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Official AEI SponsorInnovation and Collaboration Track Sponsor
What Is the RESO Web API
and What’s in It for Me?
Troy McCasland, [email protected]@troymccas619-804-3028La Jolla, California
RESO Web API Standard
What’s in it for me?
What’s an API?
API - Application Program Interface
It’s Protocol That Defines How Computers Talk With Each Other
How All Modern Software Is Built, Sold and Distributed
Makes software Faster, Better and Cheaper
RESO Web API Pros Outweigh the Cons
RETS vs. API
Standards Make America Great!
VS
1 Language 27 Languages
We Are Under Attack & MUST Adapt or DIE
Wall Street vs. Main Street
Solution - Real Estate Standards Organization
• Data Dictionary - we speak 720 languages
• Web API - Automates Process
Why has NAR Mandated the RESO Web API?
MLSs
• Saves Time & Money• Reduces Liability• Protects Data
Apps for Agents & Brokers
• Faster, Better,
Cheaper
• Accurate Listing
Data
Consumers
Who Offers the API
Native APIs
● Corelogic - Trestle
● Flexmls - Spark API
● dynaConnection
● Rapattoni
Secondary APIs
● Zillow Bridge - Retsly
● MLS Grid
● CRMLS
● MLS Aligned
Why Aren’t More IDX Vendors Using the Web API?
• Change is Hard
• Market Didn’t Exist Until Now
• 2019 Will be the Tipping
Summary - Key Takeaways
1. Web API Creates Benefits for Everyone in the Value Chain: Consumers, Realtors, MLSs, & App Vendors
2. Contact MLS software rep and deploy their Native API or a Secondary API ASAP.
3. Encourage your vendors to get off RETS and start using the Web API. Promote vendors using the Web API.
