MRED CEO At The Center Of Listings Distribution Debate

LISLE, Ill. - July 9, 2013 - PRLog -- Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) (http://www.mredllc.com/), Chicagoland’s multiple listing service (MLS), has announced that its CEO, Russ Bergeron (http://www.mredllc.com/comms/resources/Russ%20Bergeron%20Full%20Bio.pdf), will be featured as a panel member at the 2013 Inman Real Estate Connect Conference (http://www.inman.com/connect/real-estate-connect-sf-2013/) in San Francisco.  MRED has also been selected as a finalist for an Inman News Innovator Award (http://www.inman.com/2013/07/03/introducing-2013-innovator-awards-finalists/) in the MLS/Real Estate Trade Association category.

This year’s conference is taking place July 10^th through 12^th at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco.  Bergeron will be participating in a panel discussion on Thursday, July 11^th, titled “Ringleading at the Syndication Circus: Not Just Another Syndication Panel”.  Discussion will ensue regarding the proliferation of listings on the Internet, and if the MLS can be positioned as the definitive listings caretaker.  

Bergeron will be joined on the panel by other real estate industry notables such as Chris Crocker of Zillow, Jon Coile from Champion Realty, Andy Woolley of Homes.com, Luke Glass from ListHub, and David Charron of MRIS.

“Real Estate Connect is known for stirring up controversy,” said MRED CEO Russ Bergeron (http://www.mredllc.com/comms/resources/Russ%20Bergeron%20...).  “The pros and cons of listing syndication have been debated for years. Our goal is try to shake things up a bit in an attempt to refocus everyone as to why we are all in this business.”

About MRED
Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) (http://www.mredllc.com/) is the real estate data aggregator and distributor providing the Chicagoland multiple listing service (MLS) to nearly 40,000 brokers and appraisers and 8,000 offices.  MRED (http://www.mredllc.com/) serves Chicago and the surrounding “collar” counties and provides property information encompassing northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana.  MRED delivers over twenty products and services to its customers, complementing connectMLS™, the top-rated MLS system in the country per the latest WAV Group MLS Technology Survey.  For more information please visit MREDLLC.com (http://www.mredllc.com/).