California Regional MLS Achieves RESO Data Dictionary Platinum Certification

SAN DIMAS, California, November 9, 2015 — California Regional MLS (CRMLS) has achieved RESO's Platinum Certification, the highest level of certification offered by the Real Estate Standards Organization for its nationally standardized fields for multiple listing services.

The RESO Data Dictionary serves two main purposes. The primary purpose is to standardize the process by which data is delivered from the MLS system to users of MLS data. By standardizing MLS data delivery, RESO expects to bring improved innovation and accuracy to applications that run on MLS data via RESO's RETS (Real Estate Transaction Standard). The second purpose of the RESO Dictionary is to standardize search, display, and listing input around the RESO Dictionary.

The CRIB, or California Regional Information Base, is where the RESO Data Dictionary structure is located for CRMLS. CRMLS's CRIB is a collection of database and application systems used to gather, normalize, and distribute data for CRMLS members. CRMLS delivers its CRIB based data via a RETS service provided by Bridge Interactive Group, LLC.

Art Carter, Chief Executive Officer of CRMLS, states, "We are pleased that our efforts have awarded us the Platinum level certification. We are bringing these changes back into our CoreLogic Matrix system and will soon be adding Black Knight's Paragon system; also based on the RESO Dictionary. The RESO Dictionary standardization is an important part of our System Of Choice project as it will ensure we provide a consistent experience for our members across the MLS systems and beyond into other ancillary products. For our RETS services, it has been a pleasure working with Pace Davis and Bridge Interactive. Their ability to work with our transformation of the CRIB database was excellent."

About California Regional MLS

California Regional MLS (CRMLS) is the nation's largest and most recognized subscriber-based MLS, dedicated to servicing over 78,000+ real estate professionals from 35 Associations, 3 Boards of REALTORS®, and 1 MLS. CRMLS is the industry powerhouse and thrives on providing the most relevant products and services to its subscribers. CRMLS equips agents with high visibility through powerful, best-in-class MLS tools and abundant education options. Unsurpassed customer care approval ratings make CRMLS the trusted source for real estate professionals, and the gold standard for MLS services in California and throughout the nation. For more information, go to www.crmls.org.

About RESO

Real Estate Standards Organization, or RESO, was incorporated in November 2011 as an independent, not-for-profit trade organization that was previously a section of the National Association of REALTORS®. RESO actively develops, adopts, and implements open and accepted data standards and processes across all real estate transactions. RESO provides an environment for the development and implementation of data standards and processes that facilitates software innovation, ensures portability, eliminates redundancies, and obtains maximum efficiencies for all parties participating in real estate transactions. For more information, go to www.reso.org.

About Bridge Interactive Group, LLC

Bridge was founded in 2004 in Atlanta, GA. While initially a web design/development consulting firm, after the success of its first MLS software product, Contact, Bridge focused solely on the development of software for the real estate industry. Bridge has been developing real estate data solutions exclusively for the last 8 years, and with the addition of RealValuator®, Bridge has expanded its real estate software offerings to service MLSs, brokers/agents, builders, and financial services.