Something that seems simple as defining a consistent way to count the number of bathrooms in the House that has proven to be a monumental challenge given the patchwork landscape of more than 900 multiple listing services across the u.s.
And that means real estate consumers sometimes see conflicting information on the various websites in the area, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and other real estate because the descriptors of the inconsistency of reporting, translation and screen real estate data.
Enter the Data Dictionary, a project by industry standards organization that seeks to create a common vocabulary for the field that is used to represent the data in the real estate MLSs.
Members of the Council for Real Estate standards organization, the Group has the mission to encourage the development and use of data standards in the real estate industry, will meet in April to consider the formal adoption of a Data Dictionary, and the Council wished the adoption of the terminology will quickly and widely.