About the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO)
RESO is an independent, nonprofit standards body formed to develop data standards and processes that create efficiencies for all participants in real estate transactions. Our member organizations include MLSs, brokerages, REALTOR® associations and technology partners serving nearly two million real estate professionals.
RESO’s mission is to create and promote the adoption and utilization of standards that drive efficiency throughout the real estate industry. Our vision is a streamlined real estate technology industry.
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Rebecca Jensen
Chair
Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED)
Michael Wurzer
Vice-Chair
FBS
John Breault
Secretary
State-Wide MLS
Richard Renton
Treasurer
Triad MLS
Alex Lange
Class A Director
National Association of REALTORS®
Bob Evans
Class B Director
Move
Caitlin McCrory
Class D Director
Anywhere
Dan Troup
Class D Director
RE/MAX
Dave Conroy
Class A Director
National Association of REALTORS®
Greg Moore
Class C Director
Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS)
Jeff Young
Class E Director
Realtors Property Resource (RPR)
Mark Lesswing
Class B Director
Lesswing
Marty Reed
Class C Director
CRMLS
Matt Cohen
Class B Director
CoreLogic
Matt Hendricks
Class B Director
Zillow
Patrick Pichette
Class F Director
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA)
Shaun York
Class B Director
Homes.com
Shayne Fairley
Class C Director
Stellar MLS
Tom Morgan
Class C Director
Bright MLS
Vandana Vohra
Class D Director
Leading Real Estate Companies of the World
Sam DeBord
Chief Executive Officer
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Suzanne Biegenzahn
Chief Operating Officer
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Joshua Darnell
Chief Technology Officer
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Greg Sax
Director of Growth Management
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Jason Darrough
Technical Product Manager
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Brian Ohnesorgen
Membership Manager
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Claire Northrop
Marketing Manager
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Meridith Tugwell
Project Manager
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About Open Standards
Open standards organizations, like RESO, exist in most industries to ensure technology advancement. Two well-known examples are W3C, which creates the standards for the World Wide Web, and Bluetooth SIG, which creates wireless technology standards. The most powerful technology companies in the world agree to collaborate to build these standards and raise the technology foundations of all competitors.
This is why you can use the same web apps on nearly any phone and why you can connect that phone to nearly any pair of headphones. The products are built on open standards.
In real estate, RESO’s standards are created to promote that same experience: interoperability between MLS, broker, agent and consumer technology tools.
RESO Today
RESO’s standards and services have grown significantly over time.
- RESO Web API: The upgrade for real estate data transfer, replacing RETS.
- Data Dictionary: The industry’s universal language for data.
- Universal Property Identifier (UPI): A global solution for accurate property representation.
- Unique Organization Identifier (UOI): An accurate key to REALTOR® associations, MLSs and technology companies.
- Unique Licensee Identifier (ULI): An in-development standard to bring an accurate key ID for every sales licensee in the industry.
- Workgroups: RESO members collaborate to develop standards for Internet tracking, event models, payloads, interoperability, metadata and more.
- New organizations continue to join RESO and expand the positive effects of standards.
RESO’s core values align with those of open standards organizations across the globe. Our processes and products are collaborative, business-driven, transparent, innovative, open, inclusive and measurable. | RESO Bylaws
Our History
In 1999, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) joined forces with leaders in technology to explore ways to make access to MLS data easier for real estate brokers, agents and their technology partners.
In 2002, NAR created an official workgroup, which would eventually become RESO. This workgroup created the first version of the well-documented Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS).
RESO was incorporated in November 2011 as an independent, not-for-profit trade organization. Soon after, it released the industry’s Data Dictionary, followed by the RESO Web API, which replaced RETS. Over 500 MLSs have been certified on these standards.
Since 2020, RESO standards implementations have expanded outside of the U.S. including MLSs and technology companies across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.
