Congratulations to Brad Bjelke, CEO of UtahRealEstate.com, on being recognized as one of the 200 most influential and respected leaders in the real estate industry by T3 Sixty. T3 Sixty is one of the most trusted advisors in real estate, and this marks Brad’s 4th year in a row to be ranked on their Power 200 list.
Congratulations to Brad Bjelke, CEO of UtahRealEstate.com, for being elected to serve a three-year term on The Council of Multiple Listing Services (CMLS) Board of Directors. This will be the second three-year term that Bjelke has been elected to serve on the board.
CMLS is an association of over 228 Multiple Listing Services, serving over 1.7 million subscribers across the nation. Bjelke has been heavily involved with CMLS in the last 5 years. He and his staff hosted CMLS’s annual conference in Salt Lake City in 2019 while serving his previous term. He was also Chair of the Board in 2020 and won the CMLS Shuttleworth MLS Executive of the Year Award in 2022 for his outstanding leadership in the MLS industry.
Directors are elected by the general membership of CMLS. Bjelke will assume his role as CMLS Director on January 1, 2023.
UtahRealEstate.com’s (“URE”) MLS platform steps into the future with its new partnership with Restb.ai, the leading image recognition AI software in the real estate industry, to provide computer vision solutions to its listing software.
“Restb.ai has a number of intelligent products that allow us to move into the future,” said Brad Bjelke, CEO of UtahRealEstate.com. “What was once science fiction is now becoming reality as our MLS will have the ability to “read” photos and recognize the room type, the materials used in the construction, and the types of appliances and objects presented. With our in-house development team, we are excited to use these tools to create features that no MLS has done before.”
UtahRealEstate.com had a very successful open house on October 20th in St. George to meet with our more than 500+ members in the area. We showcased our products, met with brokers and agents, and showed off the power of the URE platform and our services.
Real Estate News just featured an article on Brad Bjelke, the award-winning CEO of UtahRealEstate.com. In the article, Brad gives his opinion on MLS consolidation as well as opportunities that will arise in the current economic landscape.
Congratulations to our CEO, Brad Bjelke, for receiving the Shuttleworth MLS Executive of the Year Award from the Council of Multiple Listing Services (CMLS) on September 30th. Brad is the eighth recipient in the history of this award from CMLS, which has 200+ MLS organizations, and is the most prestigious award given in the MLS Industry.
The award recognizes leaders who exhibit the highest qualities of leadership within their organizations and demonstrate a dedication to excellence in building a better real estate marketplace.
Ryan Kirkham, Chair of the UtahRealEstate.com Board of Directors, said the following about Brad, “Our Board is thrilled that Brad has been awarded the 2022 Shuttleworth MLS Executive of the Year award. We’re fortunate that Brad came to Utah to lead our MLS more than seven years ago. He’s a very talented leader, hardworking, consistent, ethical, and has a high acumen for all things related to the real estate industry. We’re fortunate that he’s the CEO of UtahRealEstate.com and know that his influence is profound throughout the MLS world.”
UtahRealEstate.com recently received the Real Estate Standards Organization’s (RESO) Leading Edge Award for outstanding leadership in the advancement of real estate data standards.
RESO is an organization that creates data standards and processes to promote efficiencies for participants in real estate transactions. Its member organizations include MLSs, brokerages, REALTOR® associations, and technology partners.
UtahRealEstate.com was the first organization to achieve the RESO Data Dictionary Platinum Certification, and it was the first MLS in the country to require all of its technology partners to consume real estate data via the RESO Web API.