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CEO of UtahRealEstate.com, Brad Bjelke, Elected to the CMLS Board of Directors

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Brad Bjelke Elected CMLS Director

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.

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UtahRealEstate.com Partners with Restb.ai to Integrate Powerful AI Solutions in Their MLS System

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UtahRealEstate.com + Restb.ai

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.”

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Brad Bjelke, CEO of UtahRealEstate.com, Receives the Shuttleworth MLS Executive of the Year Award

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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.

Brad Bjelke, CEO of UtahRealEstate.com, Receives the Shuttleworth MLS Executive of the Year Award

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.”

Click the link below for the CMLS news article:

https://members.councilofmls.org/news/618092/Brad-Bjelke-CEO-of-UtahRealEstate.com-Named-Shuttleworth-MLS-Executive-of-the-Year.htm

UtahRealEstate.com Receives Leading Edge Award

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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.

Leading Edge RESO Award

UtahRealEstate.com partners with SkySlope Forms to provide a best-in-class digital forms solution

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Handing Key Over Signed Forms

UtahRealEstate.com agents will soon have full access to digital forms management and esignatures as a member benefit inside SkySlope Forms

SACRAMENTO, California — SkySlope, the leader in real estate transaction and brokerage software, is launching its premier forms product, SkySlope Forms and digital signature product, SkySlope DigiSign, as a benefit to members of UtahRealEstate.com. UtahRealEstate.com (“URE”) is the largest multiple listing service in Utah and one of the largest in the nation, serving approximately 96% of the REALTORS in the state.

SkySlope’s suite of products will enable URE’s agents and brokers to centralize their forms and route important real estate documents for electronic signatures. URE members will have full access to state association forms, MLS forms, and other important documents that are necessary to complete a real estate transaction in the state of Utah.

As the transaction management platform that serves over half of the top 20 largest brokerages in the nation, SkySlope is known for its 24/7 award-winning technical support and customized onboarding and training from a knowledgeable customer success team.

URE members do not need to be current SkySlope customers to access and use SkySlope Forms. They will be able to utilize a single sign-on link from the URE MLS software and navigate directly to SkySlope Forms from within the MLS, making the experience seamless and simple. Agents who currently use SkySlope’s transaction management platform will also experience a frictionless transition between their forms and file submission.

SkySlope Forms for UtahRealEstate.com members includes:

  • Data synced from the MLS to UAR Forms
  • Quick-entry fields for easy form preparation
  • Auto-updated data across all forms and templates
  • Free and unlimited signatures with SkySlope DigiSign
  • Seamless integration with SkySlope transactions for brokerages that use SkySlope transaction management

“The way Realtors work today is changing as they take on more clients, adjust to market swings, and adopt more tech,” says Buck Avey, VP of Product at SkySlope. “At SkySlope, we are driven to provide tools that make an immediate impact in our customers’ lives which is why we designed SkySlope Forms to be simple, flexible, and user-friendly. We are excited to work with UtahRealEstate.com to provide this benefit to all of its members.”

Brad Bjelke, CEO of UtahRealEstate.com commented, “We are very excited to partner with SkySlope to offer forms and e-signatures to our members. At UtahRealEstate.com, we take pride in being visionaries for our market, and we continually look for ways to provide our brokers and agents with the best tools available. We believe our partnership with SkySlope will help foster an even more efficient and vibrant real estate marketplace for real estate professionals and consumers in the state of Utah.”

SkySlope Forms is also available in select states in the U.S. and Canada and will continue launching in additional regions throughout 2022

For more information about SkySlope Forms, visit SkySlope Forms.

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About SkySlope

Established in 2011, SkySlope is a comprehensive transaction management platform for brokers, agents, auditors, and transaction coordinators to manage real estate transactions from anywhere at any time. In 2021, over 307,000 agents across 8,000 offices used SkySlope to manage 3M transactions. SkySlope provides digital transaction management and services to help agents and brokers be more efficient and compliant. From automation to integrations, SkySlope’s vision is to keep agents and brokers connected to the customer forever. For more information about SkySlope, visit SkySlope.

About UtahRealEstate.com

Founded in 1994, UtahRealEstate.com is the leading provider of real estate technology in Utah and one of the largest Multiple Listing Services in the United States. The company provides one of the top-ranked real estate websites in the state and serves approximately 19,000 real estate professionals (approximately 96% of all REALTORS® in the state of Utah) and over 8 million consumers each year.