One of the sectors which is ripe for disruption is the real estate industry. In the US for instance, a handful of historic and very powerful players operate what is known as MLS, or Multiple Listing Services, and hold unofficial monopolies on residential and commercial real estate listings. Brokers, who depend on these listing services to sell properties, agree that their incumbent positions have created a situation where fees have continued to rise, while little to no added value has been added for their users.
Stephen King and Russel McLernon join us to explain RexMLS, a decentralized Multiple Listing Service built on Ethereum and IPFS. Currently in beta, the DApp would allow brokers to list properties at a very low cost, and be accessible to international markets, something which is lacking in the current model.
Topics covered in this episode:
- The basics of MLS or Multiple Listing Services
- What is RexMLS and the problems it is trying to address
- The benefits of a decentralized MLS
- The different technical components of RexMLS
- Why they chose Ethereum and IPFS
- The user experience of RexMLS
- The product’s roll-out phases
- How users are incentivized to participate in the system
- The RexDex token exchange and the token injection model
- RexMLS’s governance model
Episode links:
This episode is hosted by Meher Roy and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/145
