REALTORS Association of the Muscle Shoals Area selects Huntsville, Alabama
based Real Estate Software Publisher for MLS
Eight year old Solid Earth Inc. has been selected by the Florence based Association
Huntsville, Alabama (July 17, 2006) – The MLS service operated by the REALTORS Association of the Muscle Shoals Area has today signed a three-year contract with Solid Earth to build and host their system. Solid Earth was selected at the completion of a thorough review of the MLS vendors in the market by the MLS Committee headed by Judy Young.
The addition of the Muscle Shoals area extends the already considerable LIST-IT Network coverage all the way to the Mississippi state line. Solid Earth's LIST-IT system now provides MLS services to essentially all of the state including the four largest markets of Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile and Montgomery. Huntsville is covered by the North Alabama Real Estate Information Service (NARIS), a regional Multiple Listing Service system providing services to 7 local associations. The Muscle Shoals is adjacent to the NARIS system but will not be integrated with the regional at this time.
"We have been talking to the Muscle Shoals Association for a long time," said Matt Fowler, President of Solid Earth "and we are very gratified that they have entrusted us with their MLS operation." "The addition of the Shoals will now allow consumers to search for property along the Tennessee River from from Mississippi to Georgia on the same software, it's a great step forward."
Solid Earth, Inc., publishes the LIST-IT System and MapMachine.com. LIST-IT is customized real estate inventory management and marketing support system designed for use by local Association of REALTORS. Local REALTOR Associations use Solid Earth's software to operate the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), the primary database of real estate listings and statistics in each city. Solid Earth has licensed its software under three to five year exclusive contracts to 30 such organizations in 14 states. The LIST-IT System covers approximately 6% of all REALTORS nationally including the largest markets in Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina and Kentucky. MapMachine.com is a browser based Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping service designed specifically for REALTORS. It is the foundation of the mapping system for all LIST-IT accounts and is additionally licensed to approximately 11,000 REALCOMP Online agents in Michigan.
