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 Ira
Luntz
Ira Luntz has spent over twenty years as a nationally
recognized expert in the field of real estate information systems,
including software design and system integration. Between 1981 and 1996
Ira acted as Technical Director and Executive Vice-President of BORIS
Systems- an early MLS company of 140 employees. There, he introduced such
innovative ideas as computer stored images, listing history, integrated
property record data, and distributed MLS databases. He personally
designed two successive and successful generations of MLS software, at one
time in use by over 50% of all real estate professionals. Ira also served
a two-year term as an advisor to Ingram Micro – a large worldwide computer
reseller. During this period, Ira was the visionary and co-organizer of
the first successful real estate trade association- the MLS Industry
Roundtable. There, he spearheaded the definition and acceptance of the EDI
MLS data transaction set (TS262). Today, he serves as a Director and
President of the Real Estate Information Professionals Association (REIPA-
www.reipa.org).
In 1993, Ira was personally involved with the $15M
acquisition of BORIS by Norwest Mortgage, a $52B financial entity.
Following the acquisition, Ira co-founded Clareity Consulting in 1996.
Clareity quickly became the premier real estate information consulting
company of the 90s. Over the next three years, Ira was technical advisor
to the Ohio State Association of Realtors, an expert witness in
litigation involving intellectual property rights, and a speaker at many
statewide and national panels on such topics as public access to MLS,
mortgage lending within organized real estate, data standards, and the
future of client-server systems. Ira also consulted to many of the world's
largest MLS organizations, including the Toronto Real Estate Board
(Toronto, Canada), MLS of Northern Illinois (Chicagoland, IL), the
Metropolitan Regional Information System (Virginia, D.C. and Maryland) and
the Long Island Board of Realtors ® (Long Island, NY).
In 1999 Ira spearheaded the creation of a new
Internet MLS system with HomeSeekers.com. In a short 18 months, the
system was successfully deployed and in daily use by over 100,000
Realtors®. Between April and June of 2001, Ira also acted as the COO
for the HomeSeekers.com company. In December of that same year,
Fidelity National Information Solutions acquired the MLS assets of
HomeSeekers.com and Ira joined the new company as Senior Vice
President of Business Solutions. In 2003, Ira accepted
the position of President and CEO of an exciting new startup company-
Threewide Corporation.
Privately owned and based in West Virginia, the company specializes in
data management for MLS organizations nationwide. Following a successful
funding raise of over $3M in venture capital, Ira left the company in the
fall of 2004 to pursue new business ventures.
In early 2005, along with Scott Waggoner, Ira founded
Visient Corporation,
a privately held real estate data and technology company based in
Sarasota, Florida. Today, Visient provides web-based information
systems to real estate Brokers nationwide. Having recently
contracted with Hawaii Information Services to supply a statewide
real estate, rentals, and vacation information search system known
as
www.alohaliving.com, Visient is now moving to establish
nationwide Broker owned and operated B2C listing display websites
that capture and manage Internet leads.
In April 2007, Ira joined a Greensboro, NC real estate technology company
called Listingbook.
Listingbook provides consumer access to MLS data as authorized by MLS
members. As a premier client servicing platform, Listingbook is now
expanding their reach with recent contracts in Tampa, Ft. Meyers, Southern
California, Long Island, Minneapolis, San Diego, Jacksonville and
Connecticut. Today, Ira is their EVP in charge of technology and data
aggregation as well as the COO.
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