Concerned,They don't care about the statistics. Honestly I don't think they even entered their mind in the decision.It is in-house data only provided to the agent, and brokerages. Before there were Multiple Listing Services every brokerage had their own listings and you could only buy a home they listed through them. Since the advent of the Multiple Listing Service the brokerages have agreed to share the data and information with other brokerages and provide a co-op fee to the other brokerage should they bring a buyer to the listing brokerage.Many MLS Systems won't even allow the inputting of a co-op without a $ or % sign. Something like I suggested above probably happened, where once the transaction was closed a buyer's agent received a check for $3. But that is just a guess.A much better approach would have been to issue a fine to all agents not clarifying the $ or % on their listings for each day it wasn't corrected.Instead the Draconian approach was used creating havoc and chaos.There isn't anyway the Tucson MLS cares about the statistic or statistical reporting. This is just one small nuisance to them in the day to day workings of the MLS. I say that because of they did care they wouldn't be so cavalier in their approach to the numbers. More often than not the statistics are not in their favor, but they don't seem to care.And you have to remember the context in which these reports are issued. They only contain data from inside the MLS system. Therefore, it isn't all of the Tucson Housing Market, or Tucson's New Construction, it is just the Tucson MLS data used for the basis of their reports.I just try and make some sense of it each month and do my best to keep the apples to apples comparisons so everyone interested can get a snapshot of what the market it like.In a city the size of Tucson even the report as a whole needs to be broken down into areas since some areas have a 4 month supply of homes and some a 15 month supply. The old saying, All real estate is Local should probably be revised to All Real Estate is Hyper-local .

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