Javier Gonazalez is a Realtor with RE/MAX working in Miami.

Every week, we ask a Miami real estate professional for their thoughts on the top three stories from the week before. This week, we spoke with Javier Gonzalez, a Realtor with RE/MAX.

Miami Agent (MA): A recent two-part article we published discussed the budding trend of brokerages pulling their listings from major syndication services, like Trulia, Zillow and realtor.com. Do you post listings on any of these sites, and if so, what is the value you see in it?

Javier Gonzalez (JG): This is a very complex question with many answers. If an agent’s brokerage views these sites as an asset, then there is very little that agent can do to “hide” these from third party sites. A good example is RE/MAX; even if I say no to Internet ads, RE/MAX International will pick up the listing (since it’s a RE/MAX listing) and once it does, it exposes it to these third party sites through aggregators. So even if I say “no,” it still means “YES.”

So, to answer your question: Even if I say no, they still show up. For the record, I see absolutely no value in providing these sites with our listings, as they are used by other Realtors to gain customers (and skirt paying MLS fees).

MA: Every quarter, Trulia’s research team releases its Bubble Watch, which monitors whether home prices are over- or undervalued. The most recent Bubble Watch showed Miami homes were still four percent overvalued. Do you agree with their assessment of the local market, and has it at all affected your business?

JG: Anyone, and I cannot stress this enough, that can “predict” what is overvalued/undervalued in our local market is mistaken – especially Trulia, Zillow or any of the so called experts, which includes me.

MA: Miami Agent published an article this week that highlighted four big things likely to impact real estate in the coming years. They were upending expectations, stagnant growth, the consequences of low interest rates and the dwindling of investor activity. In regards to Miami, what is a trend you see having a big impact in the years to come?

JG: It’s always the same thing: Economic upheaval in Latin America and those nasty little things called Hurricanes. In regards to the other four you mentioned, I’m not worried a bit.