North Texas Real Estate Information Systems, Inc. (NTREIS) has named Joey Bandemer vice president of data governance and customer experience, the MLS said in an announcement on Tuesday.

The MLS said the hire is the latest step in a broad modernization effort at NTREIS under CEO Chris Carrillo, who took the helm in June 2025. The MLS, which serves more than 53,000 subscribers in Texas and Louisiana, has been retooling its technology, compliance and data strategies as pressures mount on MLSs to prove their value and tighten governance around listing data.

Bandemer’s role and background

Bandemer will build and lead the new compliance and data governance function at NTREIS, overseeing policy development, data licensing, customer experience standards and the transition to direct compliance management from the prior association-distributed mode, according to the announcement.

Bandemer joins NTREIS from Bright MLS where he served as director of compliance and policy. Before Bright MLS, Bandemer was director of local association services at Florida Realtors, advising 51 local Realtor associations on MLS policy, governance and professional standards and leading statewide education programs. He began his MLS career at REcolorado, where he developed early expertise in compliance, policy administration and industry partnerships.

NTREIS said Bandemer joins a leadership team intentionally rebuilt over the past year.

Bandemer said he is joining an organization that “knows exactly where it is going” and that his focus will be on building the NTREIS compliance program “from the ground up.”

Compliance moves in-house

As part of the MLS’s greater modernization overhaul, the NTREIS board and shareholders voted to bring MLS compliance in-house for the first time, replacing a structure in which 13 shareholder associations shared compliance responsibilities. The new centralized program will cover the organization’s 44-county service area and is planned for a soft rollout in the fourth quarter of 2026.

“The MLS industry is being asked to prove its value in a way it has never had to before,” Carrillo said in the announcement, pointing to private listing networks, changing data economics and new technology ecosystems as immediate, not hypothetical, pressures.

Broker rewards and data sharing

Over the past year, NTREIS has also launched NTREIS Rewards, a broker incentive program in Texas and Louisiana that distributes a self-funded, seven-figure payout to brokers who contributed listing data in 2025. The program treats brokers as content creators for the MLS and returns a portion of the value their listing data generates back to them.

NTREIS additionally entered a data-sharing agreement with the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR), one of the nation’s largest real estate associations. The pact is designed to strengthen cooperative data infrastructure across Texas and expand listing coverage and business opportunities for subscribers of both organizations.

This article was generated using HousingWire Automation and reviewed by a HousingWire editor before publication.

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