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While you’re busy helping buyers and sellers navigate the real estate marketplace, the NorthstarMLS Rules & Regulations team is busy ensuring the superior data quality you and your clients expect from NorthstarMLS listings. Late Listings Still on the Rise As we reviewed data for the first quarter of 2025 we noticed an interesting trend: Late…

With the spring market well underway, showing requests are picking up. You likely rely on ShowingTime to schedule showings for your clients to view the properties on the market. However, ShowingTime also has powerful notification and reporting tools you may not have tried that can be helpful as the season heats up. Keep in mind…

A recent Add/Edit upgrade introduces new fields and lookup capabilities you can readily put to use in your listings and see in updated forms now available on our website and coming soon to TransactionDesk. Field Additions Carport Spaces was added to Farm and Commercial/Mixed Use listings. Other Parking Spaces is now available on Multi-Family (MF)…

NorthstarMLS takes data integrity seriously, and that includes making sure the geocodes (latitude and longitude) and map pins are correct for every listing. Who’s Responsible for Map Pins? The listing agent is responsible for verifying that the map pin and coordinates are accurate before a listing goes live. This ensures the property appears in the…

“Where is the property located?” is one of the first questions agents ask when earning a new client and listing. The NorthstarMLS Add/Edit listing input system offers three Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) certified fields for identifying a property’s city. They are Municipality, Postal City, and Listing City.  Municipality The Municipality most often refers to…

We’ve had several questions lately about the NorthstarMLS Photo Policy, so let’s talk about it! Photos are a great way to showcase your listings. They provide that first impression of the property you are selling. A bad photo may prevent your audience from looking at the property—even if it is a perfect fit for them….

What are Incomplete Listings? Often mistaken for “Withheld” (a listing status we’ll address more in a moment), an Incomplete listing is essentially an unpublished draft of your listing. While not live in Add/Edit, an Incomplete listing is assigned a listing number and is visible only to you, your broker and possibly others who manage listings…

NorthstarMLS’s Add/Edit listing input system provides subscribers RESO approved fields to complete their data entry. Each MLS system that NorthstarMLS subscribers use pulls that data from Add/Edit and offers primary search fields by default when conducting a listing search. However, users can add additional fields within each MLS system and further drill down their search…

As we approach Thanksgiving, NorthstarMLS would like to thank subscribers for helping ensure data integrity in 2024. Although there are still some areas for improvement, you have been great about reaching out with questions and requests for virtual tour and remarks reviews this year. To date we’ve responded to more than 5,500 calls and emails…