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Get the information and resources you need for your real estate business with our most recent NorthstarMLS Newsletter and NorthstarMLS Product News! April 2025 April 2025 NorthstarMLS News April 2025 Product News Past Issues 2025 March 2025 NorthstarMLS News March 2025 Product News February 2025 NorthstarMLS News February 2025 NorthstarMLS Product News January 2025 NorthstarMLS...

Ask David: How Are Map Pins and Geocodes Set for Listings in NorthstarMLS?

Accurate property location is essential in real estate — both for buyers searching via maps and for the correct display on syndicated websites. 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...

Preventing Unauthorized Access to a Property

Every month thousands of showings are scheduled in ShowingTime for properties listed in NorthstarMLS. Agents arrive at their appointed times with their buyers, conduct showings and leave at or before the end of the time they’ve reserved. While it’s easy to think this “just happens” or “is just common sense,” you’re following MLS rules to...

NAR's New Multiple Listing Options for Sellers Policy

On March 25, 2025, NAR introduced a new policy, “Multiple Listing Options for Sellers.” Designed to exist along with the  Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP), NAR set a September 30, 2025, deadline for MLS implementation. NorthstarMLS immediately engaged the RMLS Board of Directors to begin forming an implementation plan. While we are in the initial stages,...

Ask David: What is the Difference Between the Municipality, Postal City and Listing City Fields?

“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...

Got Listing Photos? Follow these Tips to Stay Compliant

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....

Ask David: How is Days on Market (DOM) Data Shown in Listings?

Days on Market (DOM), Days on Market at Most Recent List Price (PDOM), and Cumulative Days on Market (CDOM) each provide different perspectives on a property’s market exposure. How they are calculated and displayed on other cooperating websites may differ, but this is what you’ll see while accessing and managing listings in NorthstarMLS systems: DOM...

2024 Subscriber Survey Results: Thanks for All You Shared!

by Tim Dain Without real estate professionals like you who want to share standardized, accurate and current listing data with each other, NorthstarMLS would not exist. Every day we go to work with this in mind and want to make sure we are doing all we can to provide maximum value for your subscriber dollars....

Virtual Tours: Follow These 6 Tips for Compliant Listings

Since we first introduced this blog a year ago, we’ve helped 5-10 subscribers daily with requests (sent to rules@northstarmls.com) for virtual tour compliance checks in your listings. Despite this proactiveness, virtual tours continue to top the list of compliance issues with more than 800 correction notices sent in 2024 alone. So please keep sending them...

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