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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...

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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....

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NorthstarMLS Newsletters: Read our March 2025 Editions and Past Issues

Get the information and resources you need for your real estate business with our most recent NorthstarMLS Newsletter and NorthstarMLS Product News! March 2025 March 2025 NorthstarMLS News March 2025 Product News Past Issues 2025 February 2025 NorthstarMLS News February 2025 NorthstarMLS Product News January 2025 NorthstarMLS News January 2025 NorthstarMLS Product News 2024 November...

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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...

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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....

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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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Avoid these Late Listing Rules Violations Pitfalls

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...

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Ask David: What Search Fields are Available in the MLS System?

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...

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The Value of NorthstarMLS: A Look Back at 2024

As 2024 ends, we look back on a year that included many accomplishments and new beginnings for our industry. It’s been a journey that we are thankful to have been on with you, and we hope to continue as your trusted source for updated, accurate listing data and relevant MLS tools and resources in 2025...

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