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Stay off the Naughty List with these Smart Holiday Listing and Showing Practices

The holidays are times of hectic bustle as your buyers and sellers celebrate the season. The customary travel, family gatherings and gift giving all can have an impact on your listings and showings. Here’s how to keep your listings compliant and prepare for successful showings during this busy time. Keep an eye on the statuses...

Help NorthstarMLS Establish Industry-level Performance Benchmarks

When it comes to providing input, NorthstarMLS subscribers are simply the best at letting us know what’s going well and where we have opportunities to improve the ways we serve you. In fact, the results of last year’s survey led us to focus efforts on new products and services like MLS-Touch, the collaboration with the...

Coming Soon: Select the Desired City for Display in Your Listings with New Add/Edit Listing City Field

Historically, the NorthstarMLS Add/Edit listing input system offered only the municipality and postal city fields. The issue subscribers faced is that for some locations, municipality and postal city differ, causing the desired city to occasionally be displayed incorrectly on websites and other real estate systems when that data is pulled from the NorthstarMLS database. Consider...

Ask David: What is Front End of Choice?

NorthstarMLS offers three options for displaying and searching listings and accessing MLS tools through Front End of Choice. The three Front End of Choice options NorthstarMLS provides subscribers are Matrix, Paragon and Flexmls. These systems are all connected to the centralized NorthstarMLS database and Add/Edit listing input system. This means that all three systems produce...

Stay MLS Compliant when Offering Seller Incentives to Buyers

The approaching holidays and current higher interest rates may mean your sellers want to offer incentives to attract buyers. These Seller Incentives to Buyers offers can be included in NorthstarMLS listing remarks, but there are some compliance guidelines you must follow. What are Seller Incentives to Buyers? These are a type of incentive initiated by...

What is the NorthstarMLS SSO Dashboard? Is it the same as the redesigned NorthstarMLS.com website?

NorthstarMLS has had some major projects completed. Recently, the improved NorthstarMLS Single Sign-On process was implemented in addition to the redesigned NorthstarMLS.com. While these are two individual platforms, they work together. Here’s how: New Single Sign-On Process Single Sign-On (SSO) is the process of entering your existing credentials, which are now case sensitive, to access...

FlexMLS and Paragon Connect Free Trial Available Through 2023

NorthstarMLS is one of the first MLSs in the country to offer MLS subscribers a choice of which front-end software to use for viewing and sharing listings. You can choose to use Matrix, Flexmls or Paragon Connect and have the same access to your NorthstarMLS listings. Free Trial For the first time, both Flexmls and...

Q3 Rules Enforcement Performance Data

It’s the end of October and the year is quickly coming to an end. Here’s what NorthstarMLS Rules Enforcement Performance Data look like for Q3. They are great reminders of how to have violation-free listings that help the market perform with top efficiency! Check Your License Status Before we dive into the Rules data, remember...

The New NorthstarMLS Dashboard with an Improved Login Process is Here!

Available Thursday, October 19, 2023, our refreshed NorthstarMLS Dashboard design means you can log in with greater ease and security to a customized dashboard that suits your preferences. Use your existing NorthstarMLS credentials to access all the frequently used software and information that drives your real estate business. Your Password is Now Case Sensitive If...

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