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The Realtor® Association of Northwestern Wisconsin (RANWW) and MLS have just announced that their agent members will now be allowed to have IDX solutions on their websites. This will require broker authorization and the completion of the appropriate licensing paperwork. This is great news for all members of the RANWW! Please contact us for more details about this MLS and IDX.

The East Bay Regional Data, Inc. on Monday, May 5th, will be extending the size of their remarks fields from 255 to 512 characters for the Mobile Homes, Residential Income and Lease Rental-type listings.

All REW clients will automatically receive this upgrade and should see this change sometime after May 5th.

The Garden State MLS has informed all IDX FTP Providers, such as Real Estate Webmasters, of an upgrade to their IDX data feed to include more data and more frequent updates. The new data totals more than 180 new fields across all property types including:

• Amenities
• Flooring
• Handicap Modified
• Parking Spaces
• Pets Allowed
• Roof
• Siding
• to name a few...

If you would like more details on this exciting development and how it might affect a current or potential IDX project, please contact us!

Whereas in the past the Austin Board of Realtor has only permitted the display of active property listings in their IDX, they have recently changed their IDX display rules to include guidelines for the display of SOLD information. This includes SOLD listings, comparables, and statistical information derived from SOLD listings obtained from their IDX data feed. The details of the new rules are as follows:

CONFIDENTIALITY OF ACTRIS INFORMATION

SECTION 2. Participant and/or Subscriber may not disclose and shall use independent best efforts to protect the confidentiality of restricted fields, names, and addresses included in the MLS; provided, however, the listing Participant may use “sold” information in advertising…

After inquiring on behalf of a customer, Real Estate Webmasters has learned that the Northeast Florida Association of Realtors is currently in the planning stage of, but does not have a working solution for, syndicating their listing data through an RSS feed.

For those not familiar with RSS and syndication, any website that features the RSS acronym or the RSS logo supports the syndication of their content. This is usually for the purpose of informing people that their website is updating and often carries a snippet of information about the updated content. Some feeds carry more information than others. A content reader or aggregate website will pick up this information when it is updated and let you see only the content that has been updated.

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In their Quarterly Brokers' Update, Volume 3 September 2007, MRIS announced the ability for Brokers to display all and agents to display their own Sold Listings from the RETS data feed on their websites. There are a few rules as I will transcribe the full announcement:

"Listings Available for Display on Broker Web Sites

We all know that the Internet has changed the way we do business Information that once was only available through printed MLS books is now widely available to the public online on numerous Web sites, The information that appears on these sites, especially SOLD information, isn't always the most accurate or up to date, and that can be detrimental.

The MRIS Board of Directors has approved the display of SOLD listing information on… Read Full Post

The Memphis Area Association of Realtors(R), in an attempt to reduce the overall over-utilization of their RETS server, has started to limit the RETS record returns over the last week.

For details on how this might affect your IDX or if you are interested in getting an IDX from the Memphis Area Association of Realtors, contact Real Estate Webmasters. Read Full Post

The SunshineMLS, which includes the Naples Area Board of Realtors® and the Bonita-Estero Board of Realtors®, is updating their with new metadata on October 9th, 2007. Their notice was as follows:

To all FTP/RETS users:

Please note that SunshineMLS will implement the following metadata changes on 10/9/2007:

Residential (RES) Property Class:

METADATA-LOOKUP_TYPE

-       The "City" lookup type will have additional values (all Florida cities being added to the list)

Lot and Land (LOT) Property Class:

METADATA-LOOKUP_TYPE

-       The "City" lookup type will have additional values (all Florida cities being added to the list)

Residential Income (RIN) Property Class:

METADATA-LOOKUP_TYPE

-       The "City" lookup type will have additional…