Keeping Your Website Current 

Section 17 of the NTREIS Rules and Regulations (http://www.ntreis.net/documents/MLSOnSite_1532007123651.pdf) specifies that an IDX data feed should only contain data on the Customer Full Report and Active Status.  Any listing that is no longer active (i.e. your website can display only the statues of ACT, OPT, CON, and KO) should be removed from your website.  RETS does not have a method to allows an IDX user to download the list of the data that should be removed.  This means the RETS users has to either download the entire database on every download or develop a somewhat complex method to remove the non-Active listings. 

As it is in the best interest of NTREIS and the RETS user to not have to download the entire database on every download, NTREIS is allowing the IDX user to have access to the listings that are no longer Active.  The data fields will remain the fields that are on the Customer Report.  After a download, the IDX RETS user has to only delete the non-active listings to ensure the data is in compliance.

**IMPORTANT** 

The following fields in RETS determine where and how the NTREIS listing information can be displayed:

1)      INTERNETDISPLAYYN /Allow Internet Display = “N”

Listing cannot be displayed on the Internet including an IDX Website, a Virtual Office Website (VOW), or any other Internet Website.

2)      INTERNETDISPLAYYN / Allow Internet Display = “Y”

·         Listing can be displayed on the Internet including a Virtual Office Website (VOW), Realtor.com, NTREIS Translator, etc..

·         Listing can be displayed on the Internet on an IDX Website only if

INTERNETDISPLAYYN = ‘Y’

and

INTERNETLIST_ALL contains “OMWS”

If INTERNETDISPLAYYN = “Y”, the following restrictions apply:

a)      INTERNETADDRYN / Allow Address Display  = “N” 

These fields

·         StreetNum

·         StreetNumDisplay

·         StreetDir

·         StreetDirSuffix

·         StreetName

·         StreetType

·         UnitNum

cannot be displayed on any Internet Website or Virtual Office Website.

b)     VOWCOMMYN / Allow Comments = “N”

·         The website may not collect or display comments or reviews of the listing or hyperlink to such comments or reviews.

·         A broker that is displaying the listing on their VOW can add commentary representing their professional judgment regarding the listings, values, etc.

c)      VOWAVMYN / Allow AVM = “N”

The display of an Automated Valuation Model (AVM) adjacent to the listing display is prohibited.

In short, to display a listing on an IDX website, the following conditions will have to be met:

·         INTERNETDISPLAYYN = “Y” and

·         INTERNETLIST_ALL contains “OMWS”

For additional information, please refer to this document:

http://www.ntreis.net/documents/Forms_652009141525.pdf

As a general guide, NTREIS recommends that RETS users DO NOT filter the data download based on either LISTSTATUS or INTERNETLIST_ALL.  After the data has been downloaded, you can use the values in these to fields to remove the appropriate listings. 

If you download only the listings with Active status, you will not know when a property changes Expired or Sold and to remove it from your database.  There are several ways to address this.  The simplest method may be to download all statuses, update your database and then remove any non-Active statuses. 

Updated: 5/26/2009