Miscellaneous Information

Miscellaneous Information

Every night at midnight, an automated process changes the status of listings according to their expiration date. If you are accessing the data around this time, you may wish to wait until 20 or 30 minutes after midnight to access the data.
Between 2 am and 2:40 am, the RETS servers undergo a reboot. If your client allows for it, please set it to re-try.
The SELECT parameter in RETS allows you to select specific fields you may wish to download. See the RETS 1.5 Specification for information on this parameter. If you do not use the SELECT parameter, RETS will return all fields.
Every listing has a MLS Number and UID in the Property Class. The UID in each Property Class links to the TableUID in the Media class.
NTREIS MLS uses these statuses:

Status	Description
ACT	Active
CON	Active with Contingency
OPT	Active with an Option
KO	Active with a Kickout
TOM	Temporarily off the Market
PND	Pending
SLD	Sold
LSE	Leased ( for the Lease Class only)
EXP	Expired
CAN	Cancelled
WTH	Withdrawn
WS	Withdrawn Sublisting

NTREIS maintains a set of ‘test’ MLS Listings used for troubleshooting and demonstration purposes. These are not valid listings and do not always contain valid information. Some of the data in these listings can cause your RETS download to fail, or will not easily integrate into various databases. These listings are in ‘AREA = 1001’. Setting the AREA parameter to filter on AREA between 1 and 1000 will avoid this bogus will avoid these listings.

Updated: 12/14/2009