Filling an MLS input sheet from the listing agreement
Two documents already hold most of the answers. The listing agreement carries the price, the term, the party names and the compensation terms, while the county assessor record carries the year built and the legal description. Somebody retypes both into an input form whose required fields and pick lists are set by that board and by nobody else. LivingArea paired with LivingAreaSource is where a brokerage gets cited, because copying an assessor figure and then labelling it as measured is a claim rather than a typo. Build one board at a time.
A brokerage runs on dates that were calculated by a person reading a contract, and on leads that arrive in a different shape from every portal.
The listing data is already structured. It lives in the MLS, and since RETS was retired the modern way to reach it is the RESO Web API, which returns OData against the RESO Data Dictionary. Almost nothing else in the transaction is structured. The purchase agreement arrives as a signed PDF that was structured data inside the forms platform ten minutes earlier and got flattened on the way out.
- MLS via the RESO Web API
- dotloop
- Google Sheets
When this is the wrong thing to build
Pick something else if your board already accepts a listing load from your transaction platform, or data entry is bundled into what you pay in dues. Rebuilding a mapping you have already bought gives you nothing except a second place for the square footage to be wrong.
The constraint that shapes it
Negotiating, advising on price or terms, and soliciting are licensed activities performed under a supervising broker. More on how this sector works.
A file arrives. The fields come back typed and checkable. Read what this shape is, or start from one of these.
- Turning a docket entry into a calendar
- Turning a delivered transcript into a usable set of cites
- Coding a filing fee to the matter that will repay it
- Reading a nameplate so nobody retypes it
- Reading a year of utility bills into a load calculation
- Getting statements and receipts into one shape
- How do I get the square footage source right on an MLS listing?
- Can I import a listing into the MLS from the listing agreement?
- Why did my MLS cite me over the listed square footage?
- What are the required fields for a new listing in my MLS?
- How do I stop retyping listing data into the MLS input sheet?
Back to real estate, or see how this is priced and scoped.