New Features at the NY State MLS

New Features

Welcome to the New NY State MLS. You may have noticed a change in our website. There are many new features which are designed to help our members increase leads, organize, book showings and track the effectiveness of their marketing efforts. The changes are listed below. These changes are just the beginning. State Listings, Inc and the NY State MLS is committed to providing Real Estate Agents with cutting edge marketing tools.

• Ask A Question:
  
  • This feature allows the public to ask questions about any of your active listings while viewing your public listing. When a question is asked you will receive an email from NY State MLS stating that a question has been ask, what the question is and who asked it. This new feature allows you to capture leads of shoppers who might not have otherwise contacted you about your listing because they did not want to book a showing, but now you know that they are shopping.
    
  • This feature allows members to ask questions about any of your listings. You will receive an email about the question including who asked it.
    
  • All messages/questions stay with your listings so they can be found simply by clicking on your listing.
    
• Book A Showing:
  
  • This feature allows the public to request a showing when viewing your public listing. When they book a showing they will give their name, email and/or phone number and they will request a date and time. You will then receive an email regarding the showing request. All showing requests and booked showings will stay with your listing for future reference.
    
  • This feature allows you to book showings on your listings, helping you keep track of all your showings in one place. You can book three different kinds of showings –
    
    • Co-Broke showing – another agent will show your listing to their client
      
    • Preview showing – another agent will preview your listing
      
    • Self showing – you will show your listing to your customer
      
• Open House:
  
  • This feature allows you to publish an open house for a listing. Two kinds of open houses can be scheduled –
    
    • Public Open House- Open to the public
      
    • Broker Open House – For Brokers Only
      
  • The open house feature will populate a calendar where open houses can be searched.
    
  • Scheduled open houses will show on the public listings and will be able to be searched on the calendar.
    
• Provide Feedback:
  
  • This feature allows feedback to be provided about a listing. This feature is available for the public and for other members to provide feedback. Feedback can only be seen by the listing agent.
    
  • An email will be sent to the agent that booked the showing requesting feedback. The feedback will be collected on each listing for the listing agent's use.
    
• Listing Counter:
  
  • A listing counter has been added to the main view of your listings.
    
• Auto Edit Feature:
  
  • When you click on any of your listings the edit feature is enabled for a quick edit of your listings.
    
  • A quick status change feature has been added above the listing counter.
    
• Wall:
  
  • The wall shows your active, hidden, sold and most recently changed listings. This wall allows you to most effectively manage your listings.
    
• Tabs have moved to the top:
  
  • The navigation tabs have been moved to the top with drop down menus to make more room under your profile for more tools.
    
• A Calendar Tab has been added to the top:
  
  • The calendar tab lets you view your active calendar items.
    
  • Soon an open house search tool will be added so open houses can be searched and found by county.
    
• A Message Tab has been added to the top:
  
  • The message tab contains all messages received on any of your listings in the order they were received. In this tab you can reply to messages or delete them.
    
• New tools under the profile pictures:
  
  • Quick MLS number search has been added under the profile picture.
    
• Coming December 2010:
  
  • Listing Syndication using Point2 Agent. Listing syndication will be available to our standard* and premium* members.
    

    *standard membership will be a new addition as of December 2010.
    

Search by City on NY State MLS

NY State MLS has city pages for fast properties searches by city.

These city pages will show you all listings in a particular city, with the listing agent contact information so a showing appointment can be easily obtained.

Searching for a business, real estate, REO, Foreclosure, Short Sale, Handy Man or Estate property in New York, Westbury Long Island, Albany, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh or anywhere in New York?

You can find it on www.nystatemls.com.

By now you may have heard about NY State MLS, www.nystatemls.com the new Statewide Multiple Listing Service, but you may know much about it. NY State MLS is just what its name implies, a MLS for the entire state. Real Estate Agents in New York need a way to get more exposure for their listings. Many agents need to pay for more than 1 MLS just to effectively service their sellers and buyers, and as you already know, belonging to all the necessary MLSs is cost prohibitive.

NY State MLS is not a feed from your current MLS. It is a real full service MLS with Agent Full listings and commission splits. Agents must enter their listings into the system and keep them updated, but since listing data can import from the public record, entering listings is easy. There is also a statewide property tax look-up for premium members.

The current basic membership is free and becoming a member is easy. Just log on to www.nystatemls.com, click become a member (no credit card is required to sign up). Tell your sellers that you will post their listing in the Statewide MLS, it will help when you are out on those listing appointments.

Good Luck, and we hope you sell lots of houses this year.

NY State MLS

A Full Service MLS - Not a Feed From Your Current MLS www.nystatemls.com

A Full Service MLS - Not a Feed From Your Current MLS www.nystatemls.com

Finally it's here, a State Wide MLS for New York State. With no per listing fees and a free basic membership for licensed real estate professionals.

Some of the local county wide MLSs charge a yearly fee and a per listing fee of about $10 for the listing and an additional $1 per picture, so that the average fee for a listing is $15. If your brokerage has 100 listings per year, then you pay an additional $1500 per year on top of your yearly fee, which averages about $600 per year. These fees are huge, and can be reduced by consolidation. Now that NY State MLS is here, brokers can save themselves money and expand their territory by joining and sharing their listings all in one place.

NY State MLS has lots of extras too. Like the new NY State PRO - Property Records Online - all for the same low fee of premium membership of $150 every 6 months, and still NO LISTING FEES!!!

Agents from all over the state are joining daily and entering their listings. NY State MLS is Not a feed from your current MLS, so each agent must opt-in and post their listings. Membership to the State Wide MLS is helping our members get listings and get an edge over non-members. Affiliation with the State Wide MLS is a great tool to help get listings, since home sellers want all of the exposure they can get.

Join Today

NY State MLS New Members

NY State MLS membership is growing fast, this week we welcome the following new members to our membership roster:

Patrick Flemming - Dutchess County - World Select

Marcia Murray - Sartoga County - Remax

Beth Moore - Dutchess County - ERA

Michele Cadogan - Brooklyn - Fillmore Real estate

Miriam Munzer -Orange County - Landmark Realty

Andrew Genovese - Warren County - Prudential Manor Homes

Jeffrey Landsman - Westchester County - Better Homes and Gardens - Rand RE

John Juavinette - Dutchess County - Weichert Realtors

Robin Carbone - Dutchess County - Genesis Heritage

Robert Percesepe - Dutchess County - Realty Executives

Debbie Percesepe - Dutchess County - Realty Executives

Debbie Russo - Rockland County - C-21 Grand

Rhonda DeRouchey - Ulster County - East USA Real Estate

Marty Remo - Orange County - Remo Realty

Geraldine Harper - Westchester County - Paramount Advisory Services

John LeSalva - Essex County - LaSelva Real Estate

Susan Jackowski - Ulster County - RJ Smith Realty

Cervantes Gonzalez - Suffolk County - Casa Latino

Bernadette & Jodi Gillespie - Orange County - Bernadette Gillespie, LLC

Angela Johnson - Orange County - Coldwell Banker Lazier Realty

Rita Levine - Ulster County - Rita Levine Real Estate

Jeffrey Eraca - Dutchess County - Keller Williams

Gloria Rivera - Orange County - Keller Willaism

Kristie Alexa DiFrancesco - Prudential Serls Prime Properties

Nicole Gellineau - Dutchess County - Keller Williams

Barbara Mercer - Rensselaer County - The Kinderhook Group

Cynthia Quade - Saratoga County - Signature Homes Realty

Seibert Robinson - Nassau County - Remax

Wendy Russell - Warren County - Realty USA

Sandra Gleicher - Dutchess County - ERA

Narda Questel - Dutchess County - ERA

Patricia Warren - Dutchess County - ERA

Janice Walz - Dutchess County - ERA

Janice Lipka - Dutchess County - ERA

Joanne Hargrove - Orange County - Better Homes and Gardens

Debbie Creech - Dutchess County - ERA

Our membership and listings are growing - The new State Wide listing service is catching on and now with the New PRO (state wide property records online)finding property information for your listings is even easier. Unlimited PRO look-ups are free for premium members.

About NY State MLS: A state wide multiple listing service for licensed agents and brokers across New York State. This private MLS allows for all property types, including single family residential, multi-unit, condo, coop, commercial, residential rental, commercial rental, business only, manufactured on land or on leased land (in a park).

NY State MLS introduces NY State PRO - Property Records OnLine

NY State MLS introduces NY State PRO - Property Records Online

Looking for New York State Wide Property Tax Records - at an affordable price? New York State's first Statewide Multiple Listing Service is now offering State Wide Property Tax records called NY State PRO. Need to know assessment information for a property in New York - check with the PRO. Premium members get free, unlimited access to PRO for only $150 per year (introductory offer, good for a limited time only) but signing up locks in your access to State Wide PRO - Property Records Online for a whole year. Similar services cost hundreds of dollars a month, but with this introductory offer to NY State MLS, licensed real estate professionals can gain this access for only $150 for the entire year.

And coming soon, PRO will be available on a pay per look up basis to basic members.

You must be a New York State licensed sales person, broker or appraiser to qualify for membership to NY State MLS - but PRO will soon be available as a stand alone service - so stay tuned.

***Property tax records in PRO are as per the assessors records and do not include New York City. Information provided in the PRO is not guaranteed to be accurate and is as per ORPS records. Please confirm any information in the PRO with the local assessor and taxing agency.

Free Postings For Your Listings

New York Real Estate Agents, if you are taking the time to post your real estate listings on Craigslist, Trulia, Oodle, Postlets - are you getting any response? What if you could post a searchable agent full listing for other real estate agents to see? Wouldn't that be worth a few minutes of your time?

Remember the day when you would post a listing and get showings and offers in the first week or even on the first day? Well since those days are long gone, we need to be more creative and reach more people to get our listings sold and to show our sellers that we are doing all we can to sell their property. That is why is it so important to put your listings in the most effective spot possible. The busiest agents that sell the most properties and take the most listings are putting their listings into www.nystatemls.com New York's first statewide multiple listing service offers a free trial for real estate professionals and you can post as many listings as you have.

So if you haven't tried it yet, log on today to NY State MLS at www.nystatemls.com

Search For Real Estate in Any New York County

Search For Real Estate in Any New York County

If you are looking for real estate in any county in New York State, NY State MLS is the best place to start your search. New York State's first statewide multiple listing service is growing fast and the search for real estate in any New York County from the statewide MLS is now possible by the public and the real estate professional - with fields not offered or displayed by the local or regional MLSs. For instance if you are search for a foreclosure in Columbia County, NY - you can easily check the foreclosure box and then Columbia County and you will see all the foreclosure listings available in our MLS. Also if you want to search for real estate in Dutchess County, NY you can go to our easy to navigate search page and search for real estate in Dutchess County, or you can search for real estate in Ulster County, or real estate in Albany County or any of the 62 counties in New York, including New York City.

There are also specially designed city pages. So if you want to search for real estate in Saugerties, NY or if you want to search for real estate in Schenectady, NY or anywhere in New York State then make NY State MLS your primary search. You can also search for real estate in Any city where there are listings from Staten Island, NY, New York City, Yonkers, Garrison, all the way up the Hudson Valley through Newburgh, Kingston, Red Hook, up past Albany to Saratoga and Queensbury.

NY State MLS membership is growing fast and our listing database is growing daily. Real Estate agents and Brokers that want to increase their listings exposures can join today.

Searching For Real Estate in New York Try www.nystatemls.com

Listing or Searching For Real Estate in New York Try www.nystatemls.com

NY State MLS is the new place to list or search for real estate in Dutchess County NY, Ulster Columbia, Albany, Rennselaer, Orange, Rockland, Westchester, Kings, Queens, Richmond, Nassau, Suffolk, Saratoga, Putnam, Warren, Greene, Sullivan, Schenectady, Scoharie, Delaware, Otsego, Washington, or any of the 62 counties in New York State.

NY State MLS is New York's first Multiple Listing Service that allows Real Estate Professionals a place to post listings anywhere in New York State. After an agent or broker posts their listings the public can then search for that listing on our public search site, or other agents and brokers can search for AGENT FULL listings complete with commission splits and confidential remarks.

So Real Estate professionals, if you are trying to sell a property anywhere in New York, go to www.nystatemls.com and post your listing today.

What is NY State MLS

What is NY State MLS

New York's First Statewide Multiple Listing Service for Real Estate Professionals, but it is also useful for home buyers seeking a home in New York State.

• NY State MLS is a private MLS and you must be a licensed real estate agent or broker to enter your listings.
  
• A tool for Real Estate Professionals that allows them to share their listings with agents outside of their smaller county or regional MLS.
• A place for real estate professionals to enter all your real estate listings regardless of the county or region they exist in.
• A way for Real Estate Brokers to expand their business
• Another way to advertise your real estate listings - that expands the reach of the listings
• FREE for a basic membership (currently free for 1 year) So Advertise All your listings
  
• A search engine marketing tool for the Real Estate Professional that wants links back to their website (premium membership required for this feature)
• A lead router system and public profile of real estate professionals for premium members
• Allows property types that are not normally allowed on other MLSs - Business only listings and manufactured homes on leased land are allowed as well as all of the other property types.
• NY State MLS is needed, because New York Real Estate professionals need a way to share information with agents across the state at a low cost in an easy to use system. After all your license is good to sell in the entire state.
• An easy way to search for foreclosures, bank owned, pre-foreclosures, short sales, handyman and estate sales
  

Now, for what NY State MLS is NOT:

1. NY State MLS is NOT a feed from the current MLS - many of our clients have a feed from the current MLS right on their web site and it is not our intent or intention to compete with that. Instead NY State MLS is meant to reach out to real estate professionals and give an agent full listing sheet to other real estate professionals. As for our public search that is mostly to sell the agent and their listings to the public, with a large box that brands the agent and their real estate company and web site and gives links back to the agents website.
2. NY State MLS is NOT yet a complete database - although it is growing quickly. Real Estate Professionals need to enter their listings into our database so it is not yet full, but as of this writing many real estate professionals have found it and they are entering their listings daily, so the database is filling up quickly. Many agents that have found us have seen the value of the adding their listings because they get to tell their clients that they posted them in the Statewide MLS, and they feature the listing on the home page to further bolster their listings.

Joining is fast and east, just go to www.nystatemls.com and sign up. Premium membership can be purchased easily with paypal, right from the site.

For more information on NY State MLS contact info@nystatemls.com