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Pinergy’s Map Search makes refining search results easier—have you given it a try? It’s the expandable map on Pinergy’s main Search page that lets you really narrow down properties on your client's wish list. There are a lot of ways to use it to fine-tune your searches, so we’re putting together a new live webinar that will help you navigate all Map Search has to offer. You’ll learn how to plot locations, add points of interest, and draw custom shapes to target specific neighborhoods and more, plus how to save properties to Listing Carts and Listing Watch. We’ll also cover additional search criteria, saving map searches, utilizing map layers, and attaching searches and search results to Contacts. This summer, navigate your way to your client’s ideal property with Pinergy’s Map Search! Classes begin in July: Register HERE before they fill up!

Rental Beast’s “Apply Now” tool is free for MLS PIN subscribers, and the company behind it would like to help you tap into the rental market, where every rental lead can become a future buyer. With that in mind, Rental Beast has created a webinar, “ Unlock Rental Revenue Before the Competition ,” to be held on June 12th and July 10th. You’ll learn how to find more rentals, receive monthly leads, grow long-term income, and more. Prefer quick tips instead? Check out their “ Apply Now Video Library ,” featuring helpful 1-minute videos. They’ve also released Q1 Market Report a on Boston’s rental market performance and the “ Ultimate Rental Toolkit ,” an all-in-one resource to help agents succeed during peak rental season. It includes lead scripts, listing tips, market insights, and more. The rental market is hot now—let Rental Beast help you take advantage of it!

QMI Reports Help You Spot Future MA Real Estate Trends

Have you had a chance to check out Pinergy’s new Home page on your mobile phone? We’ve made exciting changes we think you’ll appreciate. The new Home page has been designed exclusively for mobile phones, with optimized functionality like a new Quick Search and large menu tiles that can be easily rearranged to your liking. To reposition a tile, simply grab the icon in the upper-left corner of a tile and drag the tile to where you want it to be. The hamburger menu has been updated as well, providing you with consistent navigation options that are not affected by your tile arrangements. If you’re not quite ready to dive into the new Home page, you can navigate to the bottom of the hamburger menu and select “Use Responsive Home Page” to return to your familiar Home page. Select “Use Mobile Home Page” when you’re ready to switch back.

As part of our mission to provide innovative technology to our subscribers, we’ve just released a new tool to help you streamline the listing input process! With the power of AI photo analysis, you can now create listings using the new Restb.ai “AI Generate” button in Pinergy’s Listings. Clicking it allows Restb.ai to analyze listing photos to identify what rooms are present, what interior and exterior features exist, what materials are used, and more. Restb.ai labels the photos and selects identified features in the listing input form automatically, needing only manual verification once complete. For a visual overview of the process, view our instructions here . In phase 2, you also will be able to add AI-generated human-like public remarks based on your photos and listing data, saving you both time and effort. We’re confident Restb.ai’s AI technology will save agents and admins countless hours of listing input and will result in greater listing accuracy!

The Farmer’s Almanac calls for a rainier than normal Spring. That’s where MyFloodStatus comes in! MyFloodStatus offers the industry’s most complete, accurate, and insured flood zone reports, backed up by expert support. Reports can help eliminate risk of liability, reduce flood insurance premiums for homeowners, remove properties from high-risk flood zones, and increase buyer activity for low-risk properties in high-risk flood zones. MyFloodStatus Gold Membership is worth a look, too, providing up to 10 Flood Zone Determination reports per month for just $25/month. MyFloodStatus reports are discounted for MLS PIN subscribers and can be accessed via Pinergy’s listing details and Quick Links.

Pinergy’s new Options & Settings tool is live. It has an easy-to-use layout that even works well with your mobile phone. Plus, Options & Settings now lets you add your social media links to your IDX and/or VOW websites, giving visitors more ways to connect with you. Check out our Options & Settings video to see the new features in action.

An invitation to view the latest Quarterly Market Insights (QMI) reports should have just arrived (check your email’s in box or view the message HERE ). The reports graphically illustrate both Q4 single-family and condo sales data over time and can help spot trends and anticipate future market activity. We’ve also prepared year-end 2024 reports for SF and CC units and an overview of 2024 for both SF and CC . Enjoy these interactive, sharable reports and watch for next quarter’s email on QMI for more eye-opening data and our CEO Erm Grasso’s thoughts on what it might mean.

It’s time again to share with you our Annual Report on the MLS PIN Housing Market (check your email or view the invitation HERE ). This free research tool covers all 14 counties in Massachusetts, so you get information on how your county performed as well as an overview of the whole state. The report features statistics broken down by property type, price range, and bedroom count over time, plus expert analysis of the numbers, along with a forecast of where the market may be trending in 2025.

Stay ahead of the curve and gain a competitive edge by diving into the insights that matter.

It’s time again to share with you our Annual Report on the MLS PIN Housing Market, a complimentary market report we provide each year for our customers. In addition to new, pending, closed, and inventory figures, you’ll find statistics broken down by property type, price range, and bedroom count over time, plus county overviews and expert analysis of the numbers with a forecast of where the market may be trending in 2025.

We've been busy the past year improving your Pinergy experience. Check out some of the Pinergy highlights you might have missed!

Pinergy recently added “local information” options for listing details, so you and/or your Contacts can gain more insight into a listing’s immediate area. The included Local Details section displays individual location scores rating the quality of transportation, amenities, services, and other features of the area. A score will range from 0–10 and will include an explanation. For example: a property with a Cycling score of 6.1 shows that it’s “somewhat suitable for bicycle commuting and/or recreational cycling,” while another property’s Cycling score of 3.9 shows that it’s “not very suitable for bicycle commuting and/or recreational cycling.” Selecting the “i” icon for the score will explain that it “represents how suitable the area is for cycling in terms of nearby bicycle infrastructure and calm streets, as well as the number of destinations that can be reached by bicycle.” Location scores reveal a lot about a location. The “Local Info” report option controls whether you see the information, and the “Display Local Info” option (in Options & Settings’ Contact Defaults) controls whether your Contacts see the information. Use location scores to help compare home options for your buyers contemplating their next big move.

Apply Now users, select the new Applications tab in Rental Beast’s updated dashboard to view the status of your applications. (The tab appears at the top of the page when you select the Rental Beast link in a listing or sign in through the Rental Beast tool in Pinergy.) All applications and their statuses will be in view. The new tab also includes all your listings, making it easy to see which listings do (or do not) have Apply Now enabled. And you can enable Apply Now directly from the tab without needing to access the add/edit page. The Quick Apply Link (QAL) is readily available, and the QAL page has been given a sleek redesign too. Click here to see what Rental Beast has to say about these latest updates that streamline your workflow and make managing applications smoother than ever!

Q3 Real Estate by the Numbers. Get the Latest Market Data with MLS PIN's Quarterly Market Insights. 

Cloud CMA provides a simple way to share a wealth of information with a client when you’re on the go: send an email to Cloud CMA, review the report that Cloud CMA emails to you, then share the report with your client. To request a CMA, send an email to cma@cloudcma.com , type your client’s name into the subject field, type the subject property’s address into the body of the email, and send the email. Cloud CMA will create a CMA report using its Quick and Dirty (proximity only) method to find listings in the area, and you should receive an email with links to the report’s PDF and Live CMA within a minute or two. To request a Property Report or Flyer, send an email respectively to property@cloudcma.com or flyer@cloudcma.com , type your client’s name into the subject field, type either the listing’s address or MLS number into the body of the email, and send the email. For a Buyer Tour, send an email to tour@cloudcma.com , type your client’s name into the subject field, type a comma-separated list of MLS numbers into the body of the email, and send the email. There are a few things to remember with these quick reports: (1) you must email your request from the email address associated with your Cloud CMA account, (2) Cloud CMA will use your most recent report customizations, and (3) you should check your spam filter if you don’t receive emails from Cloud CMA. View our new video, A Quick CMA Using Cloud CMA , to see this excellent feature in action.

Our new “local information” feature is available in many of Pinergy’s listing detail reports and your Contacts’ automatic property matches. It can provide up-to-date and meaningful insights into a listing’s location and its population. Local Details provides information related to Transport, Amenities, Character, Education, and more. It can even map locations and then easily calculate walking or driving commutes. Local Demographics shows the area’s average incomes (for individuals and families), total population, population by age group, education, and more. Use the “Local Info” report option to show/hide this information in your detail reports. Use the “Display Local Info” setting in Contact Defaults (in Options & Settings) to show/hide this information in your Contacts’ property match details. This VIDEO will give you an overview of this excellent new feature.

Pinergy’s Options & Settings now includes two “Display Compensation” options on the Profile tab. When “Display Compensation on VOW” is selected, compensation will be displayed for all listings on your VOW website (used by your Contacts to view their property matches). When “Display Compensation on IDX and Social Media Shares” is selected, compensation will be displayed for all listings on your IDX website (used with your IDX search) and for all social media shares of your listings. By default, both options are selected, but you may unselect one or both of them (be sure to save your settings). When both “Display Compensation” options are unselected, no compensation will be displayed for any listing on your VOW or IDX websites or on social media shares of your listings. These two new options give you more flexibility to customize the way Pinergy works for you.

Were you aware that you can view statistics for your Pinergy search results BEFORE hitting “View Results”? This VIDEO shows where to find the Stats button and how to use it to give your clients quick answers on the state of the market in their area. Choosing “Stats” unlocks, well, statistics on everything—average or median list price, list price/square foot, days to offer, days on market, and more—plus it includes charts when grouping data by status. You can get stats for up to 100,000 listings at a time for a true bird’s-eye view of the market! Check out our video and put the Stats button to good use today.

In case you missed it, check out the latest Quarterly Market Insights (QMI), an interactive collection of charts and graphs presenting last quarter’s Massachusetts single-family and condo market statistics and how they stack up to previous years. As always, our CEO Erminio Grasso gave us his analysis of the data via email in late July (click HERE to access the web version now). Check out the reports and watch every quarter to help keep an eye on market data and trends.

Q2 Real Estate by the Numbers. Get the Latest Market Data with MLS PIN's Quarterly Market Insight s.

Check out Apply Now by Rental Beast, the go-to rental application and screening tool that’s a FREE member benefit for MLS PIN subscribers. Rental Beast gives you a streamlined experience: screening reports are generated within minutes whenever you need them, and as the agent, you'll stay at the center of the transaction with real-time notifications. Watch the video today and discover how Apply Now can make finding quality tenants a breeze for your business!

MLS PIN has decided to implement rule changes, even though it is still awaiting final court approval of its proposed settlement.

Now you can request earnest money deposits, rental deposits, and commission payments quickly and easily from Pinergy’s Listings Manager. Click the DepositLink button on a listing to create a new DepositLink deal for the listing. You must have a DepositLink account to use this feature (more information here). The DepositLink service (free for agents and brokers, a small transaction fee applies for buyers and renters) lets you use any device to request, send, and track earnest money deposits, rental deposits, commissions, and more—quickly and securely. This new DepositLink feature will help you move money more efficiently and make transactions a breeze.

With Listing Watch, Pinergy will watch up to 50 listings for you and will immediately text you details when their statuses change. ( This video shows how it works .) To set up text alerts, submit your mobile phone number on the Text Alerts tab in Pinergy’s Options & Settings and select “Listing Watch” under Alerts. (Once your phone number has been authorized via text messages, you’ll have the option to disable text alerts between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.) To add a listing to your Listing Watch, select the bell at the top of the listing’s details page or, in any of Pinergy’s interactive maps, at the top of the listing’s preview. To include notes with the text alerts, select the text bubble. Select “Listing Watch” in Pinergy’s navigation bar to view/manage all of your watched listings, and use Listing Watch Text Alerts to be notified immediately when a watched listing’s status has changed.

Our new local information feature is available in many of Pinergy’s listing detail reports and your Contacts’ automatic Pinergy property matches. “Local Details” provides information related to the neighborhood’s Transport, Amenities, Character, Education, and more. “Local Demographics” covers Income, Population, Housing, Education, and more. You do have the choice to unselect “Local Info” in your report options to hide the information. Select it again if you change your mind. In your Contact Defaults (in Options & Settings), select either “Yes” or “No” for the “Display Local Info” option to choose whether your Contacts will see the information.

Get neighborhood insights right from Pinergy's listing details.

Now you can learn more about a specific location and its demographics—right from a listing’s details! Pinergy’s Full Report, Public Report, Public Report-Brief, and Data View now can provide up-to-date and meaningful insights into a listing’s neighborhood and its population. Map local grocery stores, coffee shops, restaurants, public transportation stops, schools, playlots, and more and then easily calculate walking or driving commute times. Do you want to see average incomes for individuals and families in the area? How about total population and population by age group? How educated are the people in the area? In what ways do they commute? It’s all there at the bottom of the listing’s details. Your Contacts receiving automatic property matches from Pinergy can have this local information at their fingertips too, so be sure to encourage them to take advantage of this great new resource.

Now that Q2 (and the spring market) is ramping up, it’s a good time to look back on the first three months of 2024 and see how they compare with previous years’ Q1s. That’s where our “Quarterly Market Insights” (QMI) reports come in, with interactive charts, data tables, and maps comparing Q1 2024 statistics with previous years’ statistics in a user-friendly format. View the single-family and condo reports now, or check your email’s inbox for MLS PIN CEO Erminio Grasso’s insights into the data.

Want to know how your specific county performed in the first 3 months of 2024? How about your individual zip code? Then you’ll want to check out MLS PIN’s free Q1 2024 Marketwatch Report ! You’ll see your area’s statistics, graphs, and trends for single-family residential market activity, including median sales price, percent of original price received, days on market, closed sales, and more. Marketwatch reports for every quarter are accessible from mlspin.com’s News page, links to which appear in the MLS PIN Resources and Quick Links sections of Pinergy’s homepage.

Trends, information, and insights. Check out the 2024 Q1 quarterly market insights.

We're pleased to announce that DepositLink is now accessible from your listings in Pinergy's Listings Manager! Sign up for the DepositLink service (free for agents and brokers; a small transaction fee applies for buyers and renters), and your listing information will follow to DepositLink, saving you time and improving accuracy when creating DepositLink deals. Then, you can use any device to request, send, and track earnest money deposits, commission payments, rental payments, and more—quickly and securely. This new DepositLink feature will help you move money more efficiently and make transactions a more manageable experience.

Request fast, secure digital real estate payments right from your listings in Pinergy. A new feature from MLS PIN and DepositLink.

Learn more about a specific location and its demographics—right from a listing’s details. Pinergy’s Full Report, Public Report, Public Report-Brief, and Data View soon will automatically provide up-to-date and meaningful insights into a listing’s neighborhood and its population. With a quick click or tap, you’ll map local grocery stores, coffee shops, restaurants, public transportation stops, schools, playlots, and more and then easily calculate walking or driving commute times. Do you want to see average incomes for individuals and families in the area? How about total population and population by age group? How educated are the people in the area? In what ways do they commute? It all will be there at the bottom of the listing’s details. (This flyer breaks down all the information to which you’ll soon have access.) Your Contacts receiving automatic property matches from Pinergy will have all this information at their fingertips too, so be sure to encourage them to take advantage of this great new resource.

Pinergy wasn’t the only MLS PIN website to get an update this year: the Training Library at mlspin.com has been reworked so that all the videos, pre-recorded webinars, flyers, and guides are organized in support of each topic (Pinergy, Boost, Cloud CMA, and many others). We think you’ll find it easier to navigate the many learning resources offered. If you’re looking for where to begin, try selecting “New Agents Start Here!” For even more information and time-saving tips, browse all the available Pinergy online courses at our Schedule & Registration page. Our outreach team can even meet with your office—at your convenience—to deliver virtual training on Pinergy and related tools. Schedule this at our Personalized Training page on mlspin.com. We have a lot of ways for you to increase productivity and customer satisfaction, and we hope you take advantage of them to get the most out of your subscription.

It’s time again for a new set of Quarterly Market Insights (QMI) reports for Massachusetts single-family (SF) and condominium (CC) listings. In addition to the Q4 2023 (SF) and Q4 2023 (CC) quarterly reports, we’ve also created four year-end reports: the 2023 Year-End (SF) and 2023 Year-End (CC) reports and the one-page 2023 Overview (SF) and 2023 Overview (CC) reports. Whew! Detailed and interactive, you’ll find these downloadable and sharable reports are great at spotting trends to help forecast how the coming year may play out. Did the numbers match your expectations? Find out in the latest QMI reports, and watch for new QMI reports every quarter. All Quarterly Market Insights reports are available on mlspin.com under News .

Trends, information, and insights. Check out the 2023 Q4 and year-end quarterly market insights.

How did your county fare in Q4? How about your zip code? Review your local market's activity in the latest Marketwatch Report! This report shows data, graphs, and trends for single-family residential market activity, broken down by county and zip code so you can see how your specific area compares to other areas and previous years. Access the latest Marketwatch Report here , or select Marketwatch on mlspin.com’s News [ https://www.mlspin.com/news ] page or in the Quick Links or Resources sections of Pinergy's homepage.

Firm Remarks, one of the few listing fields in which identifying information is allowed, has been expanded to fit a maximum of 1,000 characters! Those 700 additional characters provide room to easily convey all the confidential remarks you wish to communicate to other agents and ensure that cooperating agents have the details they need—including names, websites, email addresses, and phone numbers—to help you sell that property.

(Shrewsbury, MA, January 2024) MLS Property Information Network, Inc. (MLS PIN) CEO Erminio Grasso has been recognized as one of the nation’s most powerful leaders in real estate by his inclusion in the annual Swanepoel Power 200 (SP200) list. This is Erm’s first appearance on the list. Erm is one of just 200 leaders recognized this year for their accomplishments and significance in the residential real estate brokerage industry. Criteria for inclusion in the Swanepoel Power 200 include the decision- making power of the individual’s position and the size, financial resources, and overall significance of the organization in the residential real estate brokerage industry. Other criteria include large initiatives the individual led or was a major contributor to, leadership activities, and more. Erm joined MLS PIN in 2022 as CEO, replacing long-serving CEO Kathy Condon, who retired that year. He brought to MLS PIN an experienced broker’s perspective, having worked for 18 years at Coldwell Banker Realty, most recently as Regional Vice President of the Boston Region, managing 15 offices and over 1,500 sales associates. A lifetime New Englander, Erm graduated from Merrimack College in North Andover with a Bachelor of Science degree. “We’re incredibly proud and moved to have our new CEO included on this prestigious list,” said MLS PIN Chief Strategy and Partnership Officer Melissa Lindberg. “Erm’s leadership and management style have steered our company well through some industry challenges over the past few years and have proved beneficial to our customers and the residential real estate brokerage industry at large.” ABOUT MLS Property Information Network, Inc. (MLS PIN) As the largest multiple listing service in New England, MLS Property Information Network, Inc. (MLS PIN) connects over 44,500 real estate professionals and millions of consumers throughout the six New England states and New York. MLS PIN’s flagship application, Pinergy, is designed and developed in-house, regularly implementing new features based on customer input. Real estate professionals gain access to more than 14,500 current on-market properties and 4.2 million off-market properties. MLS PIN provides in-person training, webinars, customer care seven days a week, and a growing list of third-party offerings. The Realtor/Broker-owned shareholder corporation is centrally located in Shrewsbury, MA. Discover more at mlspin.com . About the Swanepoel Power 200 The Swanepoel Power 200 (SP200) is the definitive ranking of residential real estate’s top leaders, produced and published annually by the Swanepoel T3 Group. To produce the report each year, they invest over 400 hours of research, hold countless internal debates, perform a deep analysis of numbers and organizational charts, and candidly question what power actually means. Leaders are evaluated based on the office they hold, the decision-making power associated with their office, the financial resources at their disposal, their organization’s industry significance and geographical reach, public announcements about imminent changes, their tenure, and their personal influence in the industry. ### If you would like more information, please call Melissa Lindberg, Chief Strategy and Partnership Officer at 508-845-1011 ext. 7121, or email her at mlindberg@mlspin.com .

As MLS PIN says goodbye to a busy 2023, we’d like to remind you of the updates we released this year to modernize and upgrade features you rely on in Pinergy. The latest Pinergy modules to get the “responsive” treatment (to work nearly identically on phones, tablets, and desktops) include Property History , the new Hot Sheets module, Public Records , and most recently, Agent/Office Rosters. In many cases, we added new features to go along with the responsive design! We also released other, brand-new Pinergy advancements this year, like the Power Search bar on every Pinergy page, a Search page dropdown menu of your ten most recent searches, and the ability to make your Search and Search Results map views full-screen. Finally, we partnered with the social media advertising service Boost, which you can access from Pinergy’s Tools, Quick Links, and Listings Manager. For more details on these updates, check out our Pinergy Highlights for 2023 flyer.

Participants and managers, you can now use Pinergy’s Office Management tool to drop agents and personal assistants from your office roster. The process is simple: navigate to Pinergy’s Tools|Office Management, select the office ID, then select the blue and red Drop Subscriber icon on an eligible subscriber (note: participants, managers, admins, and team IDs cannot be dropped through this function). Confirm and submit the drop request, and within 10 minutes, the subscriber will no longer be associated with that office. We hope this feature will streamline office management in Pinergy. Check out this flyer for more details. Please contact our Customer Care at support@mlspin.com with any questions.

The holidays are fast approaching, and you may be wondering if the real estate market gave us a gift in Q3. Our 3rd-quarter Quarterly Market Insights reports have the answers, with detailed year-over-year and five-year comparisons for both single-family and condominium markets in Massachusetts. The reports can be found in the News section of our corporate website as well as in the MLS PIN Resources and Quick Links sections of Pinergy’s Home page. Check them out, and watch for new reports every quarter.

Concerned about rising interest rates and low inventory? RatePlug can help by showing your buyers accurate monthly mortgage payment estimates—using ONLY your trusted lending sources—in Pinergy’s property reports. There’s no cost to MLS PIN agents or brokers; lenders pay a license fee to be displayed on listings and flyers. RatePlug notifies you of special financing options like FHA, VA, USDA, and more. Participation also includes their (new) digital and printable property flyer program. Turn “Can I afford that?” into “I CAN afford that!” by activating your free RatePlug account at rateplug.com and then checking the RatePlug box on your listing details in Pinergy.

Search, Hot Sheets, and Public Records now feature “auto-count.” When you pause while typing into any search field, the match count for your search criteria will update automatically. You don’t need to select Count or another field: the count simply updates. This may sound like a small thing, but it makes searching in Pinergy easier and more efficient since you can compare match counts for different values without leaving the field.

Pinergy’s Agent/Office Rosters module is now responsive, so it will adjust automatically to fit the display of your desktop or mobile device. Additionally, the updated module is easier to read and navigate, with many features being just a click or tap away. In the Office Details view, for example, select the address to map the office’s location, or select “Current Listing(s)” to view the office’s inventory. Select an envelope icon to email an agent, select a camera icon to view an agent’s photo, and (from your smartphone) call the office or any specific agent simply by tapping the appropriate icon or phone number. Of course, you also can select an agent’s name to view the Agent Details. Looking to print labels? The Find Agents and Find Offices results can be sorted by columns, and they each include a Download option that can be very useful for mail merges.

The Training Library at mlspin.com has been reworked to make it easier to navigate the many learning resources it encompasses. Not sure where to begin? Try selecting “New Agents Start Here!” or “New Broker Owners/Managers Start Here!” and follow the list. Selecting the Pinergy tile will group by topic all relevant videos, pre-recorded webinars, flyers, and guides. Learn Cloud CMA, Boost, and other third-party products by selecting their tiles. The Training Library has a lot to offer, and now all that content is easier to find. Visit mlspin.com’s Training Library for tips, information, and answers designed to help increase productivity (and profits!).