MLS Rules & Policies

McKean County Association of Realtors® MLS is considered a ‘sub-board’ in the Upstate New York Real Estate Information Services LLC (UNYREIS) MLS system in Rochester, NY.  Things to know:

• UNYREIS is a founding partner in the New York State Alliance of MLS’s (NYSAMLS’s).
• The NYSAMLS’s Matrix database includes listings from UNYREIS (including sub-boards of Chautauqua-Cattaraugus NY MLS and McKean County PA MLS), Central New York Information Services (CNYIS) in Syracuse, NY (including sub-boards of Cortland MLS, Jefferson Lewis MLS and Mohawk Valley MLS) and the Western New York Real Estate Information Service MLS (WNYREIS) in Buffalo, NY.

As a convenience, we’ve taken the 20+ page NYSAMLS’s rules and regs and summarized the ones that most apply to how data should be displayed in the MLS to avoid fines and be in compliance.

• View/Print Summary of NYSAMLS’s Rules (5 pages with most recent changes in red font):

  • 2021 MLS Rules Summary Eff 4-15-21 Rev 8-27-21

  View/Print Full NYSAMLS’s MLS Rules (24 pages with most recent changes in red font):

  • 2021-03-29 Alliance MLS Rules for MCAR Rev 8-2021

• Clear Cooperation Rule Effective January 2020

  • Clear Cooperation Rollout Overview for UNYREIS Rev. 2.26.20
  • Clear Cooperation Rollout QA for UNYREIS Rev. 2.26.20
  • Click here to learn more from NAR including a recorded webinar on this topic

MCAR Association Executive, Kylie O’Neill-Mullin with PAR, may be reached at
exec@mckeanmls.com or 814-476-6195 with any MCAR MLS specific issues or suspected outages.