Clear Cooperation Policy – All OEs Publicly Marketed MUST be Published to the MLS

Jul 29, 2022

302.2 NAR Clear Cooperation Policy, Effective May 1, 2020

a. Within one (1) business day of marketing a property to the public, the listing broker must submit the listing to the MLS for cooperation with other MLS participants. Public marketing includes, but is not limited to, flyers displayed in windows, yard signs, digital marketing on public facing websites, brokerage website displays (including IDX and VOW), digital communications marketing (email blasts, e.g.), multi-brokerage listing sharing networks, and applications available to the general public. (NAR MANDATE 8, updated 11/11/19)

b. Commercial, nonresidential, properties are not subject to this rule.

c. All residential property classes are subject to this rule, including the following: (1) residential one- to four (1-4) family homes (but not residential properties with five (5) or more units, AND (2) residential cooperative apartments, condominiums, units in a home owner’s association (HOA), townhouses, mobile homes, AND (3) residential rentals, AND (4) vacant land that is zoned only for residential development.