A Message From Jim Speer – CEO, OneKey™ MLS We are always looking for ways to help our REALTORS® do better business. This is one of the building blocks of our OneKey™ MLS brand.  Our latest effort, the OneKey™ MLS $5000 Sweepstakes, has been created to drive more visitor traffic to onekeymls.com, which will generate more leads and business opportunities for you. The more successful this marketing campaign is, the more exposure you and your listings will get.   Sweepstakes marketing is a great way to boost visitor traffic to our consumer site and in just the first two days of the campaign the number of users to our site has increased by 11% and overall visitor sessions are up 9%. We are already seeing good engagement by consumers and have received over 1,100 entries in the past 48 hours!     The sweepstakes launched on Sunday, November 1 and will run through November 30. Consumer ads promoting the sweepstakes are running throughout the month across multiple public channels and reaching consumers throughout our entire geographic region. I encourage all of you to support the promotion of the sweepstakes with your audience. Visit onekeymlsny.com/sweepstakes to download and use the marketing elements like banner ads and a marketing flyer created for our subscribers to use to interact with your consumers and have something fun to share with them. Imagine how cool it would be if one of your customers was the big prizewinner!    Thank you for supporting our work that we perform on your behalf. We are committed to your success!

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1 - The Board of Managers is working on the budget for 2021 and OneKey™ MLS Participation and Subscriber fees will be sent out sometime in December.    2 - Remember to check the information channels on Stratus and Matrix regularly when accessing the system to stay informed about OneKey™ MLS happenings and updates. For example, on the Stratus Info Center this week a notice was posted about the taxes in the town of Huntington have now been corrected by our vendor. 3 - Now you can access OneKey™MLS current monthly market reports for counties served by our 40,000 REALTORS®.  Visit: https://www.onekeymlsny.com/market-statistics – to access and download market reports to share with your customers or post on your digital and social media channels.  Reports are generated and published by the 15th of each month for the month prior.

A Word From the Chairperson of the Board of Managers - Leah Caro The idea of merging our the two largest MLS’s in New York State was to create a regional MLS that provided REALTORS® with more business opportunities by offering greater access to more listings throughout our expanded geographic footprint. More is more. However, it is up to you how you take advantage of all the benefits OneKey™ MLS offers. Albert Einstein said “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” None of us could have imagined that we would be working our way through a pandemic this year and the dramatic impact it has had on our profession, our livelihood. Moreover, it has influenced moving trends. According to the USPS, over 15.9 million people have moved in the United States during the pandemic. Therein lies our opportunity…the pandemic has caused many people to relocate, permanently and temporarily.  Your local market access became regional on March 24, 2020 putting you in a better position to serve your customer’s needs at the right time. As a OneKey™ MLS subscriber you have access to tens of thousands of listings spanning from Montauk to Manhattan and up through the Hudson Valley to the Catskill Mountains. All of these communities are now part of OneKey™ MLS and all of the listings are accessible to you via your MLS system, whether you are a Stratus or Matrix user. Just enter the location your customers/clients are interested in and help them find their next new home. I encourage all of you to take advantage of everything the new MLS offers you, which is more of everything. Greater access to more listings, more real estate professionals to cooperate with, and more products and services will help you achieve business success.

Stay Updated! Text ONEKEYMLS to 25827 to receive text alerts, updates, and important news. Visit the Help Center at onekeymlsny.com for everything REALTORS® need in one place. Join the OneKey™ Facebook Group for REALTOR® members only. This is where we will be posting updates and answering any questions that you have.