MLS PIN's Quarterly Market Insights Offer a Valuable Market Overview

Look for Updated Reports Every Quarter


The past few years have been historic for our industry, and our newest report, “Quarterly Market Insights,” provides insight into that history by presenting key market data over time. You can access it from Quick Links and MLS PIN Resources on the Pinergy homepage, or click HERE. You’ll find 11 interactive pages of eye-opening data, charts, graphs, and maps, most of them going back five years. We’ll update these reports every quarter, so keep an eye on your email for future notifications on these informative, valuable reports and our CEO’s analysis of what the information means for our industry.     

Print or Download MLS PIN’s Quarterly Market Insights


Great News! By popular request, we’ve added a “download” button to the Quarterly Market Insights report, between the “full screen” and “share” buttons, which will let you download and print the report. Select the new button to download the entire report as a PDF (with one slide per page) or as a zip file (containing JPG or PNG images of the slides). Bear in mind that the downloaded report will not be interactive, but you can skip any unwanted pages when you print the PDF, and you can add individual slide images to your own custom reports.

Are Your Clients Priced Out of the Market? Maybe Not! 

Watch These Down Payment Resource Webinars and Videos to See How You Can Help 


In today’s market, it’s more important than ever to educate yourself on the many programs that offer down payment and other financial assistance to your buyers. Fortunately, Down Payment Resource has you covered, with live and pre-recorded webinars aimed to make you an expert on the topic (register or view them HERE). Match your clients to homeownership programs and deliver leads right to your inbox with “Grow Your First-Time Homebuyer Business.” Learn the basics about what’s available for your buyers with “Down Payment Programs 101: What Every Agent Needs to Know.” Finally, understand some common down payment assistance obstacles—real or perceived—and how to overcome them with “Those Darn DPAs!” Remember, Down Payment Resource appears on qualified listings in Pinergy. Don’t let the lack of down payment sideline your homebuyers. See what’s available to help them, and grow your business in the process.

Renters Today, Buyers Tomorrow 

Watch This Webinar and Help Future Homebuyers with “Apply Now by Rental Beast” 


Nearly 40% of the US population is renting – in primary markets like Boston, it’s upwards of 60%! And with interest rates now at a 14-year peak, many more would-be homebuyers are turning to rentals. It’s the perfect time to reacquaint yourself with a tool you have free access to: Apply Now by Rental Beast, the lightning-fast online rental application and tenant-screening engine available directly from Pinergy. Watch this pre-recorded webinar to learn more about Apply Now, including where to access Apply Now, how it keeps you in control of transactions, how it safeguards legal compliance, and best practices for processing rental applications quickly. Rentals are often the first step toward homeownership. Whether you're a new or seasoned REALTOR®, a property manager, or a managing broker, we think you’ll find that Rental Beast makes it easier to close rental deals quickly while growing a pipeline of future homebuyers.

Have You Tried the Free Homesnap Showings in Pinergy? 

Here’s How to Get Started with This Showings Management Tool


A reminder that you have the option to schedule showings in Pinergy using the FREE Homesnap Showings management tool. Homesnap Showings lets you seamlessly schedule and manage showings with clients, and it features automated feedback and reporting, showing activity reports, optimized itineraries, smart routing, and more. To set up Homesnap Showings for your sellers’ listings, simply check the “Schedule with Homesnap Showings” box in your listing’s showing instructions, as you might do with ShowingTime. When the listing goes live, click the Set Up Showing button to manage your Homesnap Showings settings. To schedule showings for your buyer clients, look for “Schedule with Homesnap Showings” in listing details, where available. Homesnap has live and on-demand training and printable resources HERE, and the new 15-minute live Homesnap spotlight sessions are held Fridays at 1:00 p.m. (register HERE). And for a detailed look at how to use Homesnap Showings in Pinergy, check out this VIDEO. Happy showings!

"Tools" in Pinergy Has New Features and a New Look

Show, Hide, and Reposition Tools You Use the Most


Pinergy’s Tools page is now responsive and customizable! Each tool has its own tile that can be selected, repositioned, or hidden/shown. From your PC, click the “move” icon in the upper-left corner of a tile to drag-and-drop it to another position. Hover over the tile to reveal more icons. Click the “hide” icon in the upper-right corner to hide the tile (a hidden tile will have a “show” icon to un-hide the tile). Your changes are saved automatically, and they will update the Tools page for your mobile device as well. From any device, select the “more information” icon in the lower-right corner of a tile for a description of the tool, and select the Show All option in the upper-right corner of the page to display all tiles, hidden or not. Pinergy’s new, responsive Tools page is just one more way Pinergy has been improving to serve you better!

Two New Videos Available on Searching and Customizing Tools in Pinergy


We’ve just posted two new fun videos aimed at enhancing your Pinergy skills—“Searching by Address in Pinergy” and “Customizing Pinergy’s Tools Page”—and you can view them anytime. (You can find them, and other training materials, in mlspin.com’s Training Library.) “Searching by Address” covers Pinergy search techniques you might not know, like choosing multiple zip codes, street number ranges, and using the “radius” feature. “Customizing Pinergy’s Tools Page” introduces you to our redesigned Pinergy Tools page, where you can hide tools you don’t need and rearrange them for easier access to the tools you use the most. We hope these short videos improve your workflow and save time as the season (and the real estate market) changes.

In Case You Missed It: Pinergy’s Mortgage Calculator Is Now Responsive 

Looks and Works Great on Any Device 


Pinergy’s new Mortgage Calculator will adjust itself automatically to fit your display nicely. It’s accessible from listing detail reports and from Pinergy’s new Tools page. In the calculator’s Report Setup section, enter key information such as Property Price, Down Payment, Interest Rate, etc., and then choose your desired Report Options (Payment Summary, Amortization Schedule, and/or Graph of Principal Balance). Select the Calculate Payment button to generate the report. You can collapse/expand any section by selecting the chevron in the section’s upper-right corner, and you can modify your report setup and select the Recalculate Payment button for an updated report. Pinergy’s new, responsive Mortgage Calculator is easy to use and informative, and it’s available now.

Get Single-Family Statistics by County in MLS PIN’s Marketwatch Report 


MLS PIN’s Marketwatch Report is a free quarterly report for Massachusetts single-family residential market activity focusing on individual counties and zip codes (find it on the Pinergy homepage in Quick Links and in MLS PIN Resources, or view current and archived reports HERE). For each county, you’ll find year-over-year key metrics, plus a 3-year market activity graph and a historical median sales price chart for each county going all the way back to 2006. An “all counties” overview is included as well. Get it all with the Marketwatch Report.

Customize Pinergy's Data View for All Devices


As you know, Data View uses collapsible/expandable sections to display property details, market history, public record information, and more on both smartphones and “desktop.” But did you know that you can reorder the Data View sections? You can, and it’s easy to do from “desktop.” Simply click in a gray section header, drag the section to another position, and drop it there. So, for example, you could move the Public Record section from the bottom of the page and place it between the Property Details and Remarks sections at the top of the page. And Pinergy would use your customized Data View for displaying listing details on your smartphone too! So, take a few minutes to see if you might want to reorder the sections in your Data View. You always can change your mind and move them back if you’d like.

A Reminder on Double-Checking Listings for Accuracy 


Before you post a listing to MLS PIN, please double-check the listing sheet, and make sure that the List Price, Expiration Date, and all property data are accurate. You can always edit an “Offline/Partial” listing before posting; but, once you have posted the listing, the data are published to all MLS PIN subscribers for distribution to their clients. As a reminder, consistent with Sections 1.2, 1.8, 1.11, and 8.1 of the Rules and Regulations, the listing broker is responsible for ensuring accurate data input to the MLS.

Don’t Need It? Hide It! How to Customize Your Pinergy Quick Links

View as Many or as Few Quick Links as You Wish!


Quick Links provide quick, convenient access to a number of online real estate tools—right from Pinergy’s Home page. Available Quick Links include Market Reports, Marketwatch, Public Records, Quarterly Market Insights, Down Payment Resource, Homesnap Pro, MyFloodStatus, RealSatisfied, and more! Select the blue Add/Remove Items button at the bottom of your Quick Links widget, select the Quick Links you want displayed, and then select the green Save button. That’s all it takes to customize your Quick Links for time-saving access to some of the tools you use most!

Employee Spotlight

Deneen Howe, Customer Care Representative/Membership



Deneen Howe joined MLS PIN in January 2011 and will soon celebrate her 12th year with us (not unusual at MLS PIN, where we tend to stick around!). Before joining MLS PIN, she worked at Macy’s and at Bay State Transmission. Today, as a Customer Care Representative specializing in Membership, Deneen fields calls to assist brokers and managers with office type changes and subscription changes, and she assists with the Supra eKEY app and electronic lockboxes. Customer assistance and satisfaction are Deneen’s priorities. She enjoys interacting with customers, and she values the support received from other Customer Care team members. In her free time, she’s busy cooking, camping, latch hooking rugs, working out, and walking in nature, as well as spending time with her family, which will soon include a 5th grandchild! Deneen looks forward to many more years at MLS PIN, and we thank her for 12 years of caring for customers.