Your Value as a Realtor®
Take advantage of Canopy’s resources and benefits to demonstrate your value to your clients. Share these with your office team, reminding them Canopy helps arm you with the latest technology, best practices and state of the industry.
Realtor® Resources
- Canopy’s clarification of NC REALTORS® Q&A #7 re: compensation
- Four new violations to be enforced by Canopy MLS compliance staff
- Special Edition: Open MLS, Practice Changes, NC and SC Forms FAQs will be Covered at Upcoming General Membership Meetings
- Special Edition: Practice Changes and Revised MLS Rules Take Effect TOMORROW
- Access recording from NC REALTORS® Forms Changes Discussion on July 30
- Practice Changes Taking Effect August 1: What you need to know about compensation; pending transactions; buyer agreements and required disclosures; and the NEW NC Form 715
- What to know about links, virtual tours and offers of compensation
- Canopy Town Hall Recording and Canopy MLS policy changes, effective Aug. 1, 2024 (special eHeadlines)
- Canopy Town Hall Recording – June 2024 (video)
- Practice Changes Recording – May 2024 (BIC Briefing)
- New Normal presentation by Lynn Madison, EXPO keynote speaker
- How agents can “Navigate the New Normal”, Inside the Canopy Files podcast with Lynn Madison
- 247 Reasons why it’s worth working with a Realtor®
- Consumer Resources to Share with Clients
- Dear Client letter – understanding Realtor® services
- Matrix Minute (videos)
- The Value of the Multiple Listing Service
For more resources from NAR, NC REALTORS® and SC REALTORS®, visit NAR Proposed Settlement Resources.
NAR Proposed Settlement Resources
Realtors® Add Real Value campaign
Social Media Assets for Realtors®
All Member Tools
Through our Canopy partner resources, we offer a wide variety of services to assist you in your business. A majority of these are provided to Canopy members at no additional charge. Some require subscriptions or additional fees. Canopy and our partners provide training and/or support in all of the platforms.
Canopy Dashboard
A centralized location with one-click resources to pay a bill, sign up for classes, and single sign-on access to apps including most of the tools listed on this page.
Courthouse Retrieval (CRS)
Offers covenants, conditions and restrictions for six local counties including Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Lancaster and York.
Down Payment Resource (DPR)
DPR is an award-winning, national database of more than 2,200 homeownership programs. DPR is integrated into MLS property listing data, and flags eligible for-sale properties. Learn to access marketing and business-building tools that pinpoint down payment to help buyers. Learn more about Down Payment Resource (DPR)
How do I access DPR?
Log into Canopy MLS at https://www.canopymls.com. Look for the DPR tile under the Realtor® Tools section. This will take you to the DPR homepage where you will find all of the DPR tools and resources, including your personalized Down Payment Connect link.
FastStats
- Create detailed one-page local market reports in seconds for each area covered by Canopy MLS including the Charlotte region, the Catawba region, the Asheville region, and the entire Canopy MLS area.
- Provides clean and visible maps of local housing stats in a sleek, intuitive, easy-to-use modern interface.
- Get a complete picture with reports on metrics, inventory, foreclosures and more
FOREWARN
The FOREWARN application allows an agent to gain instant insight into a prospective client using only a phone number. Verifying your prospects in FOREWARN is critical for your personal safety and efficiency and a benefit to your listing homeowners, providing an added layer of protection for their homes and families.
Learn more and get instructions for downloading and installing the FOREWARN app
Internet Data Exchange (IDX)
Canopy MLS Participants and Subscribers can display MLS active listing information on the Internet through the Internet Data Exchange Program.
ListHub Data Syndication
We have partnered with Move/ListHub to provide data syndication to more than 900 real estate channels on the internet.
Matrix Learning Lab
Discover what’s new, access a library of on-demand content, and be confident you’re getting the most out of Matrix.
MLS Touch
- Premium mobile app designed exclusively for real estate professionals
• Keeps you connected to your MLS and your clients no matter where you are
• Powerful search tools, listing and showing details, property history, and comparables.
• Hotsheet, market stats, access to Realist® tax data, parcel lines, and flood zone data
• Deeply integrated with Matrix and OneHome
• Branded client app
MLS Grid
Canopy MLS is a founding member of MLS Grid, and uses MLS Grid to license and provide access to MLS data
feeds for Participants, Subscribers and their designated technology vendors. MLS Grid simplifies data licensing and
distribution through The Power of One.
• One set of rules and display guidelines
• One standard license agreement
• MLS Grid complies with the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) from the Web API to the Data Dictionary
• Read more about how MLS Grid is Raising the Bar on MLS Data Services
RatePlug
RatePlug is integrated with Matrix and connects agents, home buyers, and loan originators. Your invited lender’s current products and rates are used to calculate affordability. By connecting with a trusted lender agents report a 15% faster contact to close when using RatePlug.
Realist Tax Search
Realist is a web-based public record service that integrates with Matrix to deliver up-to-date public
records for all counties in N.C. and S.C. (146 in total).
Realtor.com® Professional Search
- realtor.com® Pro Search (and app): This property-centric national database of more than 100 million property records is
available right at your fingertips. - Access property detail information quickly and easily, and generate effective customer reports.
- Find property valuation information from multiple sources and top selling agents in other states to refer relocating clients.
Realtors® Property Resource (RPR)
- RPR (Realtors® Property Resource) and app: RPR has more than 147 million property records that have layers of data such
as zoning, permits, and mortgage and lien data, schools and the largest database of foreclosure information in the industry. - Realtor® members also have localized MLS active and off-market data integrated.
Remine
Remine combines consumer data and property data onto a single platform that delivers more actionable intelligence to real estate agents than any other tool.
RISMedia
Members also enjoy a free RIS Media membership, a member discount at the Realtor® Store and the Canopy Real Estate Institute, can attend exclusive Canopy MLS and association events, and more.
ShowingTime
- ShowingTime is our showing service that gives you the ability to manage showings on your listings and schedule
showings for your buyers. - ShowingTime.com and the ShowingTime mobile app also track showing activity and feedback.
Statistical Analysis Module (SAM)
- SAM allows you to position yourself as a market expert.
- Use SAM to create fast and easy reports, charts and presentations about the current market.
- SAM is an interactive market analytics Web tool for custom documents.
zipForm MLS-Connect®
- We have partnered with zipLogix to make zipForm® MLS-Connect available to zipForm® Plus users.
- This allows residential listing data to be easily imported or pushed into zipForm®.