Complete sets of TAAR listings are broken down into four major categories of active listings: residential (single family, SF),
vacant land (VL),
commercial (CM) and income (multi-family, MF) properties. For each type, we generate an ASCII text file with all the
listing's information, and
include several JPEG images. All files are zip compressed into a single archive. These files are sent via FTP to your server
nightly.
The text files are pipe-delimited, and the first row contains field names. Because the Paragon MLS system is extremely
dynamic, providing static codes of any kind is impractical, as these codes change frequently. Instead, we've already decoded
all the information within the flat file, doing all the translation for you.
Field names in the export are system names used by the MLS. Some of these fields are self-explanatory, but others have
cryptic names. To accomodate understanding these exports, we provide four .fields files which give a more descriptive name
for each data field and indicate whether or not the field can have multiple comma-separated values.
If any field changes are made to the MLS, those changes will be reflected in the exports. The most likely changes
are additions of new fields. Developers should NOT assume that the order or number of fields will remain consistent.