What an ARMLS data feed designation actually authorizes.

Everything else on this page is our reading of published policy, and counsel should treat it that way. This section is different: it is ARMLS stating its own position, quoted verbatim, in correspondence dated September 15, 2026.

Source: Kristine Buchanan, Contracts Administrator, ARMLS, September 15, 2026. The full correspondence is available to counsel on request.

The Participant's right to the feed

NAR MLS Policy Statement 8.3 obliges the MLS to deliver a data feed to a Participant or the Participant's designee:

“a data feed containing, at minimum, all active MLS listing content input into the MLS by or on behalf of the Participant and all of the Participant's off-market listing content available in the MLS system.” NAR Handbook on Multiple Listing Policy, Policy Statement 8.3

The same policy caps what the MLS may charge and expressly preserves the designee's use:

“delivery charges for the Participant's listing content shall be reasonably related to the actual costs incurred by the MLS” — and — “MLSs will not limit the use of the Participant's listing content by the Participant or the Participant's designee.” Policy Statement 8.3, including note. The feed must comply with RESO Standards per Policy Statement 7.90.

The back-office feed, and the designee

Policy Statement 8.7 governs the broader brokerage back-office feed and is explicit that a designee may receive it on the Participant's instruction:

“at the request of a participant, MLS must provide BBO Data to that participant's designee” — and the designee may use it “to facilitate the BBO Use on behalf of that participant and its affiliated subscribers.” NAR Handbook on Multiple Listing Policy, Policy Statement 8.7

BBO Use, as defined in 8.7, covers brokerage management systems, CRM and transaction management tools, and productivity tools, restricted to the firm's own staff and bona fide clients. Generating valuations for the brokerage's own subscribers and their own clients sits inside that definition.

Limits worth knowing

Policy 8.7 also provides that MLSs “may impose reasonable licensing provisions and fees”, that Participants cannot opt their listings out of the BBO feed, and that roster information use “may be further limited by participation agreements”. We have quoted the fee position for this MLS above rather than characterising it.

Nothing is payable to Truppraisal, LLC, and we do not invoice the brokerage for its agents' subscriptions. Any delivery charge is ARMLS's own and is disclosed on their form before execution. ARMLS's published schedule, as at September 15, 2026:

Source: ARMLS — Data Feeds & Vendor Info, checked September 15, 2026. Confirm current figures with ARMLS — they set them, not us. Vendor intake — buying the data in our own name rather than as the brokerage's Consultant — is the route we are not taking, and is why this is a request to the brokerage rather than an invoice to ARMLS. It typically runs $1,000–$1,500 per product, per month; that figure is our own estimate of market pricing, not an ARMLS published rate.

1. Back-office only. The data computes automated valuations. No public display of listing content and no external distribution of the underlying data — only the computed valuation reaches a consumer.
2. Confined to this brokerage. Comparable search, address lookup and market data are restricted at the software level to the feed belonging to the agent running the report. An account with no feed attached returns no data rather than falling back to another brokerage's licensed content.
3. Authorized subscribers only. Each agent's entitlement is recorded when it is granted — who authorized it, on what basis, and the dates access opened and closed — and can be produced to ARMLS or the brokerage on request.
4. No contact with the brokerage's clients. Reports are sent by the agent, under the agent's name, to that agent's own contacts.
5. No marketing to the brokerage's agents. The feed contains roster data. We do not use it to solicit the brokerage's licensees.
6. MLS rules govern. We comply with ARMLS's rules, content access policy and licence terms, and will execute any content licence or vendor agreement ARMLS requires of us.

The brokerage may withdraw the designation at any time, for any reason or none, by notifying ARMLS. ARMLS revokes the credentials and our access ends with them. No notice period, no cure period, no penalty, and no data right survives. On termination we cease use of the brokerage's MLS content and delete retained copies in accordance with ARMLS's own requirements.

1. Not an appraisal. Reports are automated valuations generated by software. No licensed appraiser prepares, reviews or approves any individual report, and every report states this on its face. Arizona law defines an automated valuation model separately from an appraisal. (A.R.S. § 32-3602(9))
2. The agent is the sender. Reports carry the agent's name and go to the agent's own contacts. The brokerage is not represented as the preparer.
3. Existing business relationship. The platform requires contacts to be classified before it will send to them and does not bulk-send to purchased or farmed lists, consistent with MLS one-to-one communication provisions.
4. No brokerage indemnity. Nothing here asks the brokerage to indemnify us or to take responsibility for our conduct.

The right in Policy 8.3 and 8.7 attaches to the Participant, and NAR defines a Participant as “a principal, partner, corporate officer, or branch office manager acting on behalf of a principal.” Policy 8.7 then permits the designee to use the data “on behalf of that participant and its affiliated subscribers.”

So the unit is the participation, not the office. Where a firm's licensees are all affiliated subscribers under one designated broker's participation, that one designation covers them — whether they sit in one office or twenty. Where a firm holds more than one participation (separate legal entities, or branch managers registered in their own right under Policy 7.24), each participation is its own authorization.

This is our reading of published policy, not advice on the firm's structure — which only the firm and ARMLS can confirm.

Two stages, not one. The brokerage submits ARMLS's own form — submitted through ContractSafe; ARMLS sends an email verification link first — and ARMLS then prepares a Participant Agreement for the brokerage to sign. Access is issued after that Agreement is executed. The request must be associated with an active ARMLS subscriber. ARMLS states that requests may be submitted by the subscriber or their consultant, so the brokerage need not navigate the form itself if it would rather we prepared it for signature.

Confirmed directly by ARMLS on September 15, 2026. Counsel should expect the Agreement; it is ARMLS's instrument, not ours, and we are not a party to it.

1. Open the ARMLS data feeds page and click Submit Broker Feed Intake Form. ARMLS emails a verification link.
2. Choose Back-Office (BBO) as the feed type.
3. Name Truppraisal, LLC as the brokerage's Consultant and as technical contact, using the block below.
4. ARMLS reviews the request and then prepares the applicable Participant Agreement for the brokerage's signature. The intake form is the request; the Agreement is the instrument.
5. Data access is issued once that Agreement is fully executed and any applicable billing requirements are completed.
6. ARMLS issues credentials to the technical contact, so the key should not need to pass through the brokerage at all. If it arrives with the brokerage instead, forward it to feeds@truppraisal.com.

Paste this into the vendor fields:

Vendor / designee:  Truppraisal, LLC
Product:            Truppraisal — automated valuation reports
Feed type:          Back-Office (BBO), RESO Web API
Technical contact:  feeds@truppraisal.com
Website:            https://truppraisal.com
Use:                Comparable selection and automated valuation for the
                    brokerage's own subscribers and their clients.
                    Internal use only. No resale or redistribution.

Who handles the key. Not the brokerage's IT people. ARMLS issues the credentials, and because we are named as technical contact on the form they should come to us directly rather than to the brokerage. ARMLS's own desks, if the brokerage or counsel would rather ask them than us:

Where counsel prefers a direct instrument between the brokerage and Truppraisal, LLC, a one-page Broker Data Authorization mirroring the terms above is available on request. It is not a precondition.