In addition to User ID and Password based security, RETS uses a standard form of encryption known as MD5.

Standards efforts do not always include a description of how to transmit data. RETS defines both how to describe the data and how to transmit the data.

By doing so, RETS was able to be more rapidly deployed and used than has been the case in many other standards efforts to date.











This web demo of Avantia's RETS Reference Implementation always provides your developers or vendors a view of what is happening behind the scenes, making it much easier to implement RETS for your applications.











Real estate offices may represent a single real estate broker, or there may more than one office per broker for that market. Typically, MLS's emphasize the office more than the broker as a means for sorting and searching.











Some additional agent id's include; 351481, 266123, 301209, 422223











RETS protects the user database by NOT allowing developers to directly access the data behind the RETS Server. Developers must create queries using a RETS query language called DMQL - it limits the nature of what a developer can do with the data in a database. This also allows RETS to work with databases that may not use the standard SQL database language (e.g. legacy mainframe systems at banks).

The Default Query shown on this page can be altered. Try changing the StreetName from *AVE to *ST .

Of course, no user-friendly system nowadays requires users to create such queries. Developers using RETS would typically write a client interface to hide such details.

Our goal here was to show developers how the formatting works and what happens when it is executed.











The table contains three hyperlinks for each record, shown as blue underlined text. Selecting the hyperlinks sends additional search transactions to the RETS Server. Selecting a hyperlink in "Listing Agent ID" column performs a Search Agent Transaction for the agent who's id matches the selected Listing Agent ID. Selecting a hyperlink in the "City" column performs a Search Property Transaction for all listings for the selected city. Selecting a hyperlink in the Zip column performs search for listings in the selected zip code.











Metadata is data about data. This is one of the key features that makes XML useful for creating industry standards…it can carry its own descriptions