MLS coverage / MIAMI REALTORS
What your MIAMI license requires of your website
If you are a member of the MIAMI Association of REALTORS, your IDX and VOW license makes you and your broker responsible for what appears on your site, not your web developer. Most agents never read it. Here is what it says, clause by clause, and how each rule is built into the theme rather than left as something to remember.
The rules, and where they land on the page
| What the license requires | How it is handled |
|---|---|
| Refresh not less frequently than every twenty-four hours | Synced on a fifteen minute incremental cron. Listings are treated as stale after twelve hours, deliberately stricter than the rule, and staleness is measured on the data rather than on whether the job ran. |
| “This listing is courtesy of [firm]” on listings not held by your brokerage, in the average size font used on each listing, not smaller than the median typeface, readily visible and reasonably prominent | Rendered on both the results grid and the detail page, at the same type size as the listing data rather than shrunk into a footnote. |
| The source disclaimer, as its own element | Rendered separately from the attribution, because the rules treat them as two obligations and collapsing them into one line satisfies neither. |
| No display of the address where the seller has directed it be withheld | Read from the feed’s own opt-out flag and enforced in one place, so a single check governs every template that could leak it. |
| DMCA disclosures, takedown procedure, and a registered designated agent’s name, address, email and telephone | A compliance footer that is hard-included on every page with no filter and no template override, so no individual site can drop it. Luxeveo’s own agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Forward any takedown notice to MIAMI within twenty-four hours | A documented runbook step. It is a human obligation and we do not pretend software performs it. |
| Photographs are licensed content, for IDX display only | Listing media is never reused in marketing, never screenshotted into a portfolio, and never republished outside the site it is licensed for. |
| On termination, remove and destroy copies including backups within ten days | Why the export you receive when you leave contains your pages, your posts and your own photography, and not the MLS listings. That is not us withholding something; it is the license. |
Source. MIAMI Association of REALTORS IDX & VOW License Agreement, the version updated 14 May 2024, read in full on 22 August 2026. Summarised here in plain English. This is not legal advice, and your own agreement governs. If MIAMI revises it, this page is out of date until someone re-reads the new one.
What a MIAMI build looks like
You confirm membership and your broker agrees to sign
The agreement names the Designated REALTOR or Broker as a party, jointly and severally liable with you. Nothing starts until they are willing.
The application goes in under your name
Your membership, your brokerage, your declared domain. The feed is yours from the first form, not sublicensed to you from ours.
We build while the board reviews
The site does not wait on the feed. Pages, content and structure are built in parallel, so approval day is a switch rather than a start.
Listings switch on and the clock is met
Thirteen business days from a complete activation, in the contract, with a capped remedy if we miss it for a reason that is ours. Board approval is explicitly not one of those reasons, because it is not ours to control.
Why we are starting with MIAMI
Because it is the market we are in, and because the data economics are unusually good here: MIAMI issues its members a courtesy feed, so the listing data itself does not carry the monthly cost it does in most markets. That is a member benefit you already have, and it belongs to you rather than to a vendor reselling it back.
Planning your timeline
MIAMI feed approval runs on the board’s calendar. If you need live search running this month, tell us on the first call and we will give you a realistic date. If you are planning a rebuild and want the feed in your own name with the rules built in, this is exactly the work.