82,937 Listings From a Legacy RETS Feed
Abilene Association of REALTORS®West Texasabileneaor.com
- 82,937listings synced
- 64 minutesfull sync
- 0errors
- MLS feed
- NTREIS — legacy RETS
- Member data
- Tangilla feed
- Member sign-in
- Clareity SSO (MLS credentials)
- Front end
- Nuxt
The situation
Abilene’s previous website was a GrowthZone build. The membership side of their operation wasn’t the problem — the public website was.
What we built
Live MLS & Open Houses
Property search with live MLS listings and open houses
Member & Office Directory
Directories for REALTORS®, brokerages and affiliates
Clareity SSO Integration
Member resources behind Clareity single sign-on — members use their existing MLS credentials
Unified Event Calendar
Events and classes in one calendar
News, Stats & Benefits
Association news, stats and member benefits
The hard part
Abilene’s MLS runs on RETS — a data standard that was formally retired years ago and is still in widespread use.
Working with it meant digest authentication, session-based transport, and a compact record format unlike anything modern. The documented login endpoint no longer resolves, so you have to know the working one. The server reports modification timestamps in US Central with no offset, which will silently break an incremental sync if you assume UTC. Record payloads contain XML entities that need decoding.
None of that appears in a specification. All of it is what “we still use RETS” means in practice.
The first full sync brought across 82,937 listings with zero errors in 64 minutes, along with nearly two million photo references and open house data on 4,943 properties.
Migration
Before cutover we crawled and archived the entire existing site — every page, document and link — and mapped the old addresses to their new homes so bookmarks, newsletter links and search results kept working. After launch we re-crawled and checked every link and asset.
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