Property listings
Listings is under Tangilla Data + MLS in the left-hand menu. It holds the properties shown in Property Search on your website.
Listings come from your MLS feed and are managed entirely by it. Nobody types a listing in by hand, and only an Admin role can change one in the CMS at all. This is the single most common thing people expect to be able to do here, and it isn't.
Who supplies this feed
CBAR's listings come from Trestle, the Cotality (formerly CoreLogic) MLS data platform, over the RESO Web API standard. If a listing is wrong, the fix has to happen in the MLS system the listing agent uses to manage it — not here, and not by asking us. We only mirror what Trestle sends.
Why you can't edit a listing
The CMS holds a copy of the MLS's data so the website can show it, refreshed on a schedule. If editing were allowed, the change would be overwritten at the next sync and the website would disagree with the MLS in between — so the screen is deliberately locked to everyone except an Admin.
What you can see
Open a listing to check what the website has:
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| MLS ID / MLS Number | The listing's reference |
| Status | Active, Pending, Sold, Expired, Withdrawn — drives whether it shows publicly |
| Listing Type | For sale or for rent |
| Address | Street, suburb, city, state, postcode, plus map coordinates |
| Price, Bedrooms, Bathrooms, Property Type and other details | Straight from the feed |
Useful when a member calls to ask why their listing looks wrong on the site — you can see exactly what the feed sent, without needing MLS access yourself.
Map coordinates
Listings carry latitude/longitude for the map. If a listing arrives with coordinates outside Texas, the CMS automatically clears them rather than showing a pin in the wrong place — the listing still shows, just without a map marker, until the MLS sends corrected coordinates.
Open houses
Open house times aren't a separate screen — they're part of the listing record itself, in the Open Houses section, and they sync in automatically alongside the rest of the listing data. If an open house is missing, the same rule applies: check the MLS, not the CMS.
"A listing is missing from the website"
Work through these before reporting it:
- Is it in the MLS, and is its status Active? A sold or expired listing is meant to drop off.
- Has the sync run since it was listed? New listings appear at the next sync, not instantly — see Running the data syncs.
- Search for it here by MLS number. If it's in this list but not on the website, that's worth reporting. If it isn't in this list, the feed hasn't sent it and the answer is in the MLS.
That last step is the one that saves time — it splits "the website is broken" from "the feed hasn't sent it", and those need different people to fix.
Photos
Listing photos come down with the listing and are stored separately from your Media library, in a screen called Listing Media that only an Admin can open — so they never clutter the images you work with day to day. If a listing's photos are wrong, they're wrong in the MLS.
Where this appears on the website
Listings appear in Property Search at /search/properties. A Listing List or Open Houses List block on a page shows a curated selection — see Page blocks.
Related
- What's synced and what you can edit
- Running the data syncs
- Agents