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A buyer who wants a house near the edge of your market doesn’t care which MLS board holds the listing. They care about the house, the street and the drive to work. In August, the head of a large Georgia MLS said this in public.
On August 25, 2026, Real Estate News reported that First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS) and Mid-America Regional Information Systems (MARIS) had turned on a two-way connection. FMLS covers much of Georgia and serves more than 57,000 subscribers. MARIS serves over 15,000 members in Missouri and Illinois. FMLS CEO Jeremy Crawford gave the reason: “real estate clients don’t think about MLS boundaries when they’re deciding where to live, work or invest.”
Your buyers work the same way. Suppose you belong to two boards and your website shows listings from only one of them. A buyer who searches across the line between those boards sees only part of the homes they want. Your site gives them no way to find the rest, so they leave and look for those homes somewhere else.
The boards are starting to remove that line for agents. On a one-board website, the line is still there for your buyer. So what do you gain when one site shows both of your boards?
Buyers see your whole market
The FMLS and MARIS connection brings listings from both MLSs into the MLS platforms that agents already use. It doesn’t change what a buyer sees when they search your website.
Board lines are common in the Bay Area, the DC, Maryland and Virginia corridor, the North and South Carolina coast and the large Texas metros. In markets like these, a buyer’s search area can cross from one board into the next.
When your site shows both boards, your search covers the same area your buyer covers. The buyer compares homes from both boards on your domain, and the contact form they fill in is yours.
One website, one subscription, one site to maintain
Before MLS Import 7.2, the plugin held one MLS connection per site. If you wanted listings from a second board, you needed a second WordPress install and a second subscription. That meant two sites to update, two designs to keep the same, two sets of contact forms and two bills. From your clients’ side, it was still one business.
The 7.2 changelog on WordPress.org puts the change in one line: “you are no longer limited to a single MLS.” Both boards now import into the same WordPress install. Every listing sits on one domain, uses one design and sends inquiries through one set of forms. You keep one MLS Import account, and you maintain one site.
Room to grow into a neighboring board
FMLS has more than one partner. Real Estate News notes that earlier this year it set up a three-way agreement with Greater Chattanooga Realtors and ValleyMLS. Before that, it signed deals with MLSs in neighboring Alabama and in other U.S. regions.
Your brokerage can grow in the same direction. When you join a neighboring board, you add that board to the site you already have. You still need approved credentials from the new board. But you don’t build a new site, and the listings from your first board stay where they are.
Your existing import tasks keep running. You create new tasks for the new board, and their filters use that board’s own city, status and property type values.
The same house is shown once
When two boards carry the same property, a site that imports both boards could show that house twice in one search.
MLS Import 7.2 shows the house once. It matches the two listings by street address, unit and city. You put your MLS connections in order, and the site shows the copy from the connection that is higher in the list. The other copy is hidden. The changelog says: “Hidden never means deleted.” If the shown copy is removed or unpublished, the hidden copy comes back automatically.
So you decide which board’s version of the listing your buyers see. The house stays on your site as long as one of the two boards still has it.
One broken feed does not stop the other
MLS credentials expire, and data providers sometimes go down. Putting two boards on one site doesn’t tie them together when something breaks. According to the 7.2 changelog, “only that connection’s tasks pause,” and the tasks on your other MLS keep importing on the same hourly run.
The daily cleanup also runs per connection. If the plugin can’t read one feed, it skips that feed’s cleanup for the day and deletes nothing.
A Connections tab lists each MLS with its status and the time of its last test. You see which board has the problem. Your buyers keep seeing updated listings from the board that still works.
MLS Import 7.2 puts both boards on one site
MLS Import 7.2 was released on September 10, 2026. You connect more than one MLS to one WordPress site. Each connection keeps its own credentials, its own field mapping and its own sync settings. How many MLS connections you can add depends on your plan.
If you already run MLS Import with one board, you have nothing to set up again. When you update, your current MLS becomes connection one, and you don’t re-enter or re-import anything.
You should know two limits. Multi-MLS works when listings are imported into WordPress, in standalone mode and with WpResidence, WpEstate, Houzez and Real Homes. It doesn’t work in the live “store nothing” mode. Also, each import task belongs to one MLS. One task can’t import from two boards, and you can’t move a task to another MLS after you save it.
The launch article walks through the setup step by step. The full list of changes is in the 7.2 changelog.
