My State MLS Founder and President Dawn Pfaff has been named a winner of the Connect Media 2021 Women in Real Estate award, Florida region. The year 2021 marks the fifth consecutive year that Connect Commercial Real Estate has honored women whose talent, drive, leadership and fresh ideas have helped them succeed and become influential in commercial real estate.
The award spotlights women in a wide range of sectors and roles, from brokers to attorneys and C-suite executives. Women from each of the regions to which Connect Media provides daily news were awarded: Florida and the Gulf Coast; Washington, D.C.; California, Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, Phoenix and the Southwest, Texas, Chicago and the Midwest, Boston and New England, New York and Tri-State, and Atlanta and the Southeast, in addition to national honorees. Connect Media received more than 500 submissions for the awards from across the U.S.
Connect Media announced the honorees during the week of Oct. 18 on its different channels to its national audience of more than 150,000 commercial real estate executives.
“Winning the Connect Media 2021 Women in Real Estate award for the Florida region is a great honor,” said Pfaff. “I pride myself on being a source of information and innovation for the commercial real estate industry, and being at the forefront of the future of this industry.”
Pfaff is a technology entrepreneur who has been involved in the real estate industry for the past 20 years from nearly every angle possible. She is an appraiser, agent, broker, dealer for manufactured housing, licensed instructor to teach continuing education and investor. She founded My State MLS to fill a void in the market and offer agents and brokers their own statewide MLS, featuring streamlined listing options, ownership of data and a variety of enhanced tools to fit their unique needs.
Today, My State MLS covers all 50 states and Puerto Rico with more than 50,000 members, making it one of the largest MLS platforms in the country. The technology platform now offers a full suite of custom solutions, educational services, webinars, and serves as a resource for its members and real estate professionals across the industry.
Pfaff is consistently looking for new ways to expand or improve My State MLS’ software and services to its members. In 2021, she and My State MLS partnered with Brevitas, an industry-leading syndication platform for commercial listings. Also in 2021, Pfaff and My State MLS adopted what3words, a free app that makes it easier to guide users to an exact location. Mostly recently, Pfaff and My State MLS partnered with MLS Affiliate, Inc. to create the My State MLS, MLS Affiliate program, which shares revenue with its members.
About My State MLS
In 2009, Dawn Pfaff founded NY State MLS, a full multiple listings service (MLS) serving all 62 New York counties. Born from a desire to create a common-sense MLS solution, New York’s statewide Multiple Listing Service quickly garnered agents across the state, as well as nationwide attention and demand for the company’s services. In 2015, My State MLS, the first nationwide Multiple Listing Service of its kind, was created and today it has agents in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. LA State MLS debuted in October 2020. In December 2020, Pfaff and My State MLS launched MHAuthority.com, a premier website for manufactured housing listings. In addition to its MLSs, My State MLS’s services and products have expanded to include direct feeds to all major sites (Zillow, Trulia, Homes.com, Realtor.com and ListHub), international syndication, IDX feed, branded virtual tours, access to Professional Search, website design, private MLS administration and much more. For more information visit, www.mystatemls.com.
