by RMLS Communication Department | Apr 17, 2012
Spotlight: Open Houses
By Nick Church and Mary-Frances Makichen
The National Association of Realtors® has scheduled “National Open House Weekend” for April 28 and 29. This is a great opportunity for Realtors® to showcase the amazing properties currently on the market.
This event actually started in Washington State! For years, several Washington REALTOR® Associations conducted open-house events. They were so successful that the first state-wide open house weekend was held in 2009. In 2010 the concept went national and nearly every state participated. Once again this year the National Association of REALTORS® is helping to promote this event. 2012 will be bigger and better with hundreds of thousands of open houses across the nation and currently in 13 other countries! The event has gone global.
What you may not be aware of is that many real estate websites, including our public site www.rmls.com and the National Association of Realtors® site: www.realtor.com, display open house information. This information comes directly from properly entered open house information in RMLSweb.
We know many of you are going to join in on National Open House weekend and want to remind all subscribers to get the most out of your advertising by making sure your open house information is properly entered in RMLSweb. Check out our “How to Enter an Open House on RMLSweb” tutorial for clear instructions and help.
For some quick tips on holding an open house, check out these ideas from Realtor Magazine .
by RMLS Communication Department | Mar 30, 2010
RMLS™ will no longer be printing contracts or input forms
At RMLS™, we take your feedback very seriously. Every year the Realtors on our Forms Committee review your suggestions regarding changes to the listing contracts and input forms and make recommendations to the Board of Directors. This year they have identified several changes to the forms that will be in effect April 28, including several new feature options and a new field for Energy Efficiency.
In addition, the committee and the Board of Directors carefully reviewed the declining usage of the printed input forms and decided that in order to be more responsive to the real estate market in the future, we will only be publishing the input forms electronically from now on. Printed input forms will no longer be for sale starting on April 15. The electronic forms are available in several formats on RMLSweb:
- Printable blank PDFs that you can fill in by hand. (If you use this method, you may want to purchase NCR paper from your local office supply store or EMAR so you don’t have to fill them out twice.)
- e-Forms that can be filled in on your computer and printed out.
- Print listing agreements from Listing Load.
If you prefer to have them professionally printed yourself, please email frontdesk@rmls.com for a copyright permission letter.
There will be no changes to the contracts or addendum forms at this time. However, we will not be reprinting them in the future. Starting April 15, you may purchase the printed contract pages and addendum forms at a special 2-for-1 rate while supplies last.
More information about the specific field and feature changes will be available shortly. Stay tuned!
by RMLS Communication Department | Mar 29, 2010
Minimal changes from previous week
When comparing the week of March 15-21 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox increased 1.0% in Washington and decreased 0.4% in Oregon.
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Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
by RMLS Communication Department | Mar 22, 2010
Up in Washington and Down in Oregon
When comparing the week of March 8-14 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox increased 1.8% in Washington and decreased 1.8% in Oregon.
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Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
by RMLS Communication Department | Feb 15, 2010
Activity drops in Oregon & Washington for first time in weeks
When comparing the week of February 1-7 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox decreased 9.3% in Washington and 1.2% in Oregon.
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Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
by RMLS Communication Department | Feb 11, 2010
New statistics menu makes spotting market trends easier
The RMLSweb statistical reports have moved from their previous location under Toolkit to a new Statistics menu on the navigation bar between Prospecting and Realtor Info.
In addition we have rewritten the Market Trends, Market Stats and Inventory reports to improve the searching and results of these reports. For example, Market Trends Report will now allow you to search up to 36 months back and will provide you with inventory accumulation and sale price percent change calculations.
Click the following links for more information about our enhancements to RMLSweb Statistics:
Statistics 101 – Establish Yourself As an Expert.
RMLSweb Statistical Calculations Definitions – The RMLS™ Guide to what statistics are captured and how they’re defined.
Want a trainer to come out to your office and demonstrate this enhanced functionality? Call your local RMLS™ office or e-mail training@rmls.com.
