Supra Lockbox Activity: Updated Through Week of January 30 – February 5

Activity rises in Washington and Oregon

When comparing the week of January 30 – February 5 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox increased 3.8% in Washington and 2.9% in Oregon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.



How to Allow Listing Edit Permission for Co-Listing Agents

Now that Co-Listing Agents can be granted permission to edit listings, agents who work in teams on a listing will have more freedom and ability to maintain the accuracy and speed of updating listings. And thankfully, it’s extremely easy for a Listing Agent or their Principal Broker to allow Co-Listing Agent permission! Just follow these simple steps:

1. Go to “Back Office,” and “Listing Load.” Go to the MISC change page in a listing, and scroll down to the Broker/Agent Data section. (Click on the image below to enlarge.)

2. A new field has been added to this section. To allow permission, select “YES” in the “Allow Edit” dropdown list.

Here are some key points to know:

  • In Listing Load, the search results will display listings whether you are the Listing Agent or the Co-Listing Agent.
  • Co-Listing Agents will only be able to edit those listings in which they are named as the Co-Listing Agent.
  • Listing Office and Co-Listing Office must share the same firm, determined by the first four characters of the broker code. (The broker code is a 6 digit code that indicates which office an agent is associated with.)
  • This will allow a Co-Listing Agent to edit: MISC, Price, Expiration Date, Area, Open House/Broker Tour information, Status, Photos, and Documents.
  • Co-Listing Agents will not be able to edit in-progress listings or CMP (comparable) changes.
  • If a Co-Listing Agent is named as the Co-Listing Agent but not granted editing permission, the Co-Listing Agent can still view Listing View Counts.
  • The “Allow Edit” dropdown list is set to “NO” by default, so a Listing Agent or Principal Broker must change it to “YES” if a Co-Listing Agent is to be given edit permission.

For an example of what a Co-Listing Agent will now see in Listing Load, click the image below. Note: In the top two listings displayed in the image, the Co-Listing Agent has been granted edit permission. In the third listing, no edit permission has been granted.

To print or save a copy of these procedures and rules for yourself, please see this help document.

As always, if you have any further questions or concerns we are here to help. You can call your local RMLS™ office or the RMLS™ Help Desk at (503) 872-8002 in the Portland Metro Area or toll-free at (877) 256-2169.



REALTOR.com Now Displays Open House Information

The information is automatically pulled from the RMLS™ system!

To more easily facilitate the ability of agents to upload Open House information to their REALTOR.com listings, RMLS™ has partnered with REALTOR.com to pull your Open House information from our system and automatically put it on all your listings on REALTOR.com. To ensure your information transfers, please be sure to add your Open House information to the RMLS™ system (for help with entering Open House information in RMLSweb, see this tutorial).

Please note: You are automatically “opted-in” to this feature, and the Open House information on RMLS™ will override Open House information entered on REALTOR.com. If you are a Showcase Listing subscriber and do not want REALTOR.com to take your Open House information from RMLS™, you will need to opt-out of this feature in your REALTOR.com control panel.

If you have any further questions, please contact REALTOR.com Customer Care at 800-878-4166 (Monday to Friday, 6 am to 5 pm Pacific time), or email CustomerCare@REALTOR.com.



Supra Lockbox Activity – Updated Through Week of October 11 – October 17

Decreases seen in both states

When comparing the week of October 11 – October 17 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox decreased 3.4% in Washington and 1.2% in Oregon.


Archive

View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.



Supra Lockbox Activity – Updated Through July 4

House Hunters Take Breaks Over Holiday Weekend

When comparing the week of June 28 – July 4 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox decreased 16.6% in Washington and 6.6% in Oregon.


Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.



Supra Lockbox Activity – Updated Through June 6

Down slightly in Washington, but up slightly in Oregon

When comparing the week of May 31 – June 6 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox decreased 2.1% in Washington and increased 2.2% in Oregon.



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Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.



All Room Features: Simplifying Searches

 

Save time using this new field in Advanced Search

Now, you have the ability to search across all rooms for a particular room feature. The recent All Room Features field addition to Advanced Search on RMLSweb will help you be much more efficient in your searching.

We know this firsthand because the Communications staff here at RMLS™ was recently working together to come up with our weekly Friday Fun Fact. We decided to see how many active listings in RMLSweb had balconies. However, this simple task proved to be more difficult than we had anticipated.

In order to get our answer, we conducted individual searches for balconies in each room category listed in Advanced Search. For example, we searched for balconies in “2nd Bedroom Features,” “3rd Bedroom Features,” “Additional Room #1 Features,” and so on until we had the total count of balconies in each room category.

Our work wasn’t done just yet, either. We then added together all of the search counts from each room category to get our grand total of active listings with balconies.

Thanks to the addition of the All Room Features field, the next time we want to know how many properties have balconies, we can run just one search. We imagine that you can also benefit from being able to search through all of the room categories in one simple step.

Check out our How to Search Using All Room Features tutorial to see a demonstration. Click the image below to view our tutorial.



New Updates on RMLSweb Now in Action

RMLSweb has been updated with some new and exciting features:

1) Electronic input forms are now available in several formats on RMLSweb. Take a look at the Listing Input Forms Change Summary to see all changes.

2) In client and agent reports, most city and county names are now links to local municipalities for that area

3) Short Sale Yes/No, Short Sale Offer Yes/No and Energy Efficiency have been added to the Export Residential Report. Distance to BLM has also been added to the Export Farms and Ranches Report.

4) All Room Features field is now available in Advanced Search