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Realist Downtime: System Maintenance – March 24, 10pm through March 25, 12pm CoreLogic will be performing system maintenance on Saturday, March 24th, 2018 from 10:00 pm through Sunday at 12:00 pm. Realist will be unavailable during this time.
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All 88 Ohio Counties Now in Realist As of February 27, 2018, Realist displays public records data in all 88 Ohio counties. Only 23 counties were previously included in Realist data. Links from the parcel number on listings in MLS go directly to the Realist detail page for all counties. Auto-population of tax data for new MLS listings is not yet configured in the additional counties but should be completed in the coming weeks. Reverse links to the county auditor page from the Realist detail page are not yet configured for all new counties. Some counties will not be able to be direct-linked due to limitations of the individual county auditor’s website.
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Realist Downtime: System Maintenance – Thursday, March 8 – 1:30am CoreLogic will be performing system maintenance on Thursday, March 8th, 2018 from 1:30am through 3:30am. Realist may be intermittently unavailable during this time.
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RESOLVED: Property Icons Not Displaying on Map Search RESOLVED: As of 2pm, the map icons should be appearing as normal. ===================================== FBS is investigating a network issue that is causing map icons to fail to appear on map search in MLS. This does not appear to affect other Flexmls functions. Tech Support will post an update here as soon as this issue is resolved.
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Broker Listing Distribution to Zillow – Live (Originally posted 1/29/18 at 11am EDT)
MLS participant brokers can now include their listings in a MLS feed to Zillow by using a checkbox setting to “Enable Feed” on the new Broker Distribution (Syndication) Preference page. The settings and menus in MLS will be labeled “Syndication” until January 31. These labels will be changed to
“Broker Distribution” by February 1. Brokers may never see the soon-to-be-changed “Syndication” labels unless they visit the “Broker Distribution” (Syndication) Preferences page prior to February 1st.
For the Full Story, INSTRUCTIONS, and VIDEO Tutorial:
Click this link – New MLS Zillow Feed (Instructional PDF and Video at bottom) or cut/paste this URL – https://www.columbusrealtors.com/NewsDetail/brokers-can-now-opt-in-to-a-MLS-feed-to-zillow
Questions?
Contact Bryan Dean, MLS Director
(614) 475-4000
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Realist Downtime: Scheduled Maintenance – Saturday, January 27 – 10:30pm Please note that a Realist update is scheduled this weekend, Saturday, January 27, 2018. This planned outage is anticipated to last no longer than one hour, beginning around 10:30 PM. The update will remedy an issue where some text was partially truncated when printed. No other functional or data changes will occur as a part of this update.
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Brokers will now be able to opt-in to feed listings to Zillow from MLS Participant Brokers will now have the ability to opt-in to the new Broker Listing Distribution functionality through Flexmls. This will allow Brokers to choose whether or not to send their listings to select third party portals. Initially, the only destination on the list will be the Zillow Group but others may be added in the future. The feed is set to go live on January 31, 2018.
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MLS Taxes: Time to Update “Tax (Yrly)” and “Tax Year” It’s that time of year again to update your listings with the latest property tax information for the 2017 tax year. Many county auditors have updated their tax records already, or will finish their process in the next few weeks, for each parcel in their taxing districts for the 2017 tax year. Voter approved school and bond levies impact those figures each year along with auditor reassessments or owner appeals of property valuation. Most real estate taxes change annually. It is important that REALTORS®, clients and even sellers be kept apprised of these ever changing figures. While Realist can auto-pop the Yearly Taxes and Tax Year for you when you first enter the listing, it cannot automatically update them when those figures change. This routine remains an important manual operation for REALTORS® to complete at the beginning of each year. For listings that are not in a CANCELLED or CLOSED status, these fields can be edited along with other listing fields by editing the listing values through LISTING INFORMATION. This action can be taken by the broker/office admin or by the listing/co-listing agent.
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New Way to Select Property Type for Quick Search New Way to Select Property Type for Quick SearchBeginning Thursday, January 18, the property type used for your last search will be the default for the next search your create. This means you will not have to select “Residential” every time you start a new Quick Search. It will default to the “last used” property type. You can always pick a different property type, but this will save you time. When starting a Quick Search or a Map Search, you will go directly to the search page where you can immediately start entering search criteria. If you’d like to select a different property type (Land/Farm, Multi-Family, etc), you can do that directly from the Quick Search screen. This change saves time and provides a logical workflow by eliminating the need to select a property type before going to the Quick Search screen.
When you use the menu or favorites link to begin a Quick Search or Map Search, you’ll go directly to the Quick Search screen.
You can begin entering search criteria, or your can change the property type using the Quick Search Template drop down menu. To change the property type for your Quick Search Template, click the current Quick Search (located at the top of the search criteria, ie “Residential”) and select a different property type from the list.
The next time you begin a Quick Search, the system will load the last property type you used. So if your last search used a Residential template, the next time you begin a Quick Search, you’ll begin on a blank Residential Quick Search template. Please note, specific search criteria (list price, location, square footage, etc.) will be cleared whenever you change Quick Search templates. The new workflow for selecting a Quick Search template provides a more intuitive workflow and saves time when starting a new search. Most users use the same property type the majority of the time. Having to select “Residential” every time you start a search is a waste of time if you almost always want a Residential Quick Search. You click on Quick Search and go directly to the search screen where you can begin entering search criteria or, if necessary, you can change your Quick Search template to the appropriate property type.
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Virtual Tours Open in a New Window Virtual Tours Open in a New Window The process for adding Virtual Tours to a listing will remain the same. Select a listing to Edit, and select the Virtual Tour option. The option Open all Virtual Tours in a new window will no longer appear. Instead, all Virtual Tours will automatically open in a new window. When other users view listings and click the Virtual Tour option on the Photo tab, a link will display to view the Tour in a new window. Opening all Virtual Tours in a new window will make the behavior consistent for all Virtual Tours. Since Flexmls is a secure website, linking to Tours hosted on insecure sites, like YouTube, requires them to open in a new window rather than within the Flexmls Photos tab. In order to keep behavior consistent and intuitive, all Virtual Tours will automatically follow the same behavior and open in a new tab.
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