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ires llc: New Monthly Indicator Report and Local Market Update for Denver Realtors - 02/16/11 11:45 AM
The Monthly Indicator Report and Local Market Update have been updated to make them even simpler, cleaner and more modern, giving you the tools needed to help tell the story of your real estate market. Here's a summary of the enhancements made to these two Market Intel reports: Monthly Indicator Report The first page offers a new Quick Facts dashboard, which highlights key metrics and complements the written analysis to give a top line summary of the month's trends. The Market Overview has been moved to the second page and enhanced with historical sparklines. Finally, the individual metric pages now include
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ires llc: ATTENTION METROLIST (DENVER) MEMBERS: New Classes Available for MLS Rules & Regs Update - 12/20/10 03:18 PM
To help you understand the new status fields and to answer related listing questions, Metrolist® will offer a new class and webinar in January. Understanding New Statuses Learn to correctly use the new Status Conditions and Approval Conditions fields to present a true picture of a listing. Get examples of accurate reporting for common listing scenarios. You will learn: How to accurately use Short Sale disclosure When to use the Pending status How a Refreshed listing work How the Withdrawn status works When to use the Kick Out condition These 45 minute classes are scheduled to immediately follow the Skill Building:
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ires llc: New Required MLS Fields Bring Clarity to Status, Availability of Listings - 12/16/10 05:35 PM
Determining the true availability and status of a listing has been a frustration of Colorado real estate professionals. New status-related fields, accompanied by changes to the MLS Rules & Regulations effective January 1, 2011, help establish a better way to create a true picture of the status and availability of a listing. All of the current Status options (Active, Under Contract, Pending, Withdrawn, Expired and Sold) remain as the primary listing status options. Two new required fields will be added, Status Conditions and Approval Conditions. Also, the Seller Type field will be required at the time the listing is entered,
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ires llc: R U Loquacious? Be as wordy as you want with PrimeAccess! - 12/01/10 01:13 AM
You can now enter up to 1,000 characters in the Public Remarks, Broker Remarks, and Directions fields. PrimeAccess® Listing Details will display the full set of characters, allowing you more space to describe your property's features and provide better directions to the property. A response to frequent customer requests, expanded remarks are just the latest PrimeAccess improvement to increase the marketability of your properties. Take advantage of this enhancement by more adequately describing the unique features of your properties. Report Character Count In order to maintain one-page layouts, select reports will display a truncated version of this field and will be
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ires llc: Search Multiple Property Types in PrimeAccess - 11/16/10 08:49 PM
"I want to be able to select Res and Condo in my searches" - this is among the most requested changes we've been asked to implement. With the launch of the Beta Searches, you can now include multiple property types in a single search. Using either Basic BETA or Advanced BETA, you can choose as many property types as you need to get the results you want (fig. 1). fig. 1 Basic BETA search provides the most commonly used fields while Advanced BETA search allows you to customize your MLS experience so that you get only the fields you want for
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ires llc: Edit Listing Photos for Free Online - 11/11/10 05:25 PM
Your online listing photos are often the first impression a homebuyer gets of your listings. Now that you can have up to 25 listing photos, as well as add captions to your photos in PrimeAccess®, it's time to take your listing photos to the next level. Simple photo editing can help your photos go from dark and cluttered to clear and colorful. And there are many free online tools to help you achieve a great look in your listing photos. Picnik.com One of the easier online editors is picnik.com, which gives you the ability to crop and resize photos, as well
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ires llc: Urban Living - Finding a "Walkable" Home - 11/04/10 06:22 PM
With increased emphasis on going green and saving money on gas, many of today's homebuyers rank proximity to daily conveniences as a highly important factor when choosing a neighborhood. Help your clients find a home in a "walkable" neighborhood using PrimeAccess® Power Search. Each Metrolist® listing includes a Walk Score that helps rate walkable places to live. The Walk Score is determined by the proximity of nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks and more. The higher the Walk Score, the easier it is to live a car-lite, or even a car-free lifestyle. Search by Walk ScoreWalk Score is searchable in PrimeAccess Power
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ires llc: Make your Listings Stand Out with 25 Photos AND Captions - 10/25/10 03:45 PM
Differentiate yourself and your listing from the crowd. Metrolist now supports up to 25 photos with captions in its new Photo Management functionality. Arnie Stein discusses the importance of listing photos and the improvements made by Metrolist. Broker IPTV: Today we are talking with Arnie Stein, broker associate with Fuller Sothebys International Realty and head of the Arnie Stein Team. Arnie welcome. Arnie Stein: Hi Dan, how are you? Broker IPTV: Great to have you here. Arnie Stein: Well thank you for having me. Broker IPTV: Today we are talking about the importance of listing photos for those people in
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ires llc: Farming - Not Just a Facebook Game - 10/14/10 04:44 PM
A successful real estate business is dependent upon growth. Developing new leads is a crucial part of surviving in the real estate industry. However, many real estate professionals overlook an important component that leads to growth... FARMING. What is farming? In real estate, farming is not growing produce nor is it something you do on Facebook. Farming is a prospecting tool for identifying and establishing new potential leads. Much like actual farmers who plant crops months before the harvest, real estate professional must plant seeds, sometimes referred to as marketing campaigns, which will eventually generate customers, clients, sales, and income. Finding
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ires llc: Personal Branding Made Easy - Upload Your Broker or Team Photo to the Denver MLS - 10/06/10 06:35 PM
You promote your listings all the time. Now it’s time to promote “you.” Real estate is a business built around personal relationships. It's important to keep your warm, welcoming smile in front of customers and clients alike. Upload your photo to PrimeAccess to include “you” on your listings and PrimeAccess reports. Why Upload Your Photo? Uploading your broker photo allows you to provide your clients with personally-branded reports. All of your property reports in PrimeAccess will be personalized with your photo and contact info. Your photo will also appear on your listings on REcolorado.com and in your Broker Profile in
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ires llc: Get SOLD on Home Staging - 09/15/10 05:30 PM
In today's market, you need to ensure that your listings are pleasing to even the pickiest home buyers. Effective home staging can give your listings a clear advantage. Maximize a Home's Best Features - A good home stager will use design elements to highlight the sellable features of the home including architectural details, efficient use of space, logical organization, and rational traffic flow. Minimize a Home's Flaws - Effective home staging can compensate for features of a home that may not be attractive or useful to buyers. By using the right elements, you can direct the attention of homebuyers away from
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ires llc: Using Smartphones for Real Estate - 09/10/10 04:27 PM
While there is no standard definition of the term "smartphone," most smartphones give you the ability to send and receive email, manage your calendar, access the web, create/edit documents, get turn-by-turn GPS directions, and much, much more. The abilities of today's smartphones are limitless for everyday life as well as for your business. For the real estate professional that is constantly on the go, a smartphone is as much a necessity as your office phone, email account, MLS access, and a good map. It just so happens that a smartphone can do all those things as well. The Internet on a
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ires llc: ShowingAssist – Manage Showings from PrimeAccess - 08/21/10 10:00 AM
Yes You Can! Discover the convenience of scheduling and maintaining showings online, directly from PrimeAccess. More than 65 percent of all listings in PrimeAccess® are enabled using ShowingAssistTM. ShowingAssist is included with your Metrolist® membership. Enable ShowingAssist Make it easy for buying brokers to schedule a showing for your listings. To enable ShowingAssist for your listings sign in to PrimeAccess and under My Listings, click ShowingAssist. ShowingAssist Benefits Integrated with the MLS for efficient showing management Request a showing any time of day with one easy step Receive showing confirmations quickly, via email Access directions and showing instructions right from the MLS
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ires llc: Top Do's and Don'ts of Listing Photos - 06/04/10 10:05 PM
With ninety percent of homebuyers searching online, "curb appeal" has been replaced with "click appeal." The first impression is no longer made at the curb, but at the click of the mouse. Here are ten "Dos" and "Don'ts" when taking listing photos. NOTE: No actual listings were harmed in the making of this article.
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ires llc: Work on Behalf of Others in PrimeAccess - New Feature from Metrolist (Denver) - 06/04/10 06:50 PM
Impersonation gives you the ability to grant privileges to others in your office to work on your behalf. You can now allow others to sign in to PrimeAccess® with their Username and Password, select your profile and use PrimeAccess on your behalf. Using this feature, your information and branding will be included on all printable reports. Any Search History, Saved Searches and CMAs, Prospects, etc, will be saved to your profile as well. Learn to use Impersonation Melissa Olson, Senior Manager of Marketing and Sales for Metrolist discusses using the Impersonation feature in PrimeAccess to work on behalf of others in
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