by RMLS Communication Department | May 10, 2010 | Lockbox, Statistics, Supra
Both states show decreases in activity
When comparing the week of April 26 – May 2 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox decreased 23.4% in Washington and decreased 15.2% in Oregon.


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Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
by RMLS Communication Department | May 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
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.

by RMLS Communication Department | May 3, 2010 | Lockbox, Statistics, Supra
Minimal changes in activity from previous week
When comparing the week of April 19 – April 25 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox decreased 1.2% in Washington and increased 1.8% in Oregon.


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Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
by RMLS Communication Department | Apr 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
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
by RMLS Communication Department | Apr 28, 2010 | Events
This May, get educated with FREE RMLSweb training
Here’s a quick rundown of upcoming real estate events & education for May in Oregon & Southern Washington. If you have an event that is not listed here, please let us know by commenting below. For future events, please send an e-mail to communications (at) rmls (dot) com.
Events around the Region:
–Through May 30: Prudential Real Estate Professionals offers its CRS111 Short Sales and Foreclosures course held on July 1st. Discounted registration is available until May 30th.
-May 3: Clark County Association of Realtors® offers Get Connected Boot Camp for FREE admission
-May 17: Clatsop Association of Realtors® co-presents Issues with Short Sales, Loan Modifications and Foreclosure Rescue in Seaside, Oregon
-May 19: PMAR® offers the Navigating the Realtor® Code of Ethics training seminar
-May 20-21: OAR® presents The Accredited Buyer’s Representative®, a two-day course series at the Oregon Convention Center
-May 23: Vancouver Fine Homes Group hosts the Vancouver Fine Homes Spring Tour
-May 26, 27: Earth Advantage offers Sustainability Training for Accredited Real Estate Professionals
Also, if you’re an RMLS™ subscriber, we have lots of FREE opportunities for continuing education credit at a location near you; click the link for your area to view the May Training Calendar:
– Coos County
– Eastern Oregon
– Eugene
– Florence
– Gresham
– Hood River
– Portland
– Roseburg
– Salem
– Vancouver