November 12: Release Notes

The following items were released November 12:

Listing transfer requests are available for submission and approval online.

Listing transfer requests are now available directly in Account & Settings, no paperwork required. This creates a faster turnaround for agents to get listings transferred when changing offices. Agents can initiate a request under My Subscription > Agent Listing Transfer, and brokers are notified to go to My Brokerage > Listing Transfer Requests to review the pending request.

MLS Areas have been added for Allegany County, MD.

For MRIS subscribers converting to Bright from Allegany County, Maryland, we have added areas to the MLS Area field so you can easily search for listings the way you did before. The numbers at the end match the Areas that were used in MRIS, but are preceded by a more descriptive name. Here are the MLS Areas that are now available for any listing entered in Allegany County:​

• N Cumberland - Allegany County (MDAL1)
• S Cumberland - Allegany County (MDAL2)
• W Cumberland - Allegany County (MDAL3)
• LaVale - Allegany County (MDAL4)
• Cresaptown - Allegany County (MDAL5)
• Rawlings - Allegany County (MDAL6)
• Month Savage - Allegany County (MDAL7)
• Frostburg - Allegany County (MDAL8)
• SW Allegany - Allegany County (MDAL9)
• NE Allegany - Allegany County (MDAL10)
• SE Allegany - Allegany County (MDAL11)

Price Analysis Report added to printable PDF reports.

Within Bright’s printable report options, we have added a new report titled Price Analysis Report. This report allows you to easily view the net price for a set of closed listings, along with DOM/CDOM and Age. Click here to learn how to run the Price Analysis Report.

Please note: Concessions and Net Price show only for Closed listings. You can view the DOM, CDOM, and Age on all other Statuses.

City and Legal Subdivision fields added to Public Records Search.

Fields for City and Legal Subdivision have been added to the available options when performing a Public Records search.

Public Records Subdivisions in Worcester, Wicomico and Somerset Counties standardized.

Subdivisions in Worcester, Wicomico and Somerset counties have been reviewed and standardized in Bright public records. 

More than 38,000 properties, in approximately 750 subdivisions, across all three counties are now available in the subdivision/neighborhood field in Bright Public Records. Also, in order to make it easy for you to search for subdivisions, we aligned the Public Record subdivision names to the standardized MLS names. 

Similar work is in progress for Public Record Building Names and is expected to be available in early December.

Search for Public Records using a set of selected listings.

Now you can quickly perform a Public Records search from a set of selected listings. To do so, run a search and select some or all of the listings, then click Refine. Under Search selected for, click To Public Records.

Financial Calculators have been updated for use in West Virginia.

Tax information and other updates applicable to West Virginia were made to the Buyer Closing Costs and Seller Net Sheet calculators.

Changes to how Waterfront fields appear in Search.

The following changes are now reflected under Waterfront/Water Access:

• Waterfront has been relabeled Waterfront Features.
• Water Frontage in Feet is now visible.
• Dist. To Body Of Wtr Rmk was a duplicate field and has been removed, leaving Distance to Body Of Water.
   

Other miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.