November 29: Release Notes

The following items were released November 29:

Market Performance Reports now available in Bright.

To help show your value and provide your clients with new and innovative information they can’t find online, we have added new Market Performance Reports to the Market Statistics available in Bright. These reports offer in-depth housing data useful for educating clients about the market in their area and can assist in the tough decisions when it comes to buying or selling their home. Learn more about this report here.

New system feature allows you to edit your listings directly from Search.

Have you ever looked at your listing in Search and noticed something wrong with it? Now you can simply click the new pencil icon from your search results or any agent display, and it will take you to the full listing to make your changes in Listing Management. If a listing is already checked out, you will be notified who has it locked for editing so you can coordinate with them to make any needed edits. This feature puts Agents, Brokers, Office Managers, and anyone who has permission to edit the listing one click away from data accuracy.

Importing photos and documents using OneDrive.

Now there is an additional option for uploading photos and documents to your listing through OneDrive. This feature will save you the time of having to download files to your computer and then upload them to your listing.

When you click Edit or More: Photos/Documents to add photos or documents in Listing Management, a new OneDrive icon appears next to the Computer and Dropbox icons. After logging in to your OneDrive account, you will be prompted to verify you are allowing Bright Listing Management access to your OneDrive. Once your account is authenticated, this message will not appear again. Based on what you are adding to your listing, files of the accepted format (JPG for photos, PDF for documents) will appear as options for you to select and import from OneDrive.

Learn more about uploading photos and adding documents in Bright.

Assessor photos will soon be available for York and Adams County, PA.

Based on your requests, assessor photos for York and Adams County, Pennsylvania, will now be available in Bright. Photos are being loaded into the system over the next several days. You will be able to view them in a new tab named Assessor Photos in Bright’s 360 Report, where they can be individually printed if needed.

Please note: By design, the Public Records 360 display wraps the Sketches and Maps tabs to a second line at the top of the screen for parcels with assessor photos. Parcels with no assessor photos do not have a tab displayed, and are unaffected.

York, Adams, and Dauphin County, PA Property Characteristic Cards.

Based on your feedback, you can now access multiple characteristic cards for property structures in York, Adams, and Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Similar to the first property characteristics card that agents and appraisers use to determine the square footage of the primary building on a property, these cards show the same information for additional structures such as barns, sheds, and gazebos. The additional property characteristic cards have been added for both residential and commercial properties and can be found in Public Records under Other Buildings & Characteristics.

York County, PA commercial sketches now available.

Commercial sketches (i.e., floor plans) for York County, Pennsylvania are now available in Bright’s 360 Report on the Sketches tab, where they can be individually printed if needed. We have also increased the resolution of all existing sketches to improve the quality of the images. All sketches that need to be reprocessed are estimated to be completed by the end of next week.

Building Name field added to Public Records Search.

You can now search by Building Name in Public Records Search. This field is located beneath City in the Address or Geographic Area section at the top of the page. Simply start typing in a name of a building and select from the results that appear in the list.

MLS Areas added for PA counties adjoining to Franklin and Fulton County.

We have removed the “All [Name] County” options and added MLS Areas for the following counties in Pennsylvania:

• Bedford, PA
• Blair, PA
• Cambria, PA
• Huntingdon, PA
• Somerset, PA

Features added to Public Records and Listing Management for Sussex County, DE.

Based on your requests, Class C has been added as a style where Structure Type = Manufactured in both Public Records and Listing Management. (Please note: This is not a property type.)

Additionally, the following features have been added under Garage Type in Public Records:

• Attached
• Basement
• Built In

Listing Terms field added to Listing Management.

We have added Listing Terms as a new optional field in Listing Management. Now you can use this field to select any special terms, clauses or addenda needed in an Agreement of Sale to make potential buyers aware of what terms are associated with a listing.

Buyer Agent now easier to assign in Listing Management.

Now that the Bright subscriber base is growing, there is an increased number of agents that might have the same or a similar name. Search results when entering a List Agent, Co-List Agent, Selling Agent, and Co-Selling Agent will now display brokerage information, making it easier to select the correct agent.

Other miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.