Have you been thinking about conducting virtual showings on your listings? ShowingTime has put together a helpful resource on how you can use live streaming services in tandem with ShowingTime.
Click this link for the ShowingTime resource web page that includes instructional videos and a link to download a brief instructional guideline. Below is one of the videos on how to use Zoom with ShowingTime.
Do you wonder how the current pandemic situation is affecting showings activity? ShowingTime has created a chart showing the Impact of COVID-19 on Real Estate Showings in North America.
This chart is updated daily and is based on their top 100 markets, including NorthstarMLS. They plan to eventually post regional versions of the chart. But according to ShowingTime, so far the indicators are pretty even nationwide.
Reminder, our rule requiring availability for showings on Active listings has been suspended until further notice (as long as you disclose it in Public Remarks).
NorthstarMLS continues to operate at full availability and support.
Check out these five time-saving features you can do from anywhere you have your tablet or smartphone handy on the ShowingTime mobile app.
1. Sync Showings to Your Mobile Calendar
Never worry about missing your next appointment, or spending time trying to find the information you need! With a few taps, you can sync your showing schedule straight to your phone’s calendar.
Here’s How: Click on “My Profile & Settings,” then scroll down to “Calendar Sync.”
2. Easily Manage Feedback
From the app, you can both request feedback from showing agents and respond to showing feedback requests. You don’t have to worry about yourself or other agents forgetting about feedback that could potentially be important to sell the listing.
Here’s How: Visit “Feedback” on the main page, where all inbound and outbound requests can be managed. Watch our video on leaving feedback with the app.
3. Give Your Sellers Access
An app just for your clients! My Home by ShowingTime, which can be used to confirm showings, view feedback you’ve approved, review their home’s listing activity, contact you, view upcoming showings and more.
Here’s How: When you tag your client to a listing, they will receive an email inviting them to download the My Home app.
4. View Reports
You don’t need to worry about being at your desktop computer – you can view listing activity reports right from your mobile device. This can be very helpful when you need some in-depth information in short order.
Here’s How: From the main page, scroll down to “Reports” and select a listing.
5. Search for Listings to Show
Sometimes you may find yourself waiting in the car or perhaps waiting at a listing. You might have to make a quick lunch stop. With the ShowingTime mobile app, you can fill the time by searching for listings from wherever you are. Even down time can be productive!
If you haven’t downloaded the ShowingTime app to your mobile device, get it now! You get instant access to your showings, feedback, reports and more.
My Home by ShowingTime — improve your seller’s experience!
My Home by ShowingTime is now available for clients working with NorthstarMLS subscribers/agents. With My Home, sellers will now enjoy an improved experience — no matter what device they are using: desktop, mobile or tablet. The new modern user interface, intuitive navigation, messaging and streamlined workflow make it easy for sellers to use My Home to manage showings and feedback on their property.
Share My Home App with Your Clients Now!
Share the free My Home app by ShowingTime, where your sellers can easily manage showings and feedback on their listings all in one place. Available on iOS and Android. Sellers using the old ShowingTime app will see these updates with these improvements on their devices once they’ve installed the update.
Here’s a quick Seller’s Guide to My Home by ShowingTime.
With the ShowingTime mobile app, you can quickly leave feedback from a showing appointment right from your mobile device.
The quick video below walks you through how it’s done!
If you haven’t downloaded the ShowingTime app to your mobile device, get it now! You get instant access to your showings, feedback, reports and more.
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ShowingTime Font Size
Want to adjust the font size for the ShowingTime mobile app? ShowingTime offers a font size for everyone's eyes!
The ShowingTime app taps into your phone's native font size options to match the preferences you set on your device, like in the screen shot below. You'll just have to use your device's Font Size Settings to adjust the size to your liking and it will enable that size in the ShowingTime app.
For iPhone/iPad
For Android Devices
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With the upcoming Labor Day holiday marking the unofficial end of summer, the residential real estate industry is gradually nearing its annual slow period.
The snow hasn’t started flying just yet — and we certainly don’t want to skip over the changing of leaves and football! But as the first day of school arrives for many children throughout the area, parents are less likely to put their homes on the market and relocate their families.
If you have sellers who are getting anxious heading into the fall market, you can explain the seasonality of residential real estate and what they can expect through your market knowledge, experience and tools provided by ShowingTime.
Take a look at the most recent ShowingTime “Showing Index” report. It tracks the average number of buyer showings on active residential properties on a monthly basis. View the latest report.
Planning ahead for the slowing fall real estate market can help make back-to-school time a little more manageable for the sellers, and for yourself.
If you haven’t downloaded the ShowingTime app to your mobile device, get it now! You get instant access to your showings, feedback, reports and more.
By popular request, the new NorthstarMLS default setting for ShowingTime overlapping appointments is to continue to allow them, but no longer reveal the appointment blocks/overlaps to the showing agent that other agents have scheduled.
List agents may change this setting on some or all of their listings if they choose. The other options are to allow overlapping appointments and show the other appointments/overlaps, or to not allow overlapping appointments at all.
If you want to change this setting for any of your listings, here are the instructions.
For more detailed instructions on changing this and other ShowingTime settings for your listings, check out this ShowingTime help page.
Syncing ShowingTime Appointments to your Phone or Calendar App
With ShowingTime‘s Calendar Sync feature you can have all of your upcoming appointments synced directly to your personal calendar which can be accessed through your preferred calendar application or on your mobile device.
Watch the brief video below to see how you can sync your calendar to your mobile device
Submit Your Own Tip! Do you have a question that you would like to see featured a Tip of the Week? Or maybe you have your own tip you would like to share with other NorthstarMLS users. Send your question or idea to tips@northstarmls.com. We will use one submission each month and the winner will receive a $30 Caribou Coffee gift card!
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