Showing Beacon® is designed to give agents peace of mind while at a showing or meeting by offering a way to keep a contact informed of their status should they want to send an alert. This feature is available in the ShowingTime mobile app for ShowingTime for the MLS, ShowingTime Appointment Center and ShowingTime Front Desk users.
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On Wednesday, August 18 at 8:12am you will receive an email from Bay East CEO, Tricia Thomas, about our 2021 Membership survey. Your input helps us shape the services and programs we offer. Complete the survey by Friday, August 27 and you’ll have the opportunity to enter into a drawing for free 2021/2022 local dues (we’ll send you a $300 check to reimburse your renewed membership).
It’s a common occurrence in today’s low inventory, high demand market to have a flurry of showing activity in the first few days of a new listing. Getting an appointment can be nearly impossible.
With the new ShowingTime Waitlist feature, you can be notified when a new time slot opens if the time you want is unavailable. Watch this short video to learn how to be added to the Waitlist.
Camp Wilmont Sweeney is a compulsory minimum-security residential program for adolescent males, ages 15-19, detained in Alameda County’s Juvenile Justice Center.
Your donation will help purchase items such as: headphones, basketballs, hats, baseball gloves & more!
Organized sports equipment requested By Camp Sweeney will help their teens develop leadership skills, learn teamwork, improve cognitive abilities and social development.
Teaching staff at Camp Sweeney partner with Alameda County Probation and social service agencies to educate and foster the personal and social development of the youth in their care. Sweeney Academic Center provides individualized instruction, instructional aides, and special education services as part of their quality program to:
- Prepare students for responsible citizenship.
- Foster a learning environment to reinforce self-discipline and personal responsibility with minimal application of disciplinary measures.
- Improve student attitudes toward learning experiences and school.
Please help contribute to the fundraiser or share the flyer to your colleagues.
Effective Tuesday, August 3, real estate professionals and their clients are required to wear face coverings, regardless of vaccination status, during Broker Tours, open house tours, in real estate offices, and other activities that occur indoors in Alameda County. Additionally, face coverings are required for property showings in Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Sonoma counties. More counties may be added to this list as additional information is received.
Client’s Collaboration Center
To assist your clients accessing their Collab Center quickly, an app icon can be easily saved to their home screen.
Map Layers Available in Paragon Connect
You are now able to access your favorite default mapping layers from any device! Making map search so much easier when you are on your mobile device
Multi-class Search in Paragon Connect
In this version of Paragon Connect you will have the ability to search across property classes with the Multi-Class search functionality at your fingertips. Just need to know either the MLS number or listing address and Paragon Connect will show you what property class that listing is listed in.
Share to Twitter and Facebook
We are happy to announce that we’ve added the ability to share listings to Facebook and Twitter from Paragon Connect. Showcase your listings on social media now!
Review all of the enhancements. If you have any questions, please call our MLS Tech Support at 925.730.7100.
President-Elect
One Vacancy, 1-Year Term as President-Elect – 2022, 1-Year Term as President – 2023 (President-Elect automatically assumes President the following year)
- Steve Medeiros – Elected
Treasurer
One Vacancy, 1-Year Term – 2022
- Barbara Clemons – Elected
- Bill Espinola
- Nicholas Solis
Central County District
San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Castro Valley, Hayward and all cities west of Hayward
No Vacancy
Tri-Cities District
Union City, Newark, Fremont and all cities to the South of Fremont
One Vacancy, 2-Year Term – 2022/2023
- June Burckhardt – Elected
- Frank Quismorio
Tri-Valley District
Pleasanton, Dublin, Livermore, Sunol and all cities to the North of Dublin and East of Livermore
Tw0 Vacancy, 2-Year Term – 2022/2023
- Don Faught – Elected
- Sandi Gomes – Elected
North County District
Alameda, Berkeley, Oakland and all cities to the north and all cities to the east of these cities
No Vacancy
Director At Large
All Areas/Districts
Three Vacancies, 2-Year Term – 2022/2023
- Joe Annunziato – Elected
- Joe LoParo
- Angela McIntyre – Elected
- Paul Wong – Elected
AFFILIATE DIRECTOR
All Areas/Districts
One Vacancy, 2-Year Term – 2022/2023
- Tim Denbo – Elected
- Leah Nishi
- Trevor Frey
- Updating Disclaimer: The existing disclaimer will be updated to add additional protection for our members who add floor plans to their listings.
- Additional video links: Allowing more videos to showcase your listings, you may now add up to 10 unbranded embedded video links per listing within the Paragon listing entry screen. The video(s) will show up in Paragon Connect, ConnectView under REPORTS, Collab Center, and CollabLink (in email). You will find the embedded video field on the left column of the listing entry screen. View screenshots of the embedded video field.
- Status change for Coming Soon listings: Coming Soon Active listings can be updated to Pending directly to create an easier workflow for listing agents.
- Removal of Point Richmond: Point Richmond will be removed from the CITY field but remain in the AREA field to reflect more accurate information.
- Disclosures in listings: Data in Disclosures link will be removed within one day after status is changed to Sold, Expired, Canceled, and Withdrawn Temporary. A time-saving update for listing agents.
- Agent 2-Page (New): A new default report which accommodates all information of the listing and has bigger font for easier reading. Learn how to select any report to be the default of your own login.
- More information from MLSListings: Paragon will be importing all the AREA and School Districts from the South Bay system; making your property search more specific if necessary.
- Districts and Sub Districts from SFAR: Paragon will be importing all the Districts and Sub Districts from the San Francisco MLS; making your property search more specific if necessary.
Polls are now open for the election of the Bay East Officers and Directors for 2022/2023. Click here to cast your online vote.
Voting closes at 2 p.m. on June 25, 2021. We will announce the new Board of Directors and Officers after all of the candidates have been notified of the results.
Learn more about the candidates by reading their election statements on the Bay East website.
Every vote counts. If you cast your online vote before midnight on June 16, you can enter a drawing to win a year of FREE local dues for the 2021/2022 billing period. If you have already paid your dues and win the drawing, your account will be credited.
All REALTOR® members in good standing (defined as having all Association and MLS fees paid) are eligible to vote for Officers, At-Large Directors, Affiliate Directors and Directors representing their districts. All Platinum Affiliate members in good standing are eligible to vote for Affiliate Director.
The following is a breakdown of the cities / areas within each district.
North County: Alameda, Berkeley, Oakland and all cities to the North and to the East of these cities. Represented by one Director (no vacancy).
Central County: Hayward, Castro Valley, San Leandro, San Lorenzo and all cities to the West of Hayward. Represented by one Director (no vacancy).
Tri-Cities: Fremont, Newark, Union City, and all cities South of Fremont. Represented by three Directors (one vacancy).
Tri-Valley: Dublin, Pleasanton, Livermore, Sunol, and all cities to the North of Dublin and East of Livermore. Represented by four Directors (two vacancies).
At-Large: All Districts/All Areas (three vacancies).
Platinum Affiliate (one vacancy).
- Multi-Select Integrations available in Paragon Connect:
We’re happy to announce that users can select and take third-party actions on multiple records from Paragon Connect search results. By clicking the overflow menu, you can now see both System options and third-party integrations! Prior to this change, the only option available was Add to Cart
- Paragon Connect – Accessing your last five (5) searches:
Paragon Connect can now access your last five searches. This is synced with Paragon Classic, so the five searches you see are from either system.
The folder icon now opens a drawer instead of going directly to the load search dialog. The “Load Default Search” option has been moved to this location as well.
Another nice feature is you can either click on the criteria to load the search criteria in the search form, or you can click/tap on the arrow to go directly to the results.
Note: Accessing a class-based search from the hamburger menu will always load your default search.
- Preferred Phone number on Paragon Connect Detail Report
On the Paragon Connect detail report, the agent’s phone number displays the office or agent’s phone number based on a configuration. However, there is a user preference in Paragon Classic that allows users to choose which phone number to use for reports, which was being ignored by Paragon Connect. It has been updated to honor that preference. If a user chooses a phone number and checks “Display this phone number…” it will display the selected phone number on the Paragon Connect detail report.
- Collaboration Center – Change Search radius to an Input Field and Change Default to 1 mile/km
For Contacts who can create their own searches in Collaboration Center, they will now find the Address Search’s Radius field easier to use. We’ve removed the slider and switched it to an input field and changed the default amount from 5 miles to 1 mile. Users can input distances up to 50 miles/80 km.
- Collaboration Center – Consumer Mortgage Center
We have updated the mortgage calculator. This new tool can provide accurate real-time and historical rate trends for your client.
Review all of the enhancements here. Questions, please call our MLS Tech Support at 925.730.7100.