Category: MLS

  • Paragon Professional

Automatically display legend when layer is selected; you no longer need to click on the legend.

  • Paragon Connect: Validate Address Location

This is known as “Change Geocode” in Paragon Professional. This gives you the control to put a pin on the map to show the location of your listing accurately.

  • Paragon Connect: Contact Notification Options

Prior to this release, contact notification settings are only adjustable in Paragon Professional. Now, Paragon Connect users can adjust a variety of notification options. Enable/disable your notifications, change notification triggers, update when your notifications are sent and more.

Paragon Connect: Delete Search

There are times when you no longer need a saved search for a contact. You can now use the “Delete Search” option from the saved search card overflow.

Paragon Connect: Resend Invitation

When a prospective buyer cannot find or did not receive the Collab Center welcome email, you can resend it from Paragon Connect now.

  • Paragon Connect: New Detail Report

This updated report within the Contact module has larger and darker fonts and it has a faster loading time.

Review all of the enhancement is here.  Questions, please call our MLS Tech Support at 925.730.7100.


The AT&T SMS-blocking issue, first reported on April 29th, by ShowingTime has been resolved.

Starting June 27, Bay East members with a Supra key will be able open Supra lockboxes on thousands of listings in the California Regional MLS (CRMLS) area without having to join CRMLS. Check out FAQs and a map of new areas where you can open Supra lockboxes at https://bayeast.org/infobycounty/

Lease Rental listings: If you answered “No” in the RentSpree Online Application field on your Lease Rental Listings, a pop-up message will appear after hitting the save button. The pop-up message will show information on what the service is and give you an opportunity to change your answer to “Yes” if you’d like to. Whether you update your answer or not, please make sure to hit the “Save” button again on your listing to activate.
Associated Documents:  Due to requests from our members, the number of associated documents will be increased from 12 to 20 for each listing. 
Required Financial Fields:  Residential Income and Commercial Multi-Unit 5+ property classes have required financial fields, effective May 24, these fields will still be available however they will no longer be required.  

The MLS Management Group (MMG), consisting of representatives from Bay East, Contra Costa, and bridge MLS, passed a motion to add a new rule 12.6.1 to the MLS Rules and Regulations, which will be effective May 24, 2022.  Summary of the rule change.

  • To allow for clearer understanding of what type of pool a listing has within Paragon MLS, options for “Pool” field will be updated
  • To provide clarity if a Coming Soon listing is available to show or not; a new required field named “Available to Show” will be added when a listing is added under that status.
  • To meet the industry standards, selections in “Accessibility Features” will be updated and two new options will be added also
  • Issue on Updating Buyer Agent Lookup when marking listings Pending/Sold will be fixed
  • To accommodate the use of password management software, Paragon MLS will have a new login page.
  • Details of all the enhancements is here.  Questions, please call our System Support at 925.730.7100.

Paragon MLS Enhancements Release 4-13-2022 Highlights 

  • Updates to the Saved Property Searches Grip

Change the default filter to My Searches to easily locate the searches that you set up

  • Updated the Preferences for Email Options

The Email Preferences page has been updated to present a cleaner view with more concise wording. The Display Property Address option has also been moved out of its own node and into the Email Options page.

  • Updated the Verbiage on Upload Associated Document Dialog Box

The verbiage in the dialog box for adding documents to a listing has been updated to reflect the fact that Public documents will be available in Collaboration Center as well as available for sharing via email. 

  • Contact Comments Enhancements

The Comments table in Saved Search Management has been enhanced to be more 

intuitive and interactive.

  • Parcel Line in Collaboration Center

The default Google parcels have been removed to avoid cluttering

  • Paragon Connect

Several updates on Menu, Archive listings and thumbnail view sections

Review all of the enhancements here.  Questions, please call our MLS Tech Support at 925.730.7100.

Two new National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) multiple listing services (MLS) policies to increase transparency for consumers will mean changes for MLS users.

The NAR Board of Directors made these policies changes during their November 2021 meeting in San Diego.  Bay East announced the policies in the January 31, 2022 edition of the Bay East Insider email newsletter and implemented changes to the MLS on March 1, 2022.

Here are summaries of the policies and the related MLS changes:

Prohibition on filtering listings by compensation amount

New NAR policy:MLS Participants and Subscribers must not, and MLSs must not enable the ability to, filter out or restrict MLS listings that are searchable by and displayed to consumers based on the level of compensation offered to the cooperating broker or the name of a brokerage or agent.

According to NAR, this policy is in response to recent developments in real estate brokerage services, evolving broker business models, and the evolution of online marketing and listing searches.

To comply with this new NAR requirement to disclose Buyer Agent compensation public-facing MLS websites, agent and brokerage fields within the MLS have been temporarily disabled and any saved searches with these criteria have been removed. 

Bay East is working with its MLS vendor on an alternative for MLS participants and subscribers to search using these fields while also complying with the NAR policy.

Bay East hopes to enable the following search criteria as soon as possible:

  • Comp to Selling Office
  • Comp type
  • Co-list agent DRE num
  • Co agent email
  • Co agent fax
  • Entry agt ID
  • Entry Agent First Name
  • Entry Agent Last Name
  • Entry Agent License ID
  • List Agent DRE Num
  • Listing Agent
  • Listing Agt email
  • Listing Agt Fax
  • Listing Broker DRE Number
  • Listing Office

Buyer Agency Compensation Disclosure

New NAR Policy: MLSs must include the listing broker’s offer of compensation for each active listing displayed on its consumer-facing website(s) and in MLS data feeds provided to participants and subscribers and must permit MLS participants or subscribers to share such information through IDX and VOW displays or through any other form or format provided to clients and consumers. The information about the offer of compensation must be accompanied by a disclaimer stating that the offer is made only to participants of the MLS where the listing is filed.

According to NAR, disclosure of the offer of compensation to buyer agents (including non-agency relationships defined by state law) will increase transparency for the clients and consumers working with MLS participants and subscribers in a real estate transaction.

Bay East has enabled the Buyer Agent Compensation fields along with this disclaimer within the IDX and VOW fields. 

Disclaimer: “The offer of compensation is made only to participants of the MLS where the listing is filed or where the listing is shared with other MLSs as part of a data-share agreement that extends the offer of compensation.”  

MLS subscribers who want to display the information within their consumer-facing websites, should contact their IDX Vendor or whoever integrates data within their consumer-facing website. 

The “Find a Home” page on the www.bayeast.org  website has also been updated with Buyer Agents Compensation / Disclaimer information. 

  • Updated Colors on Contact Activity Widget

We updated the colors for Comments and Searches at the top of the Contact Activity widget on the Paragon Pro home screen to match the colors used in Paragon Connect.

  • Enhanced Listing Congratulations Modal in Listing Input

The Listing Congratulations Modal has been enhanced to give your members more information about the property and the integrated services. This includes displaying the primary photo of the property, more space for the third-party vendor’s logo and up to 100 characters for the description or call-to-action text.

  • Ability to delete a point in Polygon Map Drawing Tool

A new feature was added to the Polygon drawing tool to allow users to delete end points. Previously, if a user wanted to modify their polygon, they had to either move the respective points to reshape the drawing OR start over because moving all or some of the points was more work. With this enhancement, users can right-click on an endpoint and a “Delete” option will pop up. Selecting the option removes the point and the drawing updates based on the deleted point.

  • Expanded Full Screen on Collaboration Center

The search feature in Collaboration Center was recently moved into one of the primary tabs on the dashboard.  A new expand option is now available for those who want to search in full screen mode.  Once in full screen mode, the expand icon changes to a reduce icon that when activated takes you back to the default layout.

  • Price Analysis is now on Paragon Connect

The Price Analysis feature that was introduced in 5.86 to Paragon Professional, it is now available inside of Paragon Connect.  It can be used by agents to determine pricing by viewing the Potential Buyers and any available AVMs if enabled. The feature can be accessed from the overflow icon in the top app bar of the full listing edit.

  • Contact Buyer Activity

The buyer section within the contact viewer is getting a major upgrade.  Prior to this release, the buyer activity would take you to four circles where you would find the total number of undecideds, favorites, possible, and rejected listings for a specific contact. Now you will see each search is broken down into its own card.  You can see the total number of listings, plus the different categories for each search. 

Review all of the enhancements here.  Questions, please call our MLS Tech Support at 925.730.7100.