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The LightBox Valuation homepage contains links to five applications. Click a link to open that application in a new browser tab.
Note:
Only applications that you (or your organization) have access to will be visible from within Valuation.
Feature Overview
Jobs
- Manage RFPs and Jobs received from RIMSCentral and PARCEL. Easily navigate to RIMSCentral and PARCEL.
- Create, edit or delete or RFPs and Jobs to track Jobs/RFPs that originated outside of RIMSCentral and PARCEL.
- Bulk upload RFPs and Jobs that originate from outside of RIMSCentral and PARCEL.
- Bulk Accept, Reject or edit RFPs that originate from outside of RIMSCentral and PARCEL.
- Bulk Status change or edit of Jobs that originate from outside of RIMSCentral and PARCEL.
- Create rules to auto-share RFPs and Jobs with another member of your organization.
- Share individual RFPs and Jobs with members or your organization.
- Bid smarter by viewing prior Jobs, property data, scope of work details and bidding data before responding to an RFP. Never underbid a proposal again.
- Launch the Research, CashFlow and Report Writer apps for a specific Job.
- Bulk export Jobs to Report Writer's Job Manager.
- Power User view – Report on all team members RFPs and historical jobs. View and edit auto-share delegates.
Research
- Conduct in-depth research on a subject property with state of the art map visualizations paired with data.
- Use our Site Definition tools to select the parcels
- Research Market location data and decide on which trade areas are appropriate for demographics
- Draw and define the Neighborhood area, view School district and Crime data.
- Use measurement tools to ascertain frontages in the Site object as well as Traffic and Flood, Wetlands and Seismic hazards.
- Research market Sales and Transfers for the subject.
- View the BFUSA footprint associated with the assessor's Improvements records.
- Review Assessment and tax data provided by LightBox’s team of professional researchers.
- Review Zoning data provided by LightBox’s team of professional researchers.
- Select Land and Improved Sales Comps for your analysis.
- Export the research data as a zip file or send to the Report Writer app.
- Use the Property Search tool to find and conduct research on properties.
- Use map tools to measure and label properties.
- Add map layers to view relevant data, such as home values, wetlands, and zip code boundaries.
- Build an exportable list of property records.
- Export properties to the Report Writer app.
CashFlow
- Create a discounted cash flow in 20 minutes or less!
- Gain better insight into real estate financial data and discounted cash flow analysis.
- Efficiently improve transparency when underwriting various property types.
- Create and manage property-level valuation models.
- System checks all entries and selections as a property evolves to reduce risk.
- Works seamlessly with existing solutions, such as importing spreadsheets and Argus files.
Report Writer
- Valuation Integrations
- Import subject data collected in the LightBox Valuation Research application. (Over 140 fields!)
- Import comps assigned to the Research project.
- Import properties from the Research properties object.
- Single or Bulk import Jobs from the Jobs application.
- Import CashFlow exports to the Valuation Excel model.
- Valuation data can be automatically uploaded to PARCEL.
- Cloud-based Property, Job and Contact Database:
- Securely access your comparables, Jobs and Contacts from anywhere.
- Advanced Search capabilities. Search and manage your properties with Saved and Map Searches.
- Utilize properties as comparables or as your subject.
- Save your subject data curated in excel - back to the Database for use as an update later or as a comparable.
- Robust standardized Data Capture. Over 600 Valuation-specificfields.
- Multiple Parcel Data Capture for Site and Assessment data, multiple zones for Zoning data, multiple Buildings in Improvements.
- Create fields, calculations, dropdowns and custom data entry views to support your specialty property type or create a quick data capture.
- Event Capture – capture multiple sales, lease records and expenses over the life of a property. Decide which event to use in your analysis.
- Job Management. Robust Job Search with assignment, Job details including Scope, Client details and Fee information.
- Contact and Appraisal License Management.
- Bulk import of comparables into the web database.
- Share comps with other Report Writer account holders that opt in to sharing with your firm.
- Manage Auto-text entries in a web interface.
- Report and manage Duplicate properties.
- Excel and Word-based Report Writer
- Customizable ExcelTemplates, with powerful features. Import your existing model into a Report Writer excel template. Create custom tables and fields on the fly to support a Valuation report.
- Out of the box Excel model - Property type agnostic, all three approaches
- Customizable Word templates. Quickly turn your existing word template into a Report Writer template.
- Out of the box word templates for:
- Appraisal Report with all three approaches - Property type agnostic
- Land Appraisal Report
- Multi-Family Report with all three approaches
- Commercial Evaluation Report
- Invoice Template
- Engagement Letter Template
- Out of the box word templates for:
- Excel fields and Tables merge to word templates with a single click.
- Auto -text library databases pages of text for quick insertion in reports.
- Automatic comparable Maps.
- Customizable ExcelTemplates, with powerful features. Import your existing model into a Report Writer excel template. Create custom tables and fields on the fly to support a Valuation report.
Insights
- Use the Time of Bid module to view key information that will facilitate quicker, more effective bidding on assignment opportunities.
- Conduct in-depth market analysis with the Research Center, a flexible query tool that provides access to LightBox’s broadest data set across multiple time periods.
- Use the Performance Monitor to view company performance over time, comparing against previous periods, as well as benchmark data provided by LightBox.
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