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LightBox Report Writer offers a robust set of features to enhance and optimize Valuation reports.
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. Compare your subject against possible comparable properties before selecting which comps to use.
- 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.
- 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, Client details and Fee information. E-mail job details and create branded invoices. Job data can be imported to Quickbooks.
- Contact and Appraisal License Management. Admins can bulk import contacts.
- Bulk import of comparables into the web database. Create templates for any Excel export from an external property database like MLS.
- 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, manage and merge Duplicate properties. Curate the ultimate property record with the Merge Properties interface.
Excel and Word-based Report Writer
- Customizable Excel Templates, 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.
- Import Job details from RIMSCentral, PARCEL or other job sources as well as contact and assigned appraiser information.
- Import Demographics from Valuation - Research, STDB/ESRI or CoStar, Market Analytics from CoStar, Investor Surveys from PwC, and Discounted Cash Flows from Valuation - CashFlow (ARGUS integration).
- Valuation Data Capture file for upload to Lenders.
- Excel fields and Tables merge to word templates with a single click.
- Customizable Wordtemplates. Quickly turn your existing word template into a Report Writer template.
- Standard templates include:
- Full Report template with all approaches
- Land Report template
- Multi-Family Report template with all approaches
- Evaluation Report Template
- Review Report Template
- Invoice Template
- Engagement Letter Template
- Standard templates include:
- Auto-text library databases pages of text for quick insertion in reports.
- Automatic comparable Maps.
Feature Requests
Our customers have great ideas! If you'd like a feature to be added to Report Writer, upvote or create a new feature enhancement request in our feedback portal.
Roadmap
Check out our Roadmap to see new features headed your way!
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