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June 2025

Join Us for Member Appreciation Night & a Great Cause

Baseball, food, drinks & a great cause—join us for a summer night with the Madison Mallards! Support the RASCW Housing Foundation’s mission to expand affordable housing.

FREE* for members-$55 fee applies if you register and don’t attend

Includes: Reserved Duck Blind seating, all-you-can-eat food, and bottomless beverages.

Date: June 4th, 2025

Gates at 5:05 PM | First pitch at 6:05 PM

Can’t make it? Donate Here to show your support!

NAR President Discusses New MLS Policy

NAR President, Kevin Sears, recently released an informative video on the newly announced MLS policy, Multiple Listing Options for Sellers, including details about the policy, how it came to be, and how it will benefit consumers. SCWMLS will notify all members by mid summer on these changes before the implementation deadline of 9/30/2025.

Click the image below to watch the video.

MLS Dues Reminder

Annual MLS Dues are due by June 15, 2025.

A late fee of $50.00 will be assessed if not paid by the due date.

Thank you for your continued Membership!

SCWMLS News & Hot Tips:

Forewarn - Training and Q&A

FOREWARN is an easy to use app that allows you to assess risk by learning about a new prospect prior to meeting them for a showing. FOREWARN is offering free training webinars every month.

The next FOREWARN trainings are Wednesday June 4th at 9:00 am and Wednesday June 18th at 1:00 pm. Join us as we demonstrate how to best utilize FOREWARN, share insider tips and tricks, and host a live Q&A session.

Making Changes to Existing Auto Searches

If you have a search running for a buyer and they want to change some criteria, you need to edit the search that is attached to their contact in Paragon. Let’s say they aren’t getting very many matches so they want to increase the maximum price they are searching for.

Click the Contacts icon, find their contact and click the name. On the next screen click the name of the search you want to edit.

Make the changes to your criteria, then hover over the Save button and choose Save Search, then click the Save button at the top right.

If there are now more matches for their criteria it will not send an auto email. You will need to resend the welcome message to let them know there are more matches to see. To do that, click Buyer Activity on the left panel, then click the search name that appears under it. Then click the Resend Invitation button.

Customize the subject line and/or message body and click Send.

Paragon email: Physical Organization Address Required

If you received an email from Paragon saying “the physical address for your office is blank in the Paragon(TM) system” please disregard. We are aware of a problem on the back end and are working to resolve it. Your email functionality is unaffected.

The New WB-50 Residential Pre-Agency Showing Agreement

The new WB-50 Residential Pre-Agency Showing Agreement is a Wisconsin Real Estate Examining Board-approved form. The optional use date for the form is May 15, 2025, and mandatory use date is July 1, 2025.

One frequently asked questions is, what are the differences between the WRA Pre-Agency Showing Agreement and the new WB-50 Residential Pre-Agency Showing Agreement The answer is, there are not many differences, and most of the differences are improvements to formatting. Click here to see the form differences.

Click the image below to watch the WRA Legal Update regarding WB-50