Ideas for NEW Real Estate Site/Portal
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- brian fleming
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Hi Folks,
Thought it might be worthwhile to gather input from all of you for a new residential real estate site -- both content and style.
Thinking Vortex - www.browardpropertyonline.com - what would hold your attention and encourage your use in a site if you were beginning a home search?
Basically what is important to you in a web based home search.
I've tried look at all angles for a new site - but there are quite a few of the same thing out there.
Thanks for any and all ideas -
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- Bob Ateah
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I have used the
Hot Property
component/ modules and it works well - it is over $100 though.
Sorry that I cannot offer much for advice, best of luck. - The member formerly known as Roland Deschain
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- SureLurksalot
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The things that come to mind in a real-estate site would be lots of information about your local area, schools, hospitals, art galleries, museums, points of interest, history of the area etc. really make your area look good. Maybe even some landmark or other interesting photos to catch someones interest.. (sized and scaled properly too)
(I have been to some realtor's sites that the pictures take forever to appear thus driving me away from the site from waiting)
Usually the front page would have a new listing section or a "featured" home.
Lots of ways to search your listings IE: by number of bedrooms/baths/price/age of home,and a lot of other ways, etc.
Maybe "virtual tour" show the inside and out of the home as well as the usual specs like taxes, beds/baths etc. or at least a number of "quality" pictures that can give the prospect an idea of what the place looks like, but not so many that they don't want to see it "live" either....
Seeing is believing.....
Just a couple things that came to mind.... - Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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The things that come to mind in a real-estate site would be lots of information about your local area, schools, hospitals, art galleries, museums, points of interest, history of the area etc. really make your area look good.the only thing I'd add to that is "ease of use" when navigating listings.
I've checked out hot property and it's fine, ezrealty isn't bad, but I'm still kinda preferential towards openrealty. I haven't used it with Joomla but I have with Mambo and there was a bridge for it (I don't know if th ebridge would be Joomla compatible). I found operealty to be very robust and easy to customize. it has several loan calculators built in, listings have automatically generated links to maps (you can choose different map sites for default) and area profiles like yahoo's school and neighborhood profiles.
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- brian fleming
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Thanks folks,
I do appreciate your comments - one confine of the project is a need to incorporate one or more external databases using a wrapper. They have the available data.
Is there anything additional that I can include that would bring a value proposition to using the site?
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- John Brady
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Hi,
Did you ever look at Open-Realty and CMS Realty? CMS realty is the Joomla component, and Open-Realty is the backend for CMS Realty. I'm attempting to set them up on my new site now. You'll still have to use some other RETS or IDX package to integrate the MLS, but it's a good cheap start.
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