Multiple Listing Agents
Real Estate Agents can now add two listing agents per property, providing two contact points for your buyers! Exclusive to iDashboard, this new feature enables buyers multiple points of contact when purchasing their property! Buyers can now contact a property agent when Agent 1 is out of the office or assisting another client.
Accessing this Feature
Select the property you wish to edit… Click on the Sale tab… select your listing agent and secondary listing agent!
At iProperty we are constantly reviewing, updating and maintaining our real estate software, iDashboard. We’ve just released the latest version of iDashboard with a range of improvements and functionality enhancements across the board.
…on the marketing front?
…in the Real Estate tab?
…in the Contacts tab?
…in Tasks?
These updates were deployed late last night – we hope you find them valuable and that they improve your workflow.
Now you can send attachments to your contacts through iDashboard!
iDashboard is working towards a complete property management system for your real estate office. Not only can you store documents online within the property profile, but you can also send documents directly to your contacts via email within iDashboard with just a few clicks.
To use this new feature, go to the your property in iDashboard and click on the attachments tab.
Then just select the attachment (for example Contract of Sale) and click Send Attachments.
Perfect Builders approached us to help them develop a website with the aim to market their new property development project in Lara, Victoria.
Dubbed “Canopus Mews”, the project had no brand, no identity, and no website. iProperty provided a basic, budget package that has been proven time and time again – including a logo design, eye-catching website, photo gallery and interactive units on a plan.
The team can manage their pricing, alter details about the units and more. In addition, they can update all text throughout the site using a simple content management system that allows you to edit text by typing into the site itself. This has been a popular feature amongst property developers.
Updating the site – administration area
A new feature on this site is the integration with Open3DHouse – a virtual 3D tour technology that helps prospect buyers visualise the units.
This is perfect for developments where the actual properties have not been built yet. There’s no photos to show off, and renderings by architects can be very costly. This is a good compromise, and even allows visitors to add in their furniture, rugs, and paint walls to see if it’s the right match for them.
iProperty’s solution demonstrated here is more cost-effective than you might imagine. Contact us today for more information.
Late last year we posted this article about user focussed design and rethinking how users should engage with real estate agencies online. We drafted up some designs and developed a prototype, and shortly after found the Melbourne-based real estate agency, Nicholas Scott, were happy to be early adopters while they undertook a brand refresh. We have a few other agencies releasing sites based on a similar idea soon, but more on them later.
The end result is fantastic, the client’s very happy and we’re proud of the result. The simplicity of Nicholas Scott’s new logo and corporate identity is a perfect match with the new search flow that has been developed as an option on our real estate platform. The website has been launched today – check it out at www.nicholasscott.com.au.
Let’s run through the new homepage, search interface, and results page.
Well first of all, all 3 of these critical aspects are combined in the one easy to use area on the homepage.
Rather than show random listings, latest properties, feature properties, sold properties or prestige properties on the homepage (I’m betting you readers out there are all pretty familiar with this approach…), we thought we’d try and introduce imagery on the homepage that was more interactive and had a greater chance of being relevant to a user coming across it. So we’ve provided an interactive grid of property listings that can be manipulated on the fly by refining search parameters above it.
A grid of 6 property listings, large images, with pricing and suburb information and more informaiton if you roll your mouse over an image. This page of 6 listings can be scrolled away, left or right, using the navigation controls to see the next lot of 6.
Some might say – “there’s too many properties to scroll through!”
We disagree. It’s all about the application. If it’s a large property portal then sure, it’s not a fit – however if you’re a typical agency that may have between say 20-60 properties in their portfolio at the one time it starts to make more sense.
Users will see the latest properties display first, in a grid of 6 images, and scrolling to the left or right with the arrows slides the next 6 properties across – you could liken it to walking past the Agency itself and viewing the window cards. Rolling over the image with a mouse shows more details about the property.
Another way of looking at it is this – if you enter a real estate website and select in a search menu your Property Type, Maximum Price and Suburb, then click “Search” – that has already accumulated 4 clicks or interactions by the viewer. By adopting this new approach, 4 clicks on the property slider will have yielded a quick glance at 24 properties in a beautiful, scrolling screen and reducing the requirement to even think about inputting any search parameters. Users can make a quick decision about what properties an agency specialises in and decide whether they want to engage further.
Then there’s the search feature. We’ve made that simple too. For Nicholas Scott, they’ve got:
For most, that will be all they’d need. For those who have specific requirements – they can select “More Options” and be greeted with further search options, including:
Try it out for yourself. When we were playing around with the prototype, many of us felt as though it was almost too easy and that it may have been missing something. This was strictly due to the fact we’re simply so accustomed to conventional sites (us especially!). Rest assured it was simplicity fooling us – never were we in a situation were we found it hard to navigate or find property. The bonus is it’s enjoyable to use. It’s our honest opinion that we’ll see more sites sprout up like this one, as well as (hopefully) more variation and different approaches to designing user interaction on real estates. Why follow the status quo when you can lead the market?
Other features on their site include Translators, automatic Facebook updates, automatic Twitter updates and a featured Video (coming soon). It also contains our standard Premium offering of Walkscore, StreetView and social sharing on all properties. You’ll also notice (see above) we’ve included a traditional list view of properties if you access them via the main menu, with a refine search featured in the left hand column.
We’re always trying to build user focused functionality that assists real estate agents, and on every project we consider different ways to display them.
While we’re certain this site will be a success for Nicholas Scott, we’d appreciate any feedback you have on this site. You can read more about real estate software and website packages on our products site.
Store all Documents Electronically with iDashboard Real Estate Software!
We’re continually adding features and enhancing existing functionality to our iDashboard real estate software. Using iDashboard, documents can now be attached to a property at any stage – including withdrawn properties!
This new feature enables your office to get rid of paper copies and provides a more secure and organised office administration system. All documents can now be directly attached to a property making administration simple for all of your office staff.
This new feature will be extremely useful for offices that have imported their properties from another interface or who are moving to store all documents electronically. Our new document attachments also serve to create a simplified online filing system that can be accessed from outside the office.
To access this feature click on the property and select the Attachments tab. From there you can simply browse for the file and click “Add Attachment”. Easy!
Our latest website launch is for 1 to 1 Realty, a Sydney based independent real estate agent. They adopted our real estate software, iDashboard, in conjunction with a newly developed website that was designed based on their logo colours.
1 to 1 Realty specialises in property in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, and cater for auctions, sales and property management. Their current portfolio includes properties for sale in Kensington, Clovelly, Bondi, Darling Point and Belleview Hill. While 1 to 1 are a relatively young agency they boast numerous glowing testimonials, and a fantastic offer of 3 months of property management free of charge.
The new website features 5 large, tabbed feature properties in a rolling slideshow and 3 large buttons for siging up to Newsletters & Reports, as well as getting various market appraisals. Even with a very short brief – to design the site based on the feel of the logo, iProperty were pleased that the design team got the design right first time around – with Leon accepting the design only with minor changes. 1 to 1 Realty really were a pleasure to deal with, and with that – Leon and Tom – we wish the very best of success with your venture.
Lately iProperty’s support team have been busy creating tutorial videos on how to use our iDashboard Real Estate Software. These have been built as part of our extensive, ongoing customer support effort and are now accessible in our online HelpDesk system.
For those who aren’t that familiar with iDashboard, it’s the perfect opportunity to take a look and see just how powerful it is. If you’re reviewing your current solution, take the time to look at these tutorial videos and see some examples of what it can do:
Keep in mind these videos are just a starting point! iDashboard can do so much more – stay tuned on our YouTube channel as we develop further videos in the future. You can also check out all of the features of our real estate software solution here, or get in touch for a demonstration.
We’ve reviewed many alternative real estate website template packages on the market. If you’re in the market, you’ll have developed a picture of the good and the bad.
One area where we feel iProperty stands proud, is that we not only supply a diverse range of default layouts – it’s that we view this as only a starting point. Rather than just recolour them with your company logo, slap it together and there you go…. we’re happy to move items around, alter the propertions, insert new features and then apply a beautiful design to it. We like to do our best and make sure it doesn’t look like a template site, and make sure it looks different to anything else we’ve created – all the while on a budget.
With iProperty, you can achieve an end result that’s a considerably different design to your competitors in the market – and depending on the functionality you’re after it’s usually with very little price variation to our package deals. So with this flexibility in mind, we’re not afraid of trying new things. Inventing new features. Designing new layouts. Following design trends, starting new ones and going to great lengths to achieve polished looking products.
Our team of designers and developers involved in our real estate sites have been using our efficient and fast “Universe” platform since 2008. It’s efficient because it runs around 500 websites from the one core engine – and it runs them fast and reliably. We have default themes with standard real estate website functionality to include on your site. As far as the fundamentals are concerned, we’ve built everything your typical agency is after and more. It’s ready-made, and with our extensive, well-written codebase we can rapidly produce new functionality quickly.
We’ve also got a little more time to enjoy making the sites look great. And now that it’s proven and we’re so familiar with it – we can stretch the boundaries of what we provide you and come up with exciting new websites. And that’s what this year is about – we’re Bending it like Beckham!
So what’s this mean for you? Well.. if you’re interested in a website any time soon you should speak with us. We’re excited about what we build and we’re constantly trying to better our output from previous projects. And with a solid portfolio (you’ll have seen a glimpse of recent projects throughout this post), you can rest assured you’ll be working with a professional team and benefit from the solid results we constantly produce.
Macquarie Real Estate looked no further for listings management software and a great website design package when they came across iProperty’s solutions.
iProperty paid particular attention to maintaining the branded feel of their old website while coming up with something new, feature rich and easy to read. Macquarie’s new site features a large feature property slideshow, a suburb profile feature on the homepage and powerful search features allowing for keywords and map search functionality.
We help website users become more acquainted with the Macquarie team, with random team member profiles displaying on the homepage. After a recent survey, we found that the majority of those renting property are interested in finding team information instantly on the homepage. Macquarie’s site also makes it easy for renters with easy to find maintenance request forms and contact details prominent on every page.
Macquarie Real Estate have sold over 1600 properties in the Casula region since their inception. Selling properties in Casula, Lurnea, Prestons, Hinchinbrook, Ingleburn and nearby suburbs – those interested in this region can sign up for their email property alerts from the homepage too. This user information is instantly updated into Macquarie’s iDashboard real estate software account – where they can manage prospects with handy Buyer Match tools, Email Campaign tracking, CRM and much more. iProperty’s website packages and property listings management software are design to work in harmony with eachother. Get in touch for a demonstration and a better understanding of everything we offer.
