Estate Agent Web-Site - similar to rightmove ?

[S Isaac]

Hi, does anyone know if there is a template (opensource?) for a property rental/estate agency similar to rightmove.co.uk ?

I've been advised that wordpress has templates that can be used for this sort of thing, but I wouldn't know where to start.

Any suggestions please ?

[OldWelshGuy]

Rightmove is a 6 figure site and then some. So you will struggle to get enywhere near that using WP. That said you can probably get one coded, although I would go for Joomla rather than WP (if you are new Joomla would be better than Drupal)

[S Isaac]

Thanks.

Are these all open source communities/promgrams ?

I'm trying to set something that allows the agents to log in and update/upload their own properties, which I think is kind of how rightmove works.

I just want similar search facilities i.e.
buy/rent
house/flat/land
number of rooms
min/max prices
and ability to sort by price/distance maybe even date added etc.

[city_web_studio]

I think you are looking for something similar to this.:

http://citywebstudio.co.uk/demo/real2/

[S Isaac]

Yeah, that's kind of what I'm after.

Would that allow me to give other estate agents the ability to upload their properties onto the site while I maintain overall control of the site ?

Also, please can you let me know if you can help with the hotel portal (see link below)

http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=145954

[Big Pete]

Hi, does anyone know if there is a template (opensource?) for a property rental/estate agency similar to rightmove.co.uk ?

I've been advised that wordpress has templates that can be used for this sort of thing, but I wouldn't know where to start.

Any suggestions please ?


We do joomla estate agents sites in our sleep , well not in our sleep but pop them like peas out of a pod..

Pm me .. ;)

[Faevilangel]

I have built 2 estate agents websites using www.open-realty.org. It has 2 systems a cms to allow you to update pages etc and a seperate system for estate agents to login and add properties. It's an open source program and it's so easy to use.

[awebapart.com]

I'm trying to set something that allows the agents to log in and update/upload their own properties, which I think is kind of how rightmove works.
You need to do more research on how rightmove works. Most of this is done automatically via feeds, the big estate agents, after updating their own websites, haven't got the time to also manually upload and update house details on other websites like rightmove, primelocation etc. The big estate agent's websites export the feeds to rightmove automatically.

As OldWelshGuy says, if you are trying to mimic rightmove, then you are talking a lot of money, like the money rightmove spent (http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=587980).

Estate Agent Web-Site - similar to rightmove
There is a world of a difference between an estate agent site, and a site like RightMove. Rightmove is not an estate agent site like a local independent estate agent would have. RightMove is more like an estate agent comparison site / portal / directory / search engine.

[Ampheon]

We've built a competitor site to Rightmove, and have a lot of in-depth knowledge on how Rightmove works, including search algorithms, upload mechanisms, agent and buyer / tenant notifications and more. RM is a 6-figures sum, and realistically to replicate it, or even come anywhere close, you would be looking at 5 figures.

You'll be unlikely to find anything open source out there that matches anything near the functionality, particularly because in the UK market there are a lot of nuances in the listing and search algorithms relating to property and agent locations, and upload feeds that an off-the-shelf open source package would be unlikely to handle.

[city_web_studio]

I have sent you a PM Issac

[Martin-S]

Most of this is done automatically via feeds, the big estate agents, after updating their own websites, haven't got the time to also manually upload and update house details on other websites like rightmove, primelocation etc. The big estate agent's websites export the feeds to rightmove automatically.

Actually, the majority of agents update their portals automatically - and improve the reach of their marketing by feeding properties to more portals than could be justified when updating them manually - by using estate agency software like ours!

:)

Martin

[awebapart.com]

Most of this is done automatically via feeds, the big estate agents, after updating their own websites, haven't got the time to also manually upload and update house details on other websites like rightmove, primelocation etc. The big estate agent's websites export the feeds to rightmove automatically.
Actually, the majority of agents update their portals automatically - and improve the reach of their marketing by feeding properties to more portals than could be justified when updating them manually - by using estate agency software like ours!
That's why for estate agent websites, I'd normally recommend (http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=202030) specialist off-the-shelf estate agency systems, which have the automatic feeds to the likes of RightMove, PrimeLocation etc already built in.

[Martin-S]

Exactly right. We build and hosts the websites for our clients, as well as providing their software, for real-time integration.

Having a dedicated page on your website for each of your properties has become an important part of making the most of some of the free-to-list property portals such as Globrix, as well as for seo.

Any web developers that are working with estate agents are more than welcome to get in touch to discuss our integration options.

Martin

[AmberSite]

Give me a shout if your budget is tight, might be able to help you out.

[city_web_studio]

haven't heard from you. Have you dropped your plan or given project to someone else...thanks

[Place of design]

cost to market

Estate agent sells a house for £250000
Estate agent charges 2%
Estate agent fee = £5000

So if I said that developing your site for £10000 was good value for money...

Its just 2 sales for the average estate agent

Point being - I wouldnt charge 10K, but if the business model is right, you can afford the fees of a decent development team

[S Isaac]

Sorry, it's all early stages still. Will go through all PM's etc once I've decided what to do.

Not dropped plan, just getting myself in a position to be able to make things happen when the decision is made.

[sanjiv]

PM'ed you mate :)

[steve76]

Hi there did you get an answer to whether wordpress has a plug in so that for a lettings website users (landlords) can register and upload their own property details? This I guess would be similar to how estate agents can manually upload property to sites like rightmove.

[Place of design]

Hi

We have recently done a site with the spec you are looking for. We would be very interested in discussing your needs with you. Drop me a PM, we can start a discussion

Regards

Richard

[DotNetWebs]

Has anyone here worked with the Rightmove .blm file format?

I have written a parser that can read the file supplied by the estage agent and upload it our own site here:

Horsham Property (http://www.visithorsham.co.uk/property.aspx)

It only displays a fraction on the data available at the moment but we have recreated the entire Rightmove data model.

The reason I mention the .blm is that is one way this problem could be tackled. i.e. create the data in .blm format. This would then be in a format that could be submitted to Rightmove (although it would obviusly cost to do that)

Regards

Dotty

[zilabee]

We have our own CMS and can offer you a solution based on ASP.NET. We can show you some samples of Estate agent sites.

[printinglocal]

You can have this site for £300: http://www.ablets.co.uk , I set it up a while ago but never got round to doing anything with it.

Thanks

k

[Professional Real Estate]

Dear all;

I was browsing the net and I came across a new site called eSimsar.com . its a SAAS model (Software As A Service) without any program to download or software to install, users will be given a username and password to access the application and benefit from its services. Estate Agent, Developers and Landlord can manage their units, tenants, leases and payments in addition to many others,

The site is in Beta version, its worth checking.

Hope its helpful .

warmest

[Professional Real Estate]

Dear all;

I was browsing the net and I came across a new site called eSimsar . its a SAAS model (Software As A Service) without any program to download or software to install, users will be given a username and password to access the application and benefit from its services. Estate Agent, Developers and Landlord can manage their units, tenants, leases and payments in addition to many others,

The site is in Beta version, its worth checking.

Hope its helpful .

warmest

[Cabling Engineer London]

[quote=S Isaac;1164749]Hi, does anyone know if there is a template (opensource?) for a property rental/estate agency similar to rightmove.co.uk ?

YES! just Google "rental trader" and you'll see press release on page#1 called "How We Built Rental Trader - UK Property Portal Website" - It's as good a place to start as any :)

[PropertyBuyerCash]

DId you manage to get your website off the ground.

ADRIAN



Hi, does anyone know if there is a template (opensource?) for a property rental/estate agency similar to rightmove.co.uk ?

I've been advised that wordpress has templates that can be used for this sort of thing, but I wouldn't know where to start.

Any suggestions please ?

[adam1987]

http://www.pattayacondoguide.com and http://www.homelandasia.com have created similar websites.

I am working on one too ;)

[ag1design]

Hi DotNetWebs could you possibly share your parser with us?

Thanks
Alan

[DotNetWebs]

Hi DotNetWebs could you possibly share your parser with us?

Thanks
Alan

Well I have to admire your cheek! Your first [anonymous] post and you want me to give you something that I spent a few days developing, testing and refining: for FREE! :eek:

TBH I am not sure how useful it would be to you any way. It is written in C# and parses the data into my own custom types.

So it would only really be of use in a .net application will a similar architecture to Visit Horsham (http://www.visithorsham.co.uk/).

Regards

Dotty

[bigfork]

We have built similar sites but to as big as Rightmove which is massive. What is your market and niche? I wouldn't recommend copying rightmove as its already been done.

[CompitSystems]

Thanks.

Are these all open source communities/promgrams ?

I'm trying to set something that allows the agents to log in and update/upload their own properties, which I think is kind of how rightmove works.

I just want similar search facilities i.e.
buy/rent
house/flat/land
number of rooms
min/max prices
and ability to sort by price/distance maybe even date added etc.


we recently finished a estate agents project on wordpress, its simple and includes all those features you are looking for, easy to manage through friendly admin panel, can be optimsed for SEO too,

here is a link (http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/www.sowerestates.com) and let us know if you would like any assistance in setting this up for you.

[scooke]

Hi,

I have just released propertywebshop.com for listing property advertisements constructed through an admin section. To make the website more reachable to agents I have been looking at the option of receiving xml feeds of property listings.

The question is, would anyone be able to advise on receiving xml feeds? So many websites or agent specific software seem to define their own xml format. I could define my own which work great with my site, but in practice would an agent get a developer to export to my specific format, or should I just aim to take in say rightmove v3 format which is more likely already set up in many agent's systems?

Thanks
Simon