by Ryan OGrady, on 18th December, 2009 •
In conjunction with Fairfax Digital Agentpoint built Colliers International a website for their latest portfolio ‘Clever Investments” showcasing a number of commercial properties Colliers have available for sale.
We developed a cool property cookie widget which remembers the properties a user last viewed and displays them on the homepage next time they return to the website. We also build a pdf table widget which displays the search results or favourite listings in a pdf table which can easily be printed or emailed.
The project was delivered in less that 2 weeks and showcases how Agentpoint can streamline the development process as a result of years of real estate development experience.
Filed under: Featured Website
by Ryan OGrady, on 5th December, 2009 •
Richardson & Wrench Seaforth/Balgowlah came to Agentpoint needing a entire online marketing solution. There website uses the Zoo Property listing system along with all of our juicy WordPress plugins. One of the goals for the website was to automate the building of the clients enquiry database. To do this we build a plugin which remits all enquiry details back into the client’s CRM system so they’re sure all contacts are added.
The property page includes all of the usual groovy widgets including mortgage calculators, stamp duty calculators, suburb profile, google map, latest sales, similar listings and favourites widget. Make sure you look at the search results page and how we have synchronized the search results filter with the quick search.
Filed under: Featured Website
by Ryan OGrady, on 30th November, 2009 •
Capital Property Advisory is Australia’s leading independent residential property advisory firm. They came to Agentpoint requiring a website which could showcase their skills and experience in this area. Although we were not responsible for the design we did transform the psd design into a wordpress website.
We built a small wordpress plugin which popups when users first land on the homepage and prompts them to subscribe to the latest property advisory news. The plugin is working well and is allow Capital Property Advisory to build their database.
Filed under: Specialist Websites
by Ryan OGrady, on 18th November, 2009 •
Atwell & Co are a real estate agency based in Melbourne, Australia. They had an existing website which wasn’t flexible and was very poorly optimised for search engines. We ported the website across to WordPress keeping the original design and style.
This is the first real estate website built using our newly launched property listing software Zoo Property. The site also uses the latest in our WordPress technology which was built specifically to synchronise with Zoo Property. What is great about our new technology is that we do not need to host the site or application meaning website owners have the freedom to move the site at their convenience.
Filed under: Custom Websites
by Ryan OGrady, on 26th October, 2009 •
We’ve been working closely with Australian Property Monitors to develop a Worpdress real estate widget which allows real estate agents to display property sales data alongside their property listings. You can check out a live example of the plugin at this Colliers website we recently launched http://www.investassured.com.au/125423.
The widget displays a summary of sales statistics for the suburb the property is located in along with a flash enabled graph for median house and unit prices over the past 10 years. In the demographics tab you’ll find handy information regarding the demographics of that suburb.
This plugin will work on any WordPress website so contact Agentpoint or APM for further information.
Filed under: Plugins, Website, Wordpress
by Ryan OGrady, on 22nd October, 2009 •
In anticipation for the release of WordPress 2.9 there has just been a recent release of WordPress 2.8.5. Some updates include:
The headline changes in this release are:
- A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
- Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
- Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
- Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.
Can’t wait for wp 2.9 they are currently beta testing it so Agentpoint will get involved with that.
Filed under: In the News, Wordpress
by Ryan OGrady, on 20th October, 2009 •
Units Agency is an agency attempting to carve its way a niche in units & apartments for sale across Sydney. It’s a very crisp and clean design which was created by the client and converted into the current website by Agentpoint.
It uses a large amount of Javascript to hide/display information which is viewable on demand by the user. There is a nifty Share plugin which allows website users to quickly share the website or property pages with Social Networks. It users the majority of the other real estate widgets and plugins developed by Agentpoint.
Filed under: Featured Website
by Ryan OGrady, on 28th September, 2009 •
Agentpoint was commissioned to build a real estate website for Colliers International who are contracted to sell real estate belonging to the Defence Housing of Australia (DHA).
Closely working with Fairfax Digital, the site synchronises with some of their network services including MyDesktop and Australian Property Monitors (APM). MyDesktop is used to list and manage the property listings, the website remits registration, property enquiries and page view data back to Mydesktop.The site also displays live property sales data streamed directly from APM.
Filed under: Custom Websites
by Ryan OGrady, on 1st September, 2009 •
A new plugin we have created converts all properties in your real estate office database into posts through the WordPress blog and automatically creates real estate tags specific to the property and its location.
What does all of this mean? It will increase the size of your sitemap by around 500% because around 6 website pages are created for every current property and all future properties added to your website. The headline of the post is the headline of the property ad while the post description is the property ad description. At the top of each post we have the property type, listing type, type of sale and address of the property which are all keywords which property seekers are likely to search Google for.
Because everything is automated we are also generating automated tags which search engines love. The tags are specific to the property location and property type, lets take a look at this listing http://www.brealt.com.au/2009/08/acreage-lifestyle-close-to-cooroy/. We have:
363 Lake Macdonald , Cooroy, Qld
House For Sale – $780,000
The tags which are automatically generated are: Buy House Cooroy , House For Sale Cooroy , Real Estate Agent Cooroy , Real Estate Cooroy , Sell House Cooroy.
If the property was for lease, a different type (eg house) or in a different suburb the tags would be different. Each one of these tags creates a page in WordPress which is then included in the sitemap and sent to Google. This plugin is so powerful as the sitemap for this website http://www.brealt.com.au/sitemap.xml has gone from around 30 pages to over 600 pages in the matter of seconds. So 570 pages packed with property descriptions, headline, address and keywords property seekers can type into Google.
This is only possible due to features of the WordPress CMS system and how search engine friendly it is.
Filed under: Buzz, Knowledge, Plugins, Website, Wordpress
