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As most of you know i own a wholesale office supplies company, but i've be asked to be part of a new project by some business associates of mine that we hope to set up as another company. The project involves Real Estate, and my task is to build a Real Estate Portal similar to http://www.rightmove.co.uk/ - Now the portal idea was suggested by one of my associates, but i fail to see how that would achieve what we are wanting to achieve as a portal is merely a search engine.
Now obviously i can not go into details as to what the project entails etc. But want i need help and tips on is how to build a real estate portal. I know some scripts are already available as software/script packages, but we want something different from the majority - obviously for SEO and search engine ranking reasons.
Basically we want for both private and estate agents to be able to list properties for sale, rent/lease where they can list for a fee or list in bulk for a set fee determined by number of listings. Now i have done some research and i have seen about IDX and MLS listings, but they are not what i think we need, as we want is for real estate agents to come to us directly by offering them better value, rather than have the same listing feeds other sites use, where they merely earn a advertising commission for successful sales like an affiliate would earn.
So if anyone has any experience in this field or website design or in real estate itself, then please feel free to post away with any help, advice or tips. You may have, or if you know of any software/script packages that are fully customizable, then please post details. I have googled but myself not knowing much about the real estate industry means am not having much joy finding out what i need to know to build the site. I have plenty of experience with building eCommerce sites etc, but a portal is something i have never attempted before, and as i said, am not convinced a portal is what we actually should be building.
As most of you know i own a wholesale office supplies company, but i've be asked to be part of a new project by some business associates of mine that we hope to set up as another company. The project involves Real Estate, and my task is to build a Real Estate Portal similar to http://www.rightmove.co.uk/ - Now the portal idea was suggested by one of my associates, but i fail to see how that would achieve what we are wanting to achieve as a portal is merely a search engine.
Now obviously i can not go into details as to what the project entails etc. But want i need help and tips on is how to build a real estate portal. I know some scripts are already available as software/script packages, but we want something different from the majority - obviously for SEO and search engine ranking reasons.
Basically we want for both private and estate agents to be able to list properties for sale, rent/lease where they can list for a fee or list in bulk for a set fee determined by number of listings. Now i have done some research and i have seen about IDX and MLS listings, but they are not what i think we need, as we want is for real estate agents to come to us directly by offering them better value, rather than have the same listing feeds other sites use, where they merely earn a advertising commission for successful sales like an affiliate would earn.
So if anyone has any experience in this field or website design or in real estate itself, then please feel free to post away with any help, advice or tips. You may have, or if you know of any software/script packages that are fully customizable, then please post details. I have googled but myself not knowing much about the real estate industry means am not having much joy finding out what i need to know to build the site. I have plenty of experience with building eCommerce sites etc, but a portal is something i have never attempted before, and as i said, am not convinced a portal is what we actually should be building.
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