Newest EstateVue Features Archives - Brokers focused in Canada

New Feature – Custom Neighbourhood Data Map

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 21:27:03 +0000

We have another addition to our ever-growing library of features in our EstateVue WordPress plugin, our Custom Neighbourhood Data Map. This map can be custom made to show neighbourhoods and their listings in any city, with real time data taken directly from the CREA DDF (Unified Data Feed), on any WordPress website.

If you’re looking to innovate and separate yourself from the sea of realtors that exist, who are using all of the same tools, then we have a product for you.

Before we get into how this tool can benefit you and your business, let’s quickly break down all of the features within this amazing new tool.

Drawing subareas and selecting listings

Each map can be custom drawn to show the subareas in your city, and pull the listings in real time.

As you can see on the right, we have drawn each subarea within Kelowna, and the cities across the bridge on the other side of Okanagan Lake. With these subareas, we are able to pull the listings directly from the DDF. When zooming in on the map you can see more and more listings start to show, and you can click on a listing to see an overview of the listing, and then click the listing to view the listings full details.

Select Listing Type

The map will load with Single Family homes by default, but our map allows the user to select any property type. They can view all property types, or any property types they desire by selecting and deselecting the property types in the filter.

These property types load inline, meaning the user will not have to reload the page or click a button to see the results. Because this map is completely custom, it wouldn’t be complete without custom designed map markers for each property type, making this map stand out against all of the generic maps most realtors use.

Viewing Statistics

Located to the bottom left of the map is the viewing statistics. These statistics show 2 things: The number of properties being viewed at that moment, and the average price of the homes being viewed. This tells the user how many homes are available in specific areas they are viewing, and the average price helps them determine whether they can afford real estate in that area.

As you can see in the video to the right, these numbers also change in real time, allowing the user to get the information they need in seconds. This feature beats out any of your competition, as most realtors are using generic map searches that don’t even include this information.

Price Heat Map

We have also built in a price heat map into this tool, and once you click the button to enable the heat map, you will be shown where the prices are highest and lowest in each section of the city. Of course just like all our other features above, this happens in real time.

Map Styles

Here at EstateVue we are not just real estate web developers, we are also graphic and web designers. We understand how important the style of your website is, and how important keeping that style consistent throughout your website and branding is. So we have built in 4 different styles for this custom map, so it fits within your design.

Greyscale – This style works well with designs that are meant to be clean, with lots of whitespace. It can even work with a clean site that has some bright accent colors, such as red, green, and a cold blue.

Streets – This is the classic map look that Google Maps uses, and is recognizable and still a favourite amongst most people.

Dark – This style is a bit different but works great for darker website themes. Though it may not show as much detail, it can look great with the right WordPress theme.

Satellite – As with the “Streets” style mentioned above, this style is quite common and well known to anyone who has used Google Maps. It gives a satellite view style to the map, show a real time detailed map of the area.

Neighbourhood Color Scheme

As you can see in the video to the right, the neighbourhoods are using a teal – dark teal color scheme. These was done to match the clients branding, and can be done to match any branding and color scheme of a website.

At the bottom right of your screen you’ll see a box that shows the average price color legend. When choosing your color scheme, you’ll want to choose a color to begin the gradient, and a color to end it. Our system then takes those 2 colors, creates a gradient map, and then applies them to their corresponding prices in the map itself.

Upcoming Features

As per usual, we are always looking to improve our tools, so we will be building the following upcoming features: Historical price comparisons, and custom property type selection.

Historical price comparisons - Imagine providing a tool to your customers that allows them to compare properties in real time, comparing the current price with past pricing, giving them two powerful metrics to narrow down their search for the best deal.

Our new historical property price will keep people coming back to your site for a long time. Increase the quality of your leads, and save time finding the right property.

Coming soon....

Custom property type selection - This feature is exactly how it sounds. Currently the map loads Single Family homes by default, and has ALL property types available for the user to filter through. But we are going to build in an option for you to choose which property types are available.

How is it useful for realtors?

I’m sure you’re wondering at this point why you would want this tool, and how it can be beneficial to you? The first one of the most important, is standing out from the rest of the crowd. Many real estate agent websites come pre-packaged and look very generic. Most have the same look, and use the same tools. Having a custom map tool like this shows your users that you are professional, and put the time and money into something you know will make your users lives much easier.

Local Marketing

Local marketing is critical when it comes to being a successful real estate agent in your city. Showing your users that you know the local area and market, and that you put this much effort into your city, shows them you care more than the average realtor.

Using a tool like this you can focus your marketing strategies in your local area, both online and in person, giving you more opportunity to attract new customers, as well as networking with other agents in the area.

In conclusion, if you’re looking to add an amazing tool to your website that will benefit both you as a realtor, and your users, this custom neighbourhood map is a must. Contact us at EstateVue for more information and how we can get this tool into your website.

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New Feature – Polygon Search Tool

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 19:33:10 +0000

We have a new feature integrated into our software that allows us to show properties in a specific area on a map. This is great for agents looking to target specific neighbourhoods, or even developments in your city. For example, if you specialize in listings for a golf course development, you can draw the polygon around that golf course and only the listings from the development will show up.

With this tool you can also build out an entire Neighbourhood section on your website and easily show listings in a specific area, without having to worry about the confines of the data feed and their neighbourhood filters. You can show listings in specific buildings, areas of interest and custom neighbourhoods tailored to your marketing strategy

The polygon area even shows up on the frontend of the website so the user knows exactly what the boundaries are. The user also has the ability to switch between the map and the listing grid, so the experience is catered to what they like. This unique local tool is sure to keep people coming back to your website for a long time.

If this has peaked your interest contact us today, and we can discuss the different packages available for you.

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Improved Facebook Integration

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:10:35 +0000

Our WeBuild product now has improved Facebook integration! WeBuild sites now support Facebook Page integration (so you can attach your Facebook business page without displaying your personal profile information). Here's how:

Log into your EstateVue WeBuild admin, and click "Preview Site" to get to the homepage
Click the "Add a Site" button from the footer.
Choose "Facebook Page"
Copy and paste the URL of your Facebook Page into the box, and follow the instructions onscreen to give EstateVue Social permission to publish your page's information to your website.

If you need assistance, please contact EstateVue Support at 1-855-448-4131.

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Social Share Tool

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:27:49 +0000

Social media is the primal force behind modern marketing strategies, and now with EstateVue’s new Social Share Tool, using it to promote your listings has never been easier. The Social Share Tool is a fully integrated component added to your listings allowing the freedom to instantly connect and share your listing(s) through the most popular social media platforms available. Administrators can also check the interactive data to measure the success of their own marketing while seeing how the general public interacts with their listing. Promoting a specific listing has never been so easy, and with quantifiable results, you’re always in the know about your campaign’s progress. The Social Share Tool – one of the many way we’re changing the face of real estate software.

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EstateVue Presents: The Dashboard

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:19:56 +0000

In any business communication is key. Balls getting dropped and memo’s getting missed just won’t cut it when you’re running a well-oiled machine, but never fear – we have the perfect solution. The Dashboard by EstateVue is the ultimate engine to run your business and to keep everyone on point. The Dashboard is an internal communication tool providing interconnectedness throughout your entire business; from peer to peer, broker to agent, and even between clients. From the dashboard, all users can keep up to date with important dates via the shared calendar, new listings, articles, memos, direct messages, or virtually any update other participants or admins contribute, keeping everybody (literally) in the same page. Users have the freedom to highlight or favourite any and all materials pertaining to them, ensuring once again that everybody is moving forward with their details in order, and with a common goal in mind. Whether you’re sharing files, reviewing new listings, sharing articles and news, or sharing a calendar event with your peers, The Dashboard does it all, and does it great, ensuring you never miss a beat again. Links – Just when you thought the days of saving magazine clips for your colleagues and photocopying them by the dozen and into the digital age of website bookmarks couldn’t get any better – it did. The Dashboard has a links management service which allows super admins to add articles for all to see, or for agents and colleagues to share with each-other as well. All links can be favourited and saved, as well as categorized in a customizable way so every user can tailor the service to their preference. Saving and sharing articles and pages with your colleagues has never been so easy. Kiss the days of mass e-mails and bulletin boards goodbye and make way for The Dashboard. Files – Whether it’s a spreadsheet, word doc, PDF, or other file type, sharing your files has never been so easy. Instantly upload your files for your colleagues to see and share, or access important documents added by the super admin to make sure you never miss a beat. The Dashboard also allows the customizability everybody dreams of by including folder management features giving each user the unique ability to categorize their files as they please – one of the many friendly features of The Dashboard. News – Nobody likes being out of the loop. Ever. So to make sure you’re always on point and up to date, we’ve made it so you need one news source – period. The Dashboard is a single point of contact for all the latest and greatest news related to your industry. Super admins and users alike are able to share articles for all to see, as well as having the benefit of saving favourites and organizing them info folders for your convenience. Sharing news and staying in the loop has never been so easy. Calendar – Having an organized calendar is arguably one of the most important components to keeping everything running smooth, whether you’re an agent or a broker. Being disorganized is also one of the worst feelings you can have as a professional, because even the notion of missing a meeting can lead to some sleep-loss. So, what did we do about it? We created the most customizable and organizable calendar imaginable, tailored specifically to your real-estate needs. Our colour-coded interface makes it easy to categorize and divide your appointments, events, parties, birthdays, and everything in between. There’s even a category for shared events, taking your connectivity, yet again, one step further, while providing the convenience of viewing your schedule by the day, week, or month. To create an event, simply select the date, time, location, recurrence, and colour-code, and voila! Your perfectly organized, colour-coded, custom view event is ready to go. Sharing events with your colleagues is now only a click away thanks to The Dashboard. Need & Trade – Have you ever wondered to yourself “Gee, I wonder if there’s someone with the perfect listing for my client.” But never knew how to act on this idea? Well, we’re here to tell you that now you can with The Dashboard’s Need & Trade tool. Simply send requests that reach your colleagues with details of what you’re looking for, whether you wish to trade the listing or not, and see what comes back. Now you’ll never be out of touch with exactly what’s out there, and with whoever’s got it, pushing you one step closer to finding your client their perfect home. Favourite Listing – Every agent takes part in the daily battle for the perfect listing, and though this may not be an easy task, we just made it a whole lot easier. The Dashboard is not only capable of sharing and live-updating all listings on the MLS, but also provides you with the convenient freedom of archiving appealing listings in the Favourite Listings feature. Now, you’ll never lose track of your findings, while also seeing live changes that are made to any listings you decide to save. The search for the perfect listing has never been so simple. Contact Realtor – When you’re looking for results, you need prompt answers; so to take some of the heat off, we’ve created an agent to agent messaging system that’s bound to get you hard fast results. The Dashboard’s Contact Realtor tool is an internal communication tool allowing agents and brokers to contact eachother directly about any and all listings to get near-instant results - because when you’re trying to make a sale, time is always of the essence. Time is money, so let us save you some time, and leave you to take care of what you do best – sell real estate. Search Listing/Listing Preview – Thanks to The Dashboard, browsing the MLS has never been easier. Not only are you able to favourite your listings, you can complete a precisely refined search based on location, subarea, price range, bedroom/bathroom number, keywords, MLS ID#. Property type, and even the year built. The search feature also has two unique viewing layouts, where the listings can be viewed horizontally with more in-depth descriptions of the properties, or tiled with only prominent details listed, for those more intensive searches. The listings also have their own unique preview pop-up which provides the agent with any detail their heart desires without losing where they were in their search. We really meant it when we said searching listings has never been so simple. Compose Message – An open line of communication, whether it’s peer to supervisor or peer to peer, is a vital component to any business model. We decided to take it a step further and make everybody a literal click away. The Messaging feature allows all agents and brokers to contact eachother within the The Dashboard, as well as providing users the ability to send outbound messages to clients or other e-mail addresses. We’ve also integrated a notification feature that sends each user an e-mail notification for each new message they receive on their Dashboard account, ensuring nothing gets missed. True connectivity – courtesy of EstateVue.

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Single Page Property Website

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:43:49 +0000

This exciting new listing tool allows us to develop a customized website specific to the house that is being sold. To learn more about this exciting marketing tool please click here.

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Calgary Regional Search Tool

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:34:27 +0000

This exclusive EstateVue search tool allows clients searching for property in Calgary to break down the city into its respective quadrants and neighbourhoods. By leveraging this exclusive tool, people will flock back to your website to search for properties. Increase your leads and your exposure by using the exclusive Calgary Regional Search Tool.Search by QuadrantPick the quadrant you are interested in and easily drill down to see specific results.Search by RegionPick the neighbourhood you are interested in and easily drill down to see specific results.Browse Properties in Full ScreenView each property in high resolution allowing the user to maximize their experience.Want a new search tool for your area, let us know!

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Social Media with True Site Integration

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:21:40 +0000

When people are visiting your site, how would you like to keep them there rather than having them re-direct off to Facebook or Twitter? Now you have full control through our innovative Social Media Portal. With our Social Media Portal we keep every visitor right where you want them – in your site!Social Media Portal Setting Up Your Social AccountsSetting up your social accounts is as simple as plugging in the link to your site manager. Once you have done this the little icons will show up in the footer and header of the website. Another great feature about this tool is that everytime one of these accounts is referred to it is tracked in our social media statistic interface.Social Media Stats

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Real Estate House Tracker

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 14:46:43 +0000

EstateVue House TrackerBeing able to track new real estate listings and price changes to properties that come on the market has never been easier. Simply sign up and you will be able to manage your profile to ensure you receive the latest updates. The EstateVue House Tracker has shown to improve reach by up to 200% and generate significantly more leads.Rich HTML EmailsVisitors will be sent rich HTML emails that describe the properties that fit their criteria either daily or weekly. Track Your Leads & Review Email ProgressIn the control panel you can see exactly how many people have subscribed to your house tracker email newsletter.

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Instant Chat Tool For Your Website

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:25:57 +0000

The coming of the digital age has given us the power to instantly connect with those important to us, and now we’re taking that one step further with the new Instant Chat Tool. This interactive real estate messenger feature is designed to keep you in touch with your clients and for them to keep in touch with you; and that isn’t even the best part. While logged in to your EstateVue website, site owners can not only see if and when somebody’s looking at their website, but they can instant message the viewer themselves to try and create new leads by asking if they’re looking looking for a specific listing, need some help navigating the site, or if they have any other inquiries. Connectivity has never been so sweet and easy.Initiate a chat in real time. Store past chats and communicate instantly with visitors to your website.

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