DwellIcious for OpenRealty and WordPress

Posted on June 1, 2009
Filed Under Real Estate News, Real Estate Websites | 1 Comment

There are plenty of real estate websites that have clever user enhanced features in order to provide their visitors with the ability perform certain tasks like compare listings, bookmark listings, or maybe register for updates in order to receive notification of changes to properties they have interest in. These are pretty common features and some more involved real estate websites may even provide home seekers the ability to save their search results for future reference. Optionally, a home seeker could potentially receive updates to properties meeting their search criteria in several different formats such as RSS, email or by SMS messages direct to their cell phone. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some of these features available in one location regardless of the sites you visit? Its a feature destined to surface and it has, in the form of a free online social networking service for real estate websites called Dwellicious.
Dwellicious WordPress OpenRealty
Dwellicious social bookmarking is to real estate what delicious social bookmarking is to blogging. With Dwellicious a registered users can visit Dwellicious empowered real estate websites all over the web and selectively add their own an inventory of favorite real estate listings to their Dwellicious favorites in order to not only instantly share the listings but compare properties, receive updates, and even examine dynamic demographic data about the listing courtesy of Zillow. Having added the Dwellicious feature to several Open Realty sites in the past weeks, we wasted no time in building a template inclusion file to provide a way to integrate this feature in with relatively little effort (aside from configuration time which can be a few hours). The results are thus far rather impressive and the ability to have social bookmarking for real estate listings is unlike any previous methods we have employed.

For myself and my associates who build real estate websites as a profession, we understand that the way to answer consumer demand is to provide the bigger better deal in home search functionality. Plainly put, provide as many features necessary to be of good quality service to the home seeker. Nearly all real estate websites provide at bare minimum general information in service to their market, but cutting edge websites that appear to be setting the standard will enhance the home seekers experience by providing as much detailed information about each individual listing as they officially can. This may include, map search, street view, demographic data which could include schools, employment and even agricultural or census data. But part of the experience is also a visual one that may include things like charts, calculators or even slideshows for featured listings among many other things. For the for-mentioned reasons it has been the key motivating factor in the development and publishing of all of our FREE plug-ins and add-ons for WordPress and Open Realty. Now, with this service provided by Dwellicious, once it is implemented into a real estate website, should prove to be one of the most important features a site owner could offer. It is my opinion that Dwellicious is going to be as big as any of the macro services currently so popular in social networking and it is my gut feeling that integration with other services is on the horizon.

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  1. Maybe were on to something…. « Lightning | Twice June 3, 2009 10:43 am

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