As a real estate agent, it is essential to have a functional, user-friendly
website where potential buyers can easily browse listings. Installing the
best IDX plugin for WordPress will ensure that your potential clients get
the most accurate and current results possible.
Whether you are a solo real estate agent or part of a bigger brokerage, having
an online precense is a critical part of finding and closing sales. Not only
do many people start their search online before contacting an agent, but a
place for your existing clients to search and view properties can help
increase brand awareness and give you more authority in your local market. Building a website from scratch can be a big project, though, and it doesn’t
always make sense to spend time and money on custom website development. That’s
why we’ve focused on building
a plug-and-play solution to easily
creating WordPress IDX websites for your real estate business. With that in mind, this post is aimed to give you a general idea of what it
takes to build a real estate website to display and search your MLS
listings: Sections Select a domain name and hosting provider Choose a free or paid theme Install the SimplyRETS plugin Add pages and short-codes
One of our biggest goals at SimplyRETS is to make it easy for anyone to build
real estate software with listing data by creating simple and modern web
development tools that that reliably normalize data from any MLS feed. This is why we’re excited to announce the newest feature we’ve been hard at work
on: SimplyRETS now supports RESO Web API data feeds.
Code and Coffee w/ SimplyRETS At SimplyRETS, we try our best to make using our API and services a simple and
pleasurable experience. This article describes some simple tips geared towards
maximizing the stability and performance of your SimplyRETS application.
Map real estate search apps
are a great way to enhance web app functionality and user-engagement. They can
be significantly more user-friendly to use for real estate listing search
utilities than standard html forms. Many features in the SimplyRETS API are
built with this specific use-case in mind. SimplyRETS real estate map search For the uninitiated, SimplyRETS leverages your RETS or
RESO Web API data feed to provide a more modern and robust API for developing real
estate software using listing, open house, and agent data from your MLS. Our
services are designed to be simple and effective for any developer to use
productively. In this tutorial, I’ll outline how to build a simple map-based search app using
the SimplyRETS API. If you want to skip to the code or follow along with a
complete sample, you can use our
Github Examples Repo.
We’ve prepared a live demo with the code from this tutorial
here. Sections Background details Getting set up Include dependencies Adding JavaScript Drawing on the map Calling the listings API Conclusion
At SimplyRETS, we’ve been working diligently on giving brokerages and developers
an easier way to build apps and websites using Real Estate listing data. We’re
excited to announce that over the last 4 weeks, we’ve added fast track support
for 8 new Real Estate Associations: Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) My Florida Regional MLS (MFR MLS) Calgary Real Estate Board (CREB) Kitchengton-Waterloo Association of Realtors (KWAR) Massachusetts MLS Property Info Network (MLSPIN) Southeast Florida MLS (SEF MLS) Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors (GLVAR) Santa Cruz County Board of Realtors (SCCBAR)