A Portal for Real Estate Agents

Date 2005/2/17 15:49:22 | Topic: Reasons for joining this portal


SellOrSeek for Agents is a portal for real estate agents.
It offers you - the agent - the ability to:

  • Manage the details and photos of your properties and store them in a central database, through an easy user-friendly interface.

  • Modify the content of 'static' web pages (if they have been set up to support this).

  • Share (some of?) your properties with other agents that use the same database, in such a way that you have full control over who shows which property where.

  • Manage your contacts, in relation to your properties.


And all that for a price you can AFFORD!
Pricing is very simple and straighforward.
There is no entrance fee. You pay 75 € per month for all facilities described below.

If you do not have your own website, you can use the database to promote your properties through www.SellOrSeek.com (see below), and/or show them on the websites of the other agents that use the sharing facilities of SellOrSeek for Agents. Contact us for more details and pricing.

Any agent can join SellOrSeek for Agents and use the agents' site and database.
That gives you access to the following:

  • Property Management
    Module 'Property Management' lets you upload and maintain the details and photos of all your property resales, new developments and/or rentals that you wish to show on your public web site, through an easy, user friendly interface. All property details are stored in a database.
    The module includes advanced technology that allows you to upload pictures regardless of their size and dimensions: the system will resize and cut them automatically to the size that you wish them to appear on your web site.

    Your webpage(s) will have to be adapted to show the properties that you have uploaded to the database. The changes can be small, if you are content with a more or less standard way of presenting the property listings and details. It is however possible - and recommended - to have your own look-and-feel - see below.
    Property Management module logo

  • Content Management
    The 'Content Management' module can be used to manage the contents of other web pages than those showing your properties as well, so you can keep them up-to-date without (expensive..?) help from your website developer.

    Once your website is adapted in the right places to cater for this, every part of your site that you want to update regularly can be modified with a user-friendly WYSIWYG ('What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get') editor. This editor can be used for simple changes to texts and pictures, but if you are so inclined and have the skills for it, it offers a lot of functionality for more sophisticated modifications as well...
    Content Management module logo

  • Sharing Management
    The 'Sharing Management' module is based on so called 'Sharing Groups'.
    You and other agents with whom you wish to share your properties can form your own Sharing Group(s). You - and they - first select those of your properties that you wish to share with the members of a particular group. Then, you - and they - specify which of the properties that your sharing partners have made available to you, will actually be shown on your site.
    The module offers functionality to do these things in a simple, user friendly manner.

    This concept - intentionally different from what our competitors are offering - was developed to make it possible to have your own group with just a few people that you know, totally separate from all other agents also using the portal, if that is what you prefer. Your own private sharing environment, if you will...

    On the other hand it is just as possible to be a member of more groups at the same time, or share with the generic group that everybody can use, called 'ALL', a sort of common pool for everybody wishing to share with anybody else.
    Sharing Management module logo

  • Contacts Management
    Module 'Contacts Management' facilitates the data entry and maintenance of details about the contacts that you have in relation to your properties: Owners, Agents, Clients, Prospects, Gestors, Lawyers, etcetera, anybody you like, really.

    You can enter contact details and other data about these people and/or businesses, and then link them to the properties that they are associated with. This link itself can be used to store information specific for the contact in relation to a certain property, like appointments and things-to-do.
    Contacts Management module logo

  • Private Messaging
    The system has a built-in internal messaging system that makes it possible to communicate with other members, without leaving your 'administration area'. You can see if your sharing partners are online as well, and can receive your message immediately.Internal messaging logo


Small changes to your website

There is in general no need to re-build your website. In order to show the properties stored in the database, only your 'properties' page needs to be changed to point to the SellOrSeek for Agents' web server. With respect to Content Management, some changes to your site will be necessary; it depends a lot on what you want, really..


Personalised look-and-feel

If you wish we will - for a small fee - provide a personalised look-and-feel with regards to the property listings and property detail pages.
That is significantly different from other sharing systems that always show all property listings and all property details in an identical manner, regardless of the website that they are shown. We can provide you with your own unique identity, eventhough your property details and pictures are retrieved from the same database as those of other agents...


Leads generation through SellOrSeek.com
All your properties will be shown on http://www.SellOrSeek.com as well, if you so wish. Because this site ranks quite high with the major search engines, it will generate leads for you!
Want proof? Just go to www.google.com and try out the following key words (without the quotation marks): 'property in andalusia', or 'property in andalucia', or 'andalusia rentals', or 'Costa del Sol property to rent'.
You will find Sellorseek on the first or second page, sometimes at no. 1 or in the top 3...



We build WEBSITES !

You may have guessed by now: if you do not yet have your own website, or are nor satisfied with what you have: we can build a completely new website for you as well:
For example a - more or less standard - real estate website, that is designed to make use of all facilities mentioned above.
You can also have a website with it's own database and administration area behind it, similar to the functionality offered by this portal, but without the sharing module - in other words: your own private "Real Estate Management System".
And if that is not what you are looking for: of course, you can get whatever you like.
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