Understanding Sections of Estate123 - Updated
When estate123.com first started, we start by letting you to post only the basic property information. We then enhanced the function to also let you to post videos to your posting before adding in the Google Maps functionality. Finally, we introduced Neighbourhood, a section where you can tie your property to a neighbourhood in which members that share information about a neighbourhood will be linked to your property posting.
Since there are so many sections in the property details page, today we would like to share with you on details of each of the sections in the estate123.com’s details page. To begin, below is the screenshot of the details page for the commercial and residential page.
Let us explain in details about each of the sections. Today we will cover the first for section in the details page. We will update this posting again to cover the remaining 4 section later:
Section 1: Property Details
This section shows the information for a property posting. The main header is actually the name of a property; follow by weather the property is for Sell or for Rent. The information of Sell or Rent will be displayed based on the action that you select (Rent or Sell or both). When you select “Sell”, the label “Sell” will be displayed in the property title when visitor views your property posting. So, you do not need to write your own title such as “Metropolitan Square for Sell”.
Next are the City/Area/Location and also the State. Please make sure that the City/Area/Location is written based on the exact location where the property is located. For example, Damansara Perdana or Mon’t Kiara. Do not put as 2 locations for example Damansara Perdana, Petaling Jaya. This is because based on the specified City/Area/Location provided; your posting will be displayed in the Related Property section (See Section 8 ) if a user is viewing other property that is located in the same City/Area/Location that you specified. For example, if a user is viewing a property in Damansara Perdana, your posting might appear in the Related Property section if you put the City/Area/Location as Damansara Perdana. If you put Damansara Perdana, Kuala Lumpur, your posting will not be displayed in the Related Property section.
Other information is mainly information for the visitors to know more about the property that you posted.
Tips: For the City/Area/Location, make sure you select from a dropdown list that will appear as you type in the text box. The suggested selection actually comes from the property posting from other members. So, if you select from the selection, your posting might appear in the “Related property” section if a visitor views their property posting.
Section 2: Neighbourhood Information
If you wish to provide more information to the visitors about your property posting, make sure you tagged your posting to the Neighbourhood information. By tagging your property posting to Neighbourhood information, you not only allow the visitors to learn more about the location of your property but your posting might be displayed in the neighbourhood website as well.
You can only tag 1 neighbourhood to a single property posting. If you wish to have more then 1 neighbourhood, then you should make sure of the “Nearby neighbourhood” when tagging your property posting to neighbourhood information. To learn how to tag your property posting to neighbourhood, click on this link.
Tips: Tagging your property to a neighbourhood will allow your posting to be displayed in the main page under the section (Property tagged to neighbourhood). This way, your posting will be more prominent to the visitors, but this section will only show the latest 5 postings that is tagged to a neighbourhood.
Section 3: Owner/Agent’s Details
This section shows your contact information and if you are registered as an Agent, this section will also show the number of commercial and residential property that you have posted in estate123.com.
You can choose to display your contact number and also email address in this section. If you wish to hide this information, read one of our blog posting at “Hiding your profile”.
In this section also, visitors can send enquiry to you by clicking on the SMS Owner/Agent or the Enquiry button. Clicking on the “SMS Owner/Agent” will allow visitors to send SMS enquiry. This way, you will be notified via SMS. The “Enquiry” button will allow visitors to send you online enquiry. When online enquiry is sent to you, you will receive email notification informing you that an enquiry is pending for your action. You will have to login to estate123.com Leads Management to view the enquiry and then action on the enquiry.
At the moment, you will have to manually send email to reply or call the potential customer because the Leads Management system do not include a function for you to reply to the potential customer via the system.
Tips: If you have more then 1 property posting and you are a property agent, make sure that your account is verified so that the details page will show all the postings that you have posted in estate123.com (Commercial and Residential). If you are not registered as an Agent or your account is not verified, these details will be hidden. Find out more about the agent details here in this blog posting “More on Agent’s Details”.
Section 4: Location Map (Google Map)
This section shows the location of your property if you plot your property into the Google Map when creating your property posting.
Plotting your property posting in estate123.com (Commercial and Residential) into the map can be useful to the visitors to know the exact location of your property.
Tips: Find out the more about plotting your property to the Google Map here from the following blog postings at estate123: Insight; Map your postings with Google Maps, Map search is the way to go…, More reason to use Maps when posting and Map, Satellite and Hybrid View.
Section 5: Video Walkthrough (YouTube)
Section 5 of the property details page shows the video walkthrough. Video walkthrough is very useful when you wish to show the visitors your property first hand before arranging for actual viewing session. To learn about how you can include video for your property posting, click here.
Tips: Find out the other benefits of posting video in your property posting in these 2 postings in estate123: Insight; Video in your Property Posting and More about video in your postings.
Section 6: Images
You can include up to 12 photos of your property. It is advisable that the dimension of images that you include is not too small because the image will look distorted when it is displayed in the images section.
Please do not include website address in the photo. The administrator will reject a posting if website address (URL) is found in the photo. You can include your agency logo on the bottom right of the image if you wish to protect the image that you upload.
Section 7: Load Calculator
The loan calculator tool will only appear if the property is available for sale. The “Principle/Sum of Amount” will show the selling price of a property.
The Interest Rate and the Time Period is set by default to 6.75% and 30 years respectively. The “Simple Interest” and “Monthly Payment” will be automatically calculated based on the Amount, Interest Rate and Time Period.
Section 8: Related Property
The “Related Property” section shows other property where the City/Area/Location and also the property type that is similar to the one that the visitor is viewing but will randomly show 5 postings only.
If you wish to have your property posting listed here, make sure that the “Area” that you provide is of a location instead of providing more then one. For example, if you use “Damansara Perdana” as the area, your posting might be displayed in the Related Property where visitor is viewing property from Damansara Perdana. If you put “Damansara Perdana/Damansara/Kota Damansara” wishing that it will appear in one of them, you will notice that your posting will not appear in the Related Property section for any of the area mentioned. So make sure you only put a single location.
