New Site (Real Estate)
Saturday, October 6th, 2007I’ve just made a new site for a dear friend of mine, Codi-Rose Collins. She is a real estate agent down here in Burbank, CA, and so I thought I would go about and set her up with a site that listed local listings.
What did I get myself into?! Real estate websites are by far one of the most complicated I’ve come across. In fact, there’s a website dedicated to helping Real Estate Webmasters. Real Estate listings are in a database that is controlled by certain companies, which there are many per state. The site listed above lists them, how you get in contact with them, prove you’re actually doing something with Real Estate, and then you get access, which I still have not done.
So, what’s the alternative? Well, APIs sound fun… I took a look at many of the sites out there; Zillow and Trulia were the most interesting. Zillow will provide you with a lot of information, the closest to what I want, but still not listings of homes to buy. It will get you a home evaluation and comparables, and Trulia can get you a lot of market information.
I did look at many more sites but my search ended with those listed above. There are some bad side-affects of using APIs, and if you do look at the site Codi-Rose Collins you will see that I have to have links to Zillow all over the place. I will quite possibly remove Zillow, or may just thoroughly increase its use to make the links worth it.
Anyway, thats a quick update on Real Estate Sites.
-Kerry
P.S. I just finished DMS v4.0 (look for a blog).