Property for sale – added feature
Filed under: Blog, Site Announcements Responses: 6 Comments
In a continuing effort (and as part of a staged development of Zoodle) to enhance the information on the website we have added a new feature to all suburb pages – property for sale as listed currently on realestate.co.nz.
We have no intention for Zoodle to become a listings website to in any way challenge of compete with realestate.co.nz – that would be dumb!
What we have done is provide just 5 properties that are for sale in the suburb at this time. The logic being when people are researching on Zoodle a local suburb being able to see the type of properties for sale will provide good context of information on the property market and maybe trigger an enquiry on a property.
In addition the choice of which property to feature has been made easy by listening to our customers who use the realestate.co.nz website as they tell us what they like and don’t like about property presentation. The key fact is that with realestate.co.nz we cannot influence directly issues like accurate price details, masses of photos, clear address … and many other things that visitors tell us about. On Zoodle we can hand pick just 5 that match these criteria.
The properties we feature have to have these components:
- Accurate address
- Detailed price
- More than 5 photos
We place the properties in sequential line up with the latest listing first. Each property is linked directly to its own report page which makes for easy referencing. It is also worth highlighting that on the realestate.co.nz website for any lisitng you can see details of how many people have viewed a listing and from where in the world over the past 4 weeks. Just click on the link on the details of how many time the listing has been viewed as shown below.
really neat site easy to use very helpful nice clear photos will recommend to firends etc
Christine
Thanks for those comments and for having a read of the blog – great to hear you will share this with friends – we want everyone Zoodling!!
It would be really clever to have a “preferences” saved on your profile (such as price range, area, bedrooms) that integrates with the listings shown.
e.g. show five 4 bedrooms between $450k and $500k in the area you are looking – this would be more relevant to the viewer and get a better click through rate.
Charles
Thanks for this suggestion. Whilst I can see what you are suggesting, I would have to clarify that Zoodle is not designed to be a property listings site – we feature a limited range of property on the market on Zoodle – all sourced from realestate.co.nz.
The realestate.co.nz website is the most comprehensive website in NZ for real estate listings. Today we have over 116,000 listings of which close to 80,000 are residential properties. On the site you can save favourite properties, set up email alerts and RSS feeds – that is the best way to manage the view of the property market as a buyer.
Hope this helps – let me know if I have interpreted this correctly
Great site,especially for those unfamiliar with a region/suburb.Searched in Torbay]Sealy Rd]then clicked icon ‘PROPERTY FOR SALE”directed to Dunedin property…teething I suspect
Kerry
Thanks for the feedback – great to have you using the site.
I have checked out the links from properties in Sealy Road and from the suburb page on Torbay and I can’t replicate this problem – I will keep looking but if there is any particular page you were looking at it would help enormously.