Storm Biz Uses EZ Realty for our property websites
Property websites are on the rise due to more and more Realtors turning to the internet to promote their properties. This special component is an absolute necessity for running a professional property website.
EZ Realty is an easy-to-use property listing component for Joomla content management systems. Also, just because something is easy to use doesn't mean you have to settle for little in the way of features or a low-quality presentation that requires hours of custom modifications. EZ Realty was designed with presentation in mind - to make your sales listings look great! It also doesn't matter what sort of site you want to run - EZ Realty has the flexibility to run a site for your own listings, multi-agent listings or a community sales portal offering free and/or paid listings - EZ Realty is PayPal/Setcom enabled to do it all!
For example - to run a sales portal - start your site off in "free listings mode" to establish a membership base of listings with quality information, progress on to the "combined mode of operation" where you offer free listings with the option to pay for upgrades - and suddenly you've got a money-making site. As the success of your site grows - you can then progress onto a "paid listings only" basis if you want - and now you've got the opportunity for some serious income.
EZ Realty can be used by:-
- A single agent wanting to list his/her own business listings
- Multiple agents employed by a single business to list their individual listing responsibilities
- Multi-agent co-operatives wanting to list on a shared site
- Online entrepreneurs wanting to run a FSBO property sales portal - or anther type of portal - eg. student accommodation, couch surfing, B&B's, camping sites etc
- Property investors wanting to display their own properties for rent, sale or lease etc
You're only limited by your imagination!!
EZ Realty Features
Quick Install
It takes a minute to install EZ Realty on your web server - and another couple to install the multitude of modules available. Yes, it's that quick to get things installed.
Multiple Business Models
EZ Realty is designed to meet the needs of multiple business models - from the single agent real estate business listing properties for sale, multi-agent businesses, and community sales portals offering FSBO listing services. Simply configure it to meet the needs of your business model.
Profiling System
EZ Realty allows your sellers to promote their business, and share their contact details. Supports multiple contact methods, including direct contact, snail mail, email, telephone, SMS via Clickatell, and 3 online messaging systems. New in version 5.2.0 are profile privileges - enabling your members to manage more aspects of their listings such as publish/unpublish, skip the paid listings process, reset the expiry date and more. Profiling privileges are an excellent way to keep employees out of the backend - yet allow them certain privileges normally only accessible via the admin area.
PayPal and Setcom enabled
Turn your EZ Realty-powered site into a money-maker with the paid listings functionality. Two sales levels allow you to charge for upgrades from free listings to "premium" and "featured" listings - or run in paid listings only mode. EZ Realty currently has 2 payment processors to enable the automatic upgrades of paid listings - PayPal and Setcom - which should meet the needs of a wide variety of customers.
Expiry Management System
Limit your listings based on page impressions or time - eg. 30 day listings. Easy to use "clean listings" function to remove expired listings, and email notification for expired listings.
SEO
EZ Realty comes with support for SEF Advance, and also works on the core Mambo/Joomla SEF system - so you've got two SEF-friendly URL choices for your property listings. Also, add a meta description and meta keywords to your description, and the meta title is generated from existing data. Our SEF Partner Denis Dulici also offers a range of products - including sh404SEF, JoomSEF and X-Map addons for EZ Realty - so you're sure to find something to meet your SEF needs.
Easy Layouts
Front-end templating system makes changing the layout of data on listing pages and the full details page. Four different layouts are currently available for the listings pages, and 8 different layouts are available for the full details page along with 6 different image layouts - producing a mix-n-match combination of 48 possible full details page layouts to choose from. Layouts include tabbed pages, javascript image rollovers, slimbox/lightbox image system slideshows, and javascript slideshows.
Configurable opening page
Choose the opening page style that suits your needs. EZ Realty provides a choice of entry pages - the standard category layout, main search filter layout, or a combo layout which combines a compact search form, top localities and MLS/ID search field. It's easily configured via the EZ Realty admin configuration area.
Multiple currency support
Version 5.2.0 introduced true multi-currency support. Run your site listings with a default currency set via the EZ Realty configuration area - or allow your members to list their properties in the currency of their choice.
Professional Image Presentation
In an industry where looks is everything, EZ Realty gives you a top-quality image display system. Templates come with Javascript rollover images, and some have the slimbox image system available. List up to 24 images with image descriptions - they're uploaded, thumbnailed and resized during the save process. Version 5.2.0 introduces image watermarking - to give your sold and featured listings a distinctive look.
VIP Buyer's Register
Don't miss sales opportunities just because you don't have a listing people want. The VIP Buyer's Register allows you to collect details of purchaser requirements, and display those on the front-end as a "wanted properties" listing page. Communicate with other members of the sales team on the status of a lead via the notes area, and send emails of listings matching requirements via the VIP email notifications. Emails sent to people on the VIP Buyer's Register contain a summary of key property information, an image and the seller details - as well as a link to the property listing and an unsubscribe link.
Mapping Support
Comes with Google mapping support built-in - which autocalculates decimal coordinates based on the property address, or allows you to enter your own coordinates - and supports driving directions and configurable map views.
RSS 2.0 Feeds
Two RSS 2.0 feeds - new property listings and open house days.
External Feeds
Four feeds to external property listing sites to enable you to get broader exposure for your listings - Google, Vast, Oodle and PropSmart - with more on the way.
Cross-component integration
Seamlessly tap into other components such as MyPMS or uddeIM for personal messaging, save newsletter subscribers directly to the Letterman newsletter component or export saved records for import into other systems, and promote user interactivity with the jReviews commenting and ratings system. More J1.5x newsletter component integrations are also on the way.
Customer Tools
Cross-browser "add to favourites" bookmarking function, recommend to friend email, print property details, contact seller/agent, add to mailing list request. Add to mailing list requests are now saved to database, and can be exported in XML format for import into a mailing list manager.
Multi-Lingual
EZ Realty has multi-lingual support - meaning it is coded with language tags and has a language file system to enable the translation of embedded page text. It also comes with a set of JoomFish and NokKaew content element files to enable you to translate the database content.
Multiple ways to search
EZ Realty has search filters, zip/postcode radius search, find property by ID/MLS ID #, keyword search, agent/seller search and more. It also comes standard with an Australian postcodes CSV file and a US zip codes database files ready to populate your database.
Out-of-the-box functionality
As of version 5.2.0 - EZ Realty has a new system mambot/plugin to insert custom code into your template header, and a new module/plugin to insert custom code into the debug module position. This means you no longer need to worry about modifying your template with special code needed by EZ Realty's special features and addons. It's all handled via the automatic installer.
Bonus Addons
Comes with a range of addons at NO additional cost:-
- RealtyMap component and associated system plugin to display all of your listings on a single big map
- Mortgage calculator module
- Loan calculator module
- New property listings module
- Random property listings module
- Single featured listing property spotlight module
- Multiple featured listings module
- Featured agent module
- Latest sellers module
- Seller search module
- City/state/zip/postcode keyword search module
- Midsearch module for sales/rentals using 3 key variables
- Multisearch module
- Top localities module
- Slideshow module
System Requirements
EZ Realty is not a "stand-alone" script - it's a component developed for use with the Mambo/Joomla! content management systems. As a "database-driven" PHP script, EZ Realty requires:-
- Either the Mambo or Joomla! content management system - versions available for Mambo 4.6x, Joomla 1.0x and Joomla 1.5x native.
- PayPal or Setcom account if wanting to offer paid member's listings
- MySQL database - tested on servers running versions 3.23.54 - 5.0.27-standard.
- PHP scripting support - tested on servers running versions 4.2.2 - 5.2.0
- IonCube encryption support. Most servers support this system, and you can download the free IonCube loaders from IonCube. Please ensure you've got the correct encryption support prior to purchase.
- Your server settings should also allow communication by EZ Realty with the Raptor Services licensing server. This is done via fsock by default, and we have a curl system available as a secondary option - as well as an alternative for servers that don't support either of these connections or if you're in any way concerned about the reliability of these connections.