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Written by Paul Dobie March 23, 2006 Wondering if anyone out there has any ideas about where I might find a database suitable for Real Estate / Property Rental Listings. Slick searchable databases displaying a product (with several other thumbnail images) seem to be a dime a dozen everywhere but I cannot locate an off the shelf product.
At this stage I don't have a budget from the client for it but I am not looking for anything too sophisticated. And I figure if I can show him a potential solution and give him a costing I might get a budget. The sort of thing I am looking for similar to that used on teneriffeforrent.com.au/rent.shtml
Any help appreciated. Thank you.
Best Regards
Paul Dobie
Written by Sarah Hayes
March 24, 2006
Hi Paul,
There are a couple of open source and low cost solutions that should do
just want you want. I have used both with my preference being for the
Mambo and Hot Property option.
1. Open Realty is open source software and has been around for many years. Open Realty will require a little more server side experience to
get up and running and to customise the look of the pages, but the
installation instructions are easy to follow.
2. Mambo (open source) and the Hot Property add-on component (cost less than £100).
I use Mambo a fair amount these days and Hot Property is a
component that has been developed for Mambo and Joomla so it is fully
integrated. You can also use Open Realty with Mambo but it isn't fully
integrated. With Hot Property you can provide RSS feeds of the latest
properties. It is also easy to customise if you want to sell cars
instead of houses. Once you have Mambo up and running it will take a
matter of minutes to install Hot Property and you're ready to go. Mambo
has a great community and support forum so if you have any problems you
should be able to find someone who can help you very quickly.
Best regards,
Sarah Hayes
bromleynet.co.uk
March 24, 2006 I just found this product yesterday and it may or may not suit your needs, but it's an open source application: Open-Realty is free web based listing management application. It is intended to be both easy to setup and use. Written in PHP, Open-RealtyTM is designed to be a fast and flexible tool for your website. I have a real estate site myself and intend to install it and see if it works for what I want. They have a demo and I thought it looked quite good.
Thank you,
Chris Nielsen
river-towers.com
Written by Viggie Bala March 25, 2006
"Slick searchable databases... seem to be a dime a dozen everywhere but I cannot locate an off the shelf product." - Paul Dobie
It's not clear whether Paul is looking for a solution in CGI or PHP or
ASP etc. This site have off the shelf PHP-MySQL solution. Their lite
version ($49) seems to be sufficient. You can find more no. of specific solutions at hotscripts.com.
Regards,
Viggie Bala
viggie.com
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