Feb
21st
The tool allowing homeowners to display pins on the map next to the homes for sale, in order to “sell their neighborhood” is a freakin’ success! More than 1500 pins were added on the map in various areas of Canada!
This success however created a problem in some areas where it was too popular. That’s why we’ve implemented a new fonction in the map search. A on/off “NEIGHBORHOOD” button is now available on top of the map, allowing the visitors to hide or show the neighborhood pins.
Here’s an example :
Feb
21st
The Open Houses feature will be redesigned in the following weeks.
Organizing an open house day is a great way to attract visitors and potential buyers. If you got any suggestions concerning this tool, now is the moment!
Nov
9th
When you’re looking for a new home, you are searching for a house. But you’re also searching for a place where you’ll feel great and which will correspond to your lifestyle. So we’ve decided to develop a new tool that will allow our customers to “sell their neighborhood” to potential buyers!
In their online account, our clients have access to a new web page where they’ll be able to describe places of interest around their home. Schools, restaurants, parks, hospitals… It can be anything, as long as you feel like it is part of the reason why you love your area. You can see below for instructions on how to use this new tool.
The items saved by the private home sellers will be displayed to the website’s visitors in the map search interface. Arrow markers will show up next to the other markers. Clicking on those markers will open an info window with all the information entered by the home owner.
How to add my places of interest on the map ?
Here’s a little tutorial guiding you through the basic steps of adding neighborhood markers on the map :
- Take a walk down the street and take some pictures of the cool places around; (640×480 would be perfect);
- In your ByTheOwner account, click on the Your Neighborhood button;
- Optional : Fill in the address fields, the map will then position a marker automatically;
- Click on the map to make sure the marker is on the right spot;
- Type in a brief description that will communicate your passion for your neighborhood to potential buyers;
- Click the “Add” button. Voilà!
Note that you’ll be able to complete and modify the description later. Now, let’s see how to add your pictures :
- Click on the “Browse” button;
- Go get the picture on your computer and click “Open”;
- Press the “Go” button;
- You can select your pictures order by dragging them (if you have more than one, eh!);
So… where is Canada’s coolest city?
May
1st
ByTheOwner.com will be integrating in the next days the use of RSS feeds for the diffusion of the ByTheOwner Alerts. The visitors searching for a property will be able, with a single click, to create a RSS feed corresponding to their search criteria, and thus to be the first to know when the house of their dream gets live on the website.
RSS feeds are soooo cool ! But… why?
A RSS feed (Really Simple Syndication), is a XML file which a Web site diffuses in order to spread easily its contents. From the feed’s url, one can daily consult the new contents of the site without being forced to go on the website. Okay… so what? Why wouldn’t you want to go to the website?
