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September 2021
September 2021
As part of our ongoing efforts to improve our system and also stay up to date with the changing technology requirements of each MLS, we have created an entirely new IDX Widget that was released to half our clients back in January.
Now it’s also mandatory that we transition the rest of our Realtor clients as well (i.e. MLS Listing, CCAR, Bridge MLS). This transition will happen October 1, 2021, so you have time to migrate any existing Listing Alerts to other systems (most of you already use these features provided by your broker or MLS organization anyway).
This new widget/system is a major improvement over the old system, it has a modern layout with a beautiful large map (and many layout options), better search filters, and is much, much faster. But there are a few rarely used features (specifically "Listing Alerts" and "Favorites") that we have not yet been implemented on the new platform (because they are used only by a handful of people), so these will be temporarily unavailable ...
January 2021
January 2021
We are getting a lot closer to our 2.0 launch, and in the process we are finishing up the new versions of the functionality required to fully replace all features on the 1.0 system. And we are also porting some of these features back to the 1.0 websites. One important feature for Realtors is the widget to search Properties from the local MLS. Our new widget is much improved and has been working wonderfully for the past 8 months on the websites of the private beta clients using our 2.0 platform (see Geoffrey Nelson's Hillsborough Blog or Steve Lessard). This new widget has major improvements over the old system, it has a modern layout with a beautiful large map (and many layout options), better search filters, and is much, much faster.
The new widget is being activated on 1.0 websites in phases. Starting January 19, all BAREIS and SFARMLS feeds will receive the new widget. This is mandatory because they are phasing out their data feeds used by the old system (and only the new widget ...
June 2020
June 2020
Our 2.0 platform is almost ready for public use! We are finishing up some of the final MVP admin control panel features, working on stabilizing the code and optimizing performance. At the moment we are working with a select few clients who need a new website and are willing to be private beta testers.
We've just finished launching one of these new sites, for a client that has been with us for at least 14 years!
Check it out directly at Geoffrey Nelson's Hillsborough Blog website to see the elegant and modern design, which is mobile responsive with subtle animations and finishing touches. This design is called "Sken" and is free to all users, although Geoffrey has made some minor personal changes to customize it to his taste and communication strategy.
Let us know what you think! And if you are interested in a new website that is modern, beautiful design, built on a robust, enterprise level platform with a powerful API, granular team and visitor user permissions, content ...
June 2018
June 2018
We have great news for all our Realtor Clients in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Due to historic MLS rules, only brokers were allowed receive the live MLS feed for San Francisco property data. But we have now been given approval to offer this feed to all agents who are members of SFARMLS.
So if you've been wanting to allow your visitors to include San Francisco homes in their MLS search on your site, you now have the opportunity! Approval is easy for all SFARMLS members. Just send us a support email requesting this and we'll get you activated immediately.
Broker Partner Discount
The costs will is comparable to other MLS feeds, at $35/mo. But if you are an agent with one of our broker partners, we'll provide you with a discounted price of $25/mo (along with other broker related benefits). If you are interested in learning more, or helping your broker become a partner, read our Agent Website Solution overview and then have your broker contact our sales team ...
January 2015
January 2015
In order to display your properties as a beautiful brochure, we always recommend entering your properties manually into our property tool. That lets you upload gorgeous full screen images, videos, and special information to create a compelling "Single Property Website" for each property. You can even assign a unique domain or friendly URL to each property. Another advantage of uploading your own properties is that you can keep a long list of your sold properties, as a portfolio (and include exclusive pocket listings).
However, if you are too busy to take the 5 minutes necessary to maintain a list of your own, you can enter your official Agent License Number to create a Property page that shows all your properties that are available on the MLS.
This is easy to accomplish by creating an MLS Property Page. When defining the filter for MLS Property Page there are two fields:
- Listing Agent License (represented the seller)
- Selling Agent License (represented the buyer)
If you want ...
January 2015
January 2015
We've updated the Real Estate property search for MLS IDX feeds, so that if the MLS provides the information, you can now search by neighborhoods in the normal "Location" field. That means the location field is smart enough to parse searches for:
- City
- County
- Zip Code
- Neighborhood (e.g. Haight Ashbury)
- Street Address
- Street Name
For convenience, the Neighborhoods auto-complete as you type any portion of the name (to make sure you spell them right), just like city and county have always done.
We've also added a few other new fields to allow more granular property searches for MLS IDX feeds, e.g. horse property, pets allowed, stories, etc.
February 2010
February 2010
We are proud to announce the launch of a new flagship Gutensite website for Alain Pinel, a local Luxury Real Estate Broker with about 1300 agents in the San Francisco Bay Area. We created the first Bay Area Open House Search website, which has integrated live property data from the four independent Multiple Listing Services in the area. This in itself was a Herculean feat, since they all follow separate data standards, so we had to create a shared standard of our own. The new seamlessly integrates this data, and provides additional features such as: map based searches, property mapping, street view, directions, favorites, RSS subscription, email alerts, and open house route planning for multiple properties.
Alain Pinel has created this site as a way to save them hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by weaning themselves off weekly print advertising for open house announcements which costs them a fortune. This website can not only save them tremendous amounts of money, but it also ...
August 2009
August 2009
We're cleaning house and slowly giving a makeover to all the designs for default specialty content pages. Most recently, we just redesigned the property list and details pages in keeping with the clean, modern theme that characterizes all the new default content. All our clients who didn't customize their property pages, will benefit from this free upgrade, giving their sites an instant refresh.
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