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uPrice portal discontinued

We have received notice from uPrice.co.za that the portal will be discontinued on 30 November 2015: This notice is to inform you that we have taken the decision to discontinue our price comparison business ( uPrice.co.za ) in order to focus on our core eCommerce business at uAfrica.com. uPrice.co.za will be switched off on Monday, 30 November 2015. The listing interface in the OMS for uPrice has been de-activated. Please keep an eye on our blog for new portal partner announcements.

A look at Twitter polls for real estate

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Twitter makes it easy to set up polls. Click here for a real world example (19 November 2015) from our property portal, MyProperty and vote what will happen to the South African interest rates today: https://twitter.com/MyPropertySA/status/667199929350234113 To setup a poll in Twitter, simply create a new tweet, click the poll icon and configure your choices. New polls created runs for 24 hours. For polls to be effective, you need a lot of follower (to vote). So it may help promoting these individual tweets through twitter ads for the day. With Twitter polls, people can weigh in on all the topics they care about, and helps you understand what they think.   Here is more info on Twitter polls: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20174524?lang=en

Susan Curtis Estates Namibia launches new Flex Website

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One of the top selling agents along the Namibian coast, Susan Curtis Estates , joined Entegral to be their real estate technology partner and provider.  This award winning real estate agency boasts with real estate agents with years of experience in the industry and together with her team, Susan Curtis established an agency that specializes in the selling and renting of property along the coastal towns of Swakopmund and Longbeach  in Namibia. Being in the business for many years, Susan and her team understand that the image you portray to the general public is of utmost importance.  They made small changes and added a personal touch to their corporate identity that now clearly showcase their impeccable taste and knowledge of their market.  With their valuable input, it was easy for us to create a responsive designed website, based on our Elegant Flex Theme, and incorporated their vision in to the template.   After much planning an easy to navigate, informative and beautif

Flex updates: property banners and custom property features

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PROPERTY BANNER UPDATES Banners on Flex real estate websites have been tweaked to better align with photos. It will now show Sold, Pending Sale and On Show banners in search results and display more prominently on property details.   CUSTOM PROPERTY FEATURES The OMS allows you to define additional property features , that displays as checkboxes on your listing capture form. You can have distinct features defined for residential, commercial and agricultural properties. Simply add them (comma separated) under your office settings:    It will then be available on your listing capture form: When you select these features, it will now pull through to your Flex powered real estate website. Here are some examples:   These features are also hyperlinks , so visitors can click on them and view all your listings tagged with those features. You can now get creative on your website, we can include a menu link for you to filter for specific listings tagged with features or cre

OMS Property24 interface – larger photos

The OMS now supports larger format photos to the Property24.co.za portal. New property photos uploaded will be sent through in a large (1024x768px) format. (Old listings captured before today will be kept as is).

New franchise themed flex website launched for Century21 Wildlife in Hoedspruit

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A very prominent real estate agency in Hoedspruit , Century21 Wildlife , is now also one of the many real estate agencies who moved from having an ordinary website and mobile website to having one responsive website, suitable for all devices.  Headed by Rob Severin , this real estate agency is probably one of our most enthusiastic clients when a new feature or piece of technology is made available to help better market his business.   Century21 Wildlife is a real estate agency based in the bushveld that consists of agents whom has a combined passion for nature, wildlife and property. The Century21 Wildlife team specialises in the selling of game farms and lodges, bush houses, vacant land, guest houses, retail property and small holdings in the Hoedspruit area. www.century21wildlife.co.za When visiting their Flex Responsive designed website, you will find all the information needed about this beautiful wildlife area, the surrounding areas, estates and suburbs in Ho