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Global Estates opens another door in Real Estate

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Well known and established real estate agency in the West Rand, Global Estates, has opened another branch in the area named Global Estates Platinum. Owners Christiaan Myburgh and Neal van den Berg , whom is well known for their real estate services with Global Estates West Rand, opened another branch that will service the Krugersdorp and Roodepoort area.  These two award winning owners share their passion for real estate and have assembled a well qualified and experienced team to look after your every real estate need. Christiaan and Neal are both no strangers to our systems and products and assigned us to create a new responsive Flex Website for their Global Estates Platinum branch.  The new website for Global Estates Platinum is based on our Elevate Theme. Visit www.globalestatesplatinum.co.za We have various templates for real estate agents to choose from, like with Global Estates Platinum, we can change the front end of the website to completely translate your co

Our new standalone listing syndication platform is now offically called Sync

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Entegral has, over the past 12 months, completely redeveloped their listing syndication platform. The platform is now known as Entegral Sync .  Sync simplifies the complexity of publishing listings to multiple property portals. It also greatly reduces the operational cost associated with maintaining multiple feeds and is the perfect solution for real estate organisations who have their own listing management system.  The platform is build from the ground up to use the latest cloud technologies, and automatically scales computing resources based on demand. Advanced features such as auto failover is provided. The platform is supported by a dedicated team while automated health checks continuously monitors for any problems.  Sync provides lightning fast listing updates to portals that provide real time feeds and has already been implemented by a number of national and individual real estate offices in South Africa. Sync's biggest client, is however Entegral's ve

Showcase your sold property listings on your Flex Website

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Many of our clients have asked about this feature in the past because to some this does have some marketing value. Real Estate agents often ask us to have all their sold property listings showcase on their website to show the general public that they are indeed specialists in the industry, know their areas well and have the expertise to sell a property on behalf of a real estate owner. With our Flex responsive real estate website, clients will now be able to create pages dedicated to showcasing their sold stock to the public, like a brag page almost. When an estate agent has sold a listing, the status of the listings can be changed in the OMS to Sold (Registered). Change the status of your Sold listing by Opening the Mandate in the OMS -> Status ->Sold Registered -> Save Changes  Order an additional page for your Flex Real Estate Website to showcase all your Sold listings individually.  By ordering a custom menu for your Flex website at only R199 excl VAT you can add the

Show more search options with your Flex Real Estate Website

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Due to numerous requests we've amended the search functionality on our responsive real estate website product, Flex . Entegral clients that already have their own Flex website will now have the option to either keep their search functionality with less search options at first glance or they can change the way their search functionality displays and have more search options available immediately. Originally, as on www.protearealestate.co.za ,  the search functionality was designed to display as follow: Visitors can search by selecting the status, entering the area or reference number and do a quick search. The "Options" link enables clients to open a more advanced search function with more search options such as price minimum and maximum, property type, number of bedrooms and bathrooms: This advanced search option can now be show by default should you wish to change the way your search displays once your site has been opened by your website visitor. The search will stay c

Why Tweeting your property listings with Twitter Cards is a great idea

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There are so many great free social media platforms for us to use and if utilised to its maximum potential you'll see great results from your efforts. One of the great features that's not frequently used by real estate agents or perhaps isn't general public knowledge, is a feature from Twitter called Twitter Cards. What is a Twitter Card? Basically, a Twitter card is a tweet generated from your website, that contains a photo (or video) along with your tweet. "It is designed to give the reader a rich photo experience, and clicking on the image brings the user to your website", according to www.twitter.com  Why you should add Twitter Cards to your website By adding this feature to your Flex website you'll gain better visibility on Twitter, increase the traffic to your website, your tweets will surely look more attractive, your brand image will get promoted and you'll be able to increase your business' followers . Here is an example of an Entegra