Real Estate Listing & MLS/IDX Integration
About the project
The application has properties and real estate agents listings. It allows end-users to browse the listings based on their preferences to buy and also provides a platform to sell their property. It has many different categories to list like map view, new listings, open houses, luxury properties, communities, etc.
Client Overview:
Client is a leading real estate company located in the USA. They are providing personalized and comprehensive approaches to sell and buy properties.
Industry
Real Estate
Problems:
- They wanted a better way to list their properties, map view, different filters, etc.
- Performance optimization, they had millions of properties due to that taking a lot of time to render the listings.
- They wanted real-time integration with MLS/IDX feeds so that the property’s price, availability status should be up to date.
- Wanted new module that allows end-user to sell the properties
Planning & Development
- Google map implementation for better visuals of properties, added many filters to search the properties for a better match
- Elastic search integration for better search results, resized images while fetching from MLS feed and stored in different sizes
- Real-time MLS integration, keeping properties listings sync till max 10min
- Created module to allow end-user to sell their properties & evaluate the market price
- Ability to search agents with their past buy/sold properties
Impact
- Significant enhancements in UI/UX, leading to improved user experience.
- Getting faster search results, improved listing page load time
- Better search results, narrow down the search results with the help of filters
- More user engagement
Tech Stack
- PHP, Laravel, MySql
- Elastic Search
- MLS/IDX, RETS