Real Estate

Location, location, location. Isn’t that what Real Estate is all about? So if that’s your business its time for a change.

Leading businesses such as Bayleys and The Professionals are amongst those who realise that they will sell more property if they make it easy for people to find it and to visualise where the property is and what is in the neighbourhood.

Amenities

People have different requirements, not just about size, price and outlook, but amenities also play a major role in deciding on what property to buy. Families with young children will want to be close to schools and parks. They might want to be within walking distance of shops. Elderly people might want to be within easy distance of a medical clinic or perhaps a bowling club. Being handy to a bus route might be another asset.

Web maps will let you know how close you are to a motorway or main routes. Is it really close to the beach or parks? People will trust your site if you use SmartFIND because they can see it for themselves.

Proximity to the workplace might be important, especially for rental properties. An investor might be keen to see properties within 1km of a major employer such as a hospital, or perhaps a university.

Open Homes and Auctions

If you are going to go to a lot of trouble to set up an open home, you want to get as many people viewing it as possible. A map displaying Open Homes on your website would b a powerful selling tool. Make it easy for people to see what is available for viewing on what days and what time of day and they will be able to plan their visits.

If you are specifically inviting people to a viewing or an auction, you might want to send them a personal invitation with Invite²GO. This is very professional and will make sure people get to the right place at the right date and time. Minor details perhaps, but could make or break a sale.

Many people don’t know their way around

Don’t assume they know their way around. It will become obvious very soon that real estate businesses that make it easy for buyers, will sell more properties, more quickly.

The traditional table search and display format was great in its time, but the alternative of viewing properties (by search criteria) on a web map is far more powerful.

Real Roads

Up to 20% of the roads that were drafted for New Zealand were never constructed. We call them ‘Paper Roads’. Some web mapping solutions still include those roads. This can be very confusing, especially if you use directions, because the mapping software won’t know if they are there or not, so could direct you to drive through roads that don’t exist. If they don’t exist, the rest of the instructions won’t work and you could find yourself getting lost and frustrated. This means that your great idea to add maps on your website could backfire and become something people complain about instead of praise!

Directions

SmartFIND’s unique turn-restriction database covers pretty much all public roads in New Zealand and we can provide directions to or from any location in the country. We won’t send you the wrong way up a one way street and we know the no left turns and other intersection issues that can cause confusion. That’s because we drove all of them! 94,000 kilometres of road! If the road wasn’t there, you won’t find it on our maps.

Want to view more than one property? We can provide directions with via points, that means you can plan an itinerary with a number of stops on the way. You can print route maps and turn by turn written directions.

New Subdivisions

New subdivisions and roads are being approved by councils on a regular basis. Most of them tell us and send us the plans when they have been approved so that we can add them to our mapping data. We are updating our maps all the time so that the maps you use on your site are the latest available.

Be early and best

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Property Managers

Maps aren’t just for your customers. If you are managing rental properties, you need to be highly efficient whether it is building inspections, collections or maintenance, or viewing and assessing new properties.

SmartFIND will work just as well on your Intranet as it does on the Internet and you can view it anywhere you have secure browser access; from home, the office or your mobile notebook and in some cases Smartphones and PDA’s.

Planning suddenly becomes much easier. You can view properties, use the pop-up windows to view critical information from your database and of course carry maps and directions for your day’s visits. Of course you could go the whole hog and use Route²GO which will allow you to totally schedule your day for the most efficiency. That can mean better service for your clients and bottom line Return On Investment (ROI) for you as you can manage more properties without sacrificing quality of service.