Real Estate

Open Source Development design and develops a variety of solutions for the real estate industry. Our solutions provide our clients within the real estate industry with a mechanism to conduct online transactions. They can showcase information about available properties to a larger audience base. We provide our solutions with easy to user administrator interfaces that enable solution administrators to easily upload information about the properties on sale. Apart from a mechanism to upload property information, we also offer to develop and integrate a whole range of value added tools such as currency converters, EMI calculators, virtual tours of the property etc. Our solutions provide property seekers with user friendly interfaces to seek information and conduct extensive research on desired properties.

The solutions developed by Open Source Development provide clients with a cost effective marketing tool to promote their services to a larger customer base. Real estate companies can expand their area of operations by reaching out to a broader audience that includes property owners, buyers and agents spread across countries and regions.

Solution Areas
At Open Source Development, we develop custom solutions to meet the requirements of individual clients. Our solutions can include a combination of various features/functionalities. Some of these include the following:

Real Estate Classifieds
We help clients in building and deploying online real estate classifieds. Our solutions provide sellers and buyers with a platform to post and reply to classifieds. The postings and replies to the ads are stored in a database thereby making it easier to track and respond to replies.

Real Estate/Property Database
Through our solutions real estate agents can easily create and manage an extensive database of properties available on sale and rent. Content management systems integrated with the solutions enable users to easily upload, format and organize details of properties. Property seekers are provided with extensive querying options enabling them to search for property details stored in the database.

Interactive tools
In order to build interactivity into the solutions and to provide value added services to users various additional tools and components can be added to the solution. Some of the tools/components that can be integrated with the solution include the following:

• Virtual Tours: Real estate agents/sellers can create and upload virtual tours of the property that they wish to sell. This enables buyers to get an idea of the property.

• Currency Converters – Since the potential buyers may be spread across geographical boundaries, a currency converter tool integrated with the solution provides them with a means to calculate and view the rates in a currency of their choice.

• Calendar – A calendar tool integrated with solutions will enable property agents, brokers and buyers to set and view their daily/weekly and monthly schedule for property viewings and bookings.

• Interest Rate Calculator – Property buyers can calculate the installment amounts and the interest rates required to be paid on purchase of the property.

• Reports - Extensive reporting modules can be developed and integrated with the solutions enabling real estate companies to generate comprehensive reports for analytical purposes. Statistical and trend analysis reports such as demographics of property buyers, areas or regions preferred by buyers etc enable agents, brokers, buyers and real estate companies to study and analyze the customer behavior and trends thereby enabling them to target and offer better services to the customers.

• Discussion Forums - Discussion forums can be integrated with the solution enabling property seekers and buyers to interact with each other online.

• Maps – The functionality of Google Maps can be integrated with the solutions. This enables property agents/sellers to generate location and direction maps to their properties.

Our solutions provide clients with a mechanism to be available to their customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Solutions
Some of the real estate solutions developed by Open Source Development include the following:

Real Estate Portal
Our client, a UK based IT company, required a solution, for their customer, that would streamline the process of selling and leasing property in UK. The solution was required to store and manage all property related information in a centralized database. As per their requirements, Open Source Development developed the estate portal a- a one-stop-shop for all property related information in the UK. Property seekers could browse through the details of the various properties and book the same online. The solution administrators could manage the entire website through back-end interfaces developed.

Online Classifieds
Our client, a US based marketing company, wanted an online classifieds solution to target a local clientele. The solution was required to provide sellers with an opportunity to advertise online thereby enabling them to reach out to a larger customer base. Based on the requirements of the clients Open Source Development developed the solution with powerful search capabilities and various user friendly features. The solution allows contextual advertising, enabling buyers and sellers to highlight their offers.