Real Estate Directory Listing

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Dear All,

I have recently started a small project of creating a local Real Estate Director Listing website.

The website setup is done but my main issue is this:

How to get people to list their properties into my Directory instead of the 1-2 big ones(also FREE) or going with a real estate agency ?

Anyone has any ideas or methods i could use ?

Thanks a lot in advance.
 
SEO rank it and buy google reviews.

make facebook page and market to phillipines/india where engagement is cheap to get likes and then market to U.S. once you have enough social proof

Do social proof. pay influencers in real estate industry to s/o on instagram

have some sold homes and active homes on it to give it creditability.

market facebook ads

post on craigslist.

post on facebook groups
 
At First, hire a VA to get listings from other websites and post it on your website, once your website started showing up in serp, people tend to list on yours, you can also try local newspaper Ad and FB Ads.

Are you targeting the single city/state or Whole country?
 
Depends what your aim is here. If you are trying sell external home owner products like decking, pool accessories, or air conditioner installations (and you get a lead commission from companies), I would suggest that you might want to reach out to a middle of the road real estate agent and go into a venture with them. Depending where you are, there are some MLS real estate boards that allow their members to link to the internal database via an IDX (or similar word press plug in) and you can then list every listing you want from the MLS system in that area. If you are looking to gain advertising dollars via agents placing their listings with you for a fee and also having things like adsense, that's a bit of a different animal and an uphill battle because so many places already have nation wide contracts (eg point 2 point homes etc) to list all real estate listings on any/most MLS systems.

Also be aware that not all real estate overseeing boards allow this kind of joint venture of listing for sale homes if you're not a member of their association. They may view you as advertising or trading in real estate as a non licensed agent and wouldn't let you access to their listings once they found out what you are doing. Whereas:.... Others don't seem to worry so much about online ventures with non brokered advertisers (eg Kijiji). If you happen to find some semi retired agent who doesn't care too much about online website, other than getting the odd decent lead from it, you might find a good venture partner.

It's been ages since I played in the Real estate plug in/website area, so do some additional research. IDX is one of the data engines that allow you to hook up your website and active on call demand listings, I think there's DDX or something similar in some of the Canadian cities. It's a Hodge podge on how the boards allow the listings to be "fed" into a website. Good luck.
 
The Website is Location specific Cyprus a country in EU not US.
The VA thing would not work as the listing user has their info shown , so 1 users listing for others doesn't really work.
Also the influencer thing wont work here as there are not any :) It is a very small country with less than 1 mil population.

Any other ideas?
 
I have wondered how to do this too if starting up a classified ads site. What I did before when I had my own classified ads site was to just add listings myself. But SEO was way easier back then.
 
The Website is Location specific Cyprus a country in EU not US.
The VA thing would not work as the listing user has their info shown , so 1 users listing for others doesn't really work.
Also the influencer thing wont work here as there are not any :) It is a very small country with less than 1 mil population.

Any other ideas?
No one will list a property on empty website. Initially you need to make some listings yourself even with the posters name and add a option to claim the listings. You can list properties with phone contact options, so there is no need for the user access until they wish to close the listing, they will do contact you if needed.
 
I guess i will have to find a way to list as others.
 
You have to provide something that the others players doesnt provide
 
Depends what your aim is here. If you are trying sell external home owner products like decking, pool accessories, or air conditioner installations (and you get a lead commission from companies), I would suggest that you might want to reach out to a middle of the road real estate agent and go into a venture with them. Depending where you are, there are some MLS real estate boards that allow their members to link to the internal database via an IDX (or similar word press plug in) and you can then list every listing you want from the MLS system in that area. If you are looking to gain advertising dollars via agents placing their listings with you for a fee and also having things like adsense, that's a bit of a different animal and an uphill battle because so many places already have nation wide contracts (eg point 2 point homes etc) to list all real estate listings on any/most MLS systems.

Also be aware that not all real estate overseeing boards allow this kind of joint venture of listing for sale homes if you're not a member of their association. They may view you as advertising or trading in real estate as a non licensed agent and wouldn't let you access to their listings once they found out what you are doing. Whereas:.... Others don't seem to worry so much about online ventures with non brokered advertisers (eg Kijiji). If you happen to find some semi retired agent who doesn't care too much about online website, other than getting the odd decent lead from it, you might find a good venture partner.

It's been ages since I played in the Real estate plug in/website area, so do some additional research. IDX is one of the data engines that allow you to hook up your website and active on call demand listings, I think there's DDX or something similar in some of the Canadian cities. It's a Hodge podge on how the boards allow the listings to be "fed" into a website. Good luck.
Hi, thanks for sharing your insights! I am planning to develop a real estate listing site (non-English site that targets people about to move to Canada). I have some questions about retrieving data/API from MLS and other technicality aspects. It would be great if I can connect and consult with you. Thanks!
 
Hi, thanks for sharing your insights! I am planning to develop a real estate listing site (non-English site that targets people about to move to Canada). I have some questions about retrieving data/API from MLS and other technicality aspects. It would be great if I can connect and consult with you. Thanks!
Sorry, I haven't logged in in a bit, I don't play in the real estate website area anymore and haven't for a while, so any info I have is severely dated. You're going to have to do some research on what APIs people use, (and they vary depending on what r/e board you want to hook up into).

I know there's a central MLS.ca database, but that's not going to help you, because that's fed from the various real estate boards in cities and provinces within the country. I'd suggest you pick a city like Toronto, and research the particulars of their board, and see if it gives you any good leads to where you can hook into their feeds. Toronto being one of the biggest in the country, I figure would also give you the most avenues to potentially learn what you need to use/not use and do/not do in order to not get your activities with them banned etc. Good luck.
 
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