For years now, myRealPage has been offering a world-class Listings and IDX solution for real estate professionals. One of the very important features of our solution is that we pass on the entire wealth of listing information which we receive from your local Real Estate Board, to your website visitors. We don’t remove fields or change their names in order to make them “fit” into our systems.

Today, we are taking it a step further. We are taking this wealth of raw listing information from our data feeds and opening it up for a “Deep Search” which you can use to create your Predefined Searches. In some areas, this wealth of information is enormous. For example, in one locality, we have around 300 possible fields in one listing type. Now, you can create a Predefined Search that uses a combination of these fields to formulate a very custom and very targeted list of properties for your website visitors.

Why is this feature important? Well, have you ever wondered if you could filter out only Lofts for a Predefined Search, or only Co-ops, or only New Developments, or only listings in a particular high-rise complex? Are you creating a new niche market for your personal or company brand? Now you can put together Predefined Searches with advanced criteria of your choosing to meet these needs. Chances are, if you can think it, you can create it using the new advanced Deep Search. And best of all, you can do it and manage it yourself!

“Advanced Deep Search” form is now available in your Predefined Search wizard dialog along with the other simpler forms. We are launching “Deep Search” as a beta product to see and understand how our customers will put it to use and we will be improving it along the way.

Please note, that this feature is only available in regions where the local Real Estate Board allows public searches (via programs like Reciprocity) and/or Virtual Office Websites (VOW). If you are unsure whether your region qualifies, contact us and we’ll check for you.

This feature will be available free of charge while in beta for both our regular website and listings-only customers.

Do you have an idea for a product feature or a feedback? Drop us a line at support-at-myrealpage.com

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We all know that one size doesn’t fit all. As web trends, fashions, and best practices evolve, so does your website. Your page sizes change, sidebars are removed, listing areas become wider, you want more screen real estate (no pun intended) dedicated to showcasing your listing photos… Enter “elastic” listing templates from myRealPage. We have gone back to our template design and reshaped it so that it is able to accommodate a much larger number of width formats. So now, whether you are removing a sidebar from your listings and want them to display in a wider format with large, expansive photo features, or if you are embedding our listing IDX in a 3rd party website, such as WordPress, you can set the width to your liking and enjoy the much tighter, more integrated and seamless look.

The widths can be easily set through the Listing Options in the Private Office and can be set separately for your listings, office listings and your search pages:

And don’t forget that our listing pages can be further styled via CSS (cascading style sheets): just talk to your graphic designer or web developer. Don’t have one? Ask us and we’ll connect you!

Do you have ideas for new features or feedback? We would like to hear from you! Send us a line to support-at-myrealpage.com.

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A little while ago, myRealPage added an automatic “Retweet” button to its blogging support. Today, we are adding a new Facebook Share button. Very much like the “Retweet” button, Facebook Share button can be esily enabled by a simple checkbox in the Blog Weblet settings: no further configuration or copy-and-paste of any code necessary.

(To enable the Facebook Share button, simply select a checkbox in your Blog Weblet settings):

Thanks to Tiffany Cloud [@TiffanyCloud] of http://cloudhomes.com/ for asking for this feature.

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We have added another Listing Showcase, called “Multi-Listing Google Map”. The idea is to allow you to showcase a bunch of listings on Google map. This map can be placed anywhere on your website alongside any other web content (even if your website is on WordPress or with other providers) . As with other listing showcases, you can use:

• Your Listings
• Your Office Listings
• Your Predefined Searches, or
• a hand-picked selection of listings by MLS® numbers

What’s more is that if you build your Google Map showcase on a predefined search that has a drawn area on the map, that area will be shown on the map showcase as well:

If you missed it, we have launched myRealPage Listing Showcase feature a little while ago with such showcases as:

• Featured Listing
• Multi-Listing Slideshow, and
• Multi-Listing Band

Don’t forget that you can use Listing Showcases in both myRealPage websites and 3rd party websites. The showcases can be embedded in a variety of places, including sidebars and content areas of the pages. Here is an example of a “narrow” map:

This feature is available for free for both Website+Listing and Listings Only customers of myRealPage. We hope you enjoy this new addition to our array of listing tools.

Do you have an idea or suggestion? Drop us a line to support-<at>-myrealpage.com

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Everyone knows that real estate is all about “location, location, location”. myRealPage has just made your listings more about location by adding School and Neighborhood Place information to each and every listing that is shown on your website; either through your listings, office listings or in search results.

We are currently supporting the following categories:

• Schools (Elementary and Secondary)
• Daycares
• Medical (Doctors, Dentists, Hospitals, Clinics, Pharmacies)
• Recreational (Fitness, Recreation Centers, Tennis Courts, Ice Rinks)
• Entertainment (Restaurants, Movie Theaters, Attractions)
• Amenities (Banks, Liquor Stores, Car Washes, Dry Cleaners, Salons, Spas, Swimming Pools)
• Shopping (Shopping Centers and Grocery Stores)
• Places of Worship

This new feature is currently available to Canadian customers only, but we are working on bringing similar information to our US customers as well.

This feature is currently in beta and, while in beta, it is available at no additional charge to all our our Listings+Website and Listings-only subscribers.

We are always interested in your feedback and comments; and we hope that you and your web visitors will find this feature useful.

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