Findspace launches new Data Quality Score

August 31, 2010 Leave a comment

A common complaint we hear from our clients (those people looking for Commercial Real Estate) is the insufficient information provided with listings.  Some Vendors seem to take great delight in providing the minimum amount of data and still expect potential customers to contact them.

Well to make it more obvious to Vendors where they are falling short in providing sufficient data we have introduced a new Data Quality Score.

Vendors can find the score under their Dashboard, just login to your account.

The criteria used to calculate the score is as follows:

As you can see Displaying Price is weighted heavier than other items.  This is to highlight how important our users value being able to see a price displayed.  The Area and Long Description points can only be obtained with Paid Listings.

The Data Quality Score will be used to rank listings at a later date on the basis that Paid Listings will always get ranked highest and then by Data Quality Score so the higher the score the higher up your listing will appear on our site.

Another option added around the Display of Price is on our SpaceFinder search tool.  Users can now elect to focus on only listings that display a price.

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Findspace adds new User Guides

August 20, 2010 Leave a comment

Following some feedback from users who told us they did not have the time to fully explore Findspace, we have now produced a number of User Guides and Factsheets.

These cover items such as:

  • Getting Started
  • Branch Administrator Functions
  • Search Tools
  • Tickle Me Factsheet

More will be added as time goes on so if you are unsure of anything then the best place to start might be here – http://blog.findspace.co.nz/user-guides/

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Findspace adds new Price options

August 19, 2010 Leave a comment

We have just added two new price options within Findspace.

  • Price Range
  • Display Price

The Price Range option lets you add a range to your pricing.  This means for both Sale and Lease listings you can enter a minimum and maximum price, subject to negotiation.

The second allows you to Hide the Price.  This has been requested by a number of users and against our better judgement we have added it.  However, we recommend to all user that those listings that Display a Price get a better response than those which don’t.

We will shortly be adding a Data Quality Score which will automatically promote those listings with a priced displayed in preference to those with no price displayed.

Even though the price is hidden it is still been captured so if you are searching by price the listings will be returned in the search results, which beggars the question, why hide the price if you can work out what it is when searching by price?

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Change to Terms and Conditions of Use

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

It has just been pointed out there is an error in our Terms & Conditions.

Section 4.4 reads:

If You are a real estate agent as defined by the Real Estate Agents Act 1976

It should read, and will be amended to read:

If You are a real estate agent as defined by the Real Estate Agents Act 2008

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Display all your Listings Dynamically in your E-Mails

May 31, 2010 Leave a comment

FindSpace has just expanded its ClientSpace option to now display your listings in your e-mails.

This is not attaching a document or a link but is embedded code that automatically displays ones listings directly from FindSpace.  The code can be easily customised so it only displays certain types of listings, in fact it can display data based on any searchable criteria used within the site.

If you would like to see what it looks like then send an e-mail to clientspace@findspace.co.nz and we will send you back an e-mail containing live data from FindSpace.

The best part of course is that the feature is totally FREE.

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Tickle Me is Now FREE

May 31, 2010 Leave a comment

We have amended our pricing to make the Tickle Me is now a FREE plan on FindSpace.

Tickle Me allows users to ‘test the market’ with their property to see if there is any interest in possibly selling it.  All details that could identify the vendor and the property are hidden but all other information is searchable.

So if you have a property and wondering should you sell it, why not get ‘Tickled‘ and see what happens.

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How to Use ClientSpace

February 26, 2010 Leave a comment

ClientSpace is another FREE feature available from FindSpace.

The feature allows us to push your listing back to your own website in real time.  This means that your listings appear on both the FindSpace website and your website all from the one source.

The benefit to users are:

  • No need to maintain the data on multiple website as all maintenance work is done on FindSpace and is immediately reflected on your site.
  • Your listings are displayed on FindSpace and any other site that you control.  There is no limit to the number of websites you can publish your listing to.
  • Saves you the expense of building a Listing capability on your own website.
  • Your listings get double the exposure on the Internet.
  • The service is totally FREE and very simple to setup.
  • No ongoing charges…..

The process to setup the feature could not be easier.

  1. Login to My Account on the FindSpace website
  2. On the Dashboard you will see a link for ClientSpace.
  3. Copy the code displayed into an e-mail and send it to your web developer asking him to add a new page to your site and insert the attached code.  That’s it.

Your web developer can vary the size of the frame to match your page size and it will automatically pick up your sites background colours.  Nothing more to it.

You can view a sample site HERE!

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How to Use GroupSpace

February 12, 2010 Leave a comment

GroupSpace is a very useful feature of the FindSpace site.

What it allows you to do is view multiple listings on one Google Map.  See the example HERE.

To generate a GroupSpace map is very simple.  All you have to do is carry out a search, any search.  You are initially presented with a List View but at the top of the listings you will see the option to View List on Map.  Just click this to generate the map.

If there are many listings in one spot you will see a number (showing how many listings there are).  Click once on the map to drill down to the next level and repeat if necessary.

Eventually you will see a small yellow icon signifying a listing.  If you hover over the icon you will see the address. Click once on the icon and it will give you Summary Information,  click on the address to get Detailed Information.

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