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We are pleased to announce the launch of the new MyProperty Namibia property portal  and new MyProperty Marketplace for estate agents. New MyProperty Namibia The new website comes with loads of new features for consumers and agents, including: A smarter way to search for property in any location or point of interest. New neighbourhood profiles  that not only showcase the beauty of Namibia but aim to give you insight into specific areas via neighbourhood expert profiles. Improved for sale and to rent pages with integrated maps. Larger listing photo galleries with live currency conversions. Integrated video and virtual tours on listings for agents supporting this. Agents can use Entegral Tours , Matterport, or alternatives. Video integration is supported via Youtube Various new property tools including property alerts, careers page, and property alerts Improved agent and agency profile pages showcasing the latest listings and a new estate agent search . A great Namibia real e...

As a real estate agent, having a trusted bond originator on your team is critical to making deals happen. Working with buyers you need to optimise your time and ensure you  pre-qualify them for finance  as a first step. With this in mind, we've developed a new MyProperty Home Loans platform that offers smarter bond origination services for buyers and estate agents as an integrated service. While the service is seamlessly integrated with your Flex real estate websites ( see example here  and this blog post on how we save you time ) we also had enquiries from non-Entegral clients on how they can utilise this service, so have put a solution in place.  Your own dedicated bond origination service platform As an individual estate agent or estate agency, you can now order your dedicated, branded home loan services page on MyProperty. Have a look at this example :  With a dedicated URL and branded page, you can offer your buyers: Online pre-qualifications done by our ...

We've updated systems including Base, OMS, Sync, Flex and Portals to reflect the 14 correct Namibia regions  as per the following region map. Towns were subsequently moved to reflect the correct areas. Flex websites are in the process of updating to reflect the correct region per listing.

We are proud to announce an improved MyProperty Home Loans rewards structure for South African estate agents . We now offer rewards commission starting at 0.5% , a discount on Flex real estate hosting, and further benefits including profit share. Review our home loans page for more details: Our goal is to provide estate agencies with a comprehensive all in one real estate solution that further extends the capabilities of our Base CRM and Flex responsive real estate platforms .  Estate agents can for instance accept online home loan pre-qualifications and applications right on their websites, as showcased on this sample website . Go like our Facebook page as we are launching some groundbreaking real estate automation tools next week. This will for instance provide you with automation integrations for your home loan applications too (e.g. when your agents load a new buyer in Base, automatically send an invitation to that buyer to do a pre-qualification). Our Flex responsi...

Following the launch of the virtual tour hotspot feature , we've made some further upgrades to the free MyProperty virtual tour system : Auto-rotate With this setting on, your virtual tour will auto rotate on load to create a more interactive feel, as can be seen in this sample below: Initial view Simply pan the photo and hit the ' capture initial view ' button to select the first view visitors will see when opening a scene. Especially useful for first impressions but also to create more realistic virtual walkthroughs. Get started with this guide and see how you can create unlimited virtual tours on all your listing mandates with any 360 camera.

Our recently launched MyProperty virtual tour solution , is an industry first free virtual tour solution for estate agents. It allows estate agents to create free and unlimited virtual tours on their property mandates. You can create a tour and upload the link to your mandate on your management system, including Base . Now with hotspot functionality We've just launched the next phase of our upgrades which includes the ability to create hotspots on scenes. Hotspots are clickable areas that link you to different scenes (rooms) for a virtual walk through experience. You can create unlimited scenes per tour but also any number of hotspots per scene, which will be summarised for you in your interface: When you open a scene, you can simply pan the photo and create a hotspot by clicking on an area in the photo and selecting where it should link to. It is as easy as that! Here is one embedded below we've done in a property with an entry level Ricoh Theta SC 360 camera . You can also  ...

With COVID-19, social distancing is the new norm. Subsequently, more and more  estate agents are using virtual tours to enable remote viewing of homes, which also have the added benefit of allowing buyers to narrow down their home selection better before conducting actual viewings. A win-win situation for agents, sellers, and buyers. We believe that virtual tours will soon become a standard feature on most property mandates. While there are many virtual tour systems and cameras available, we took a look at a highly cost-effective option for estate agents using a budget-friendly 360 camera and hosting option. 1. Camera: Ricoh Theta SC and V The Ricoh Theta SC and V 360 cameras have been around for a while and comes in at around R5,000  and R10,000 respectively . As far as we know the cheaper SC version has been discontinued but you may still get some on online shops. There are a lot of other 360 camera options you can review here . You will also need a tripod, s...

We are making a lot of ongoing improvements on the MyProperty South Africa portal. Last month (May 2020) the overall traffic on the website increased by 44% compared to January. We introduced an industry 1st free self service virtual tour solution for estate agents  and made advertising on the portal more cost effective for non-clients (R99/month per office for all your listings). New recommended transfer attorneys launched Today we are launching our new recommended property transfer attorneys section to consumers with several integration links activated throughout the portal. Featured attorneys are recommended on related property law news articles and other relevant pages: Each attorney gets an individual, customised about section with contact details: All attorneys can advertise, but we are limiting the number of featured attorneys to one per province. The featured attorneys provide increased exposure throughout the website and to Entegral's estate a...

Virtual tours for everyone There is no doubt now that virtual property tours are the perfect way to explore homes in a new world of social distancing. It also provides additional benefits to everyone, including saving on travelling time, having to clean up the home for every viewing, and giving buyers a better overview of the property 24/7. It is just the perfect way to compliment every listing. With many virtual tour systems available on the market, cost and functionality differ between all of them. Our team has scratched their heads, and since we are used to building highly optimized & efficient systems, we are able to offer a free virtual tour platform for estate agents  through our MyProperty platform. Get started right now If you have a 360-degree camera, you can get started right away or even transfer your existing tours  by creating an account:  https://www.myproperty.co.za/tools/virtual-tours No camera?  Check out this article for some suggesti...

The Entegral team is busy with a major revamp on Namibia's #1 property portal , MyProperty Namibia. We aim to improve all aspects of  the user experience on the new website and drive more quality leads to our clients. Here is a sneak peek of the property search. It uses Google's Place search (the same you will find in Google Maps) to search for property around any location including street, suburb or point of interest. We are also inviting clients and the public to suggest improvements. Click here to suggest ideas on where you'd like to see the portal improved, we welcome all feedback! Namibia estate agents can update their listings to MyProperty via Base .

We've introduced a great way for estate agents to promote themselves through the MyProperty channels via our neighbourhood expert profiles as can be seen below: Neighbourhood expert profiles on MyProperty South Africa You can now also showcase neighbourhood videos at no additional cost, which is a first for a South African property portal.  You simple need to create a great YouTube video where you give an overview of your neighbourhood and send the link to us for evaluation. This offer is only open to estate agents that already have neighbourhood expert profiles on MyProperty (We will open for new submissions again later). As can be seen in the example below, we will include it as part of your neighbourhood overview, which will give you some awesome exposure. Now that's not all, great area overviews will be promoted on our social channels, including the MyProperty Facebook and Twitter channels at no additional cost to you.  see how the Raptors View nei...

Attract fresh new real estate talent with our real estate job board You can now advertise your real estate vacancies on MyProperty's Job Board  from only R99 for 3 months of exposure. Our Real Estate Job Board is also integrated with Google's job search, which provides excellent exposure for your office. Your vacancy is highlighted with your logo which really stands out above the crowd as can be seen in this example below: To place your ad, simply visit the real estate job placement page here , fill in the details and pay via credit card. Our team will review and approve the ad. An added benefit is that it provides you with great brand exposure on the portal and a link to your website as shown below: MyProperty is owned and operated by Entegral as a 100% independent and self-funded property portal. Read more about our mission and DNA here.

We've received a lot of positive feedback on our newly launched  MyProperty Promoted Listing feature . It allows you to promote your listing and Facebook business page through the MyProperty South Africa social channels. We will tweak these packages over time to improve the offering. With the latest update, we will apply 100% of your paid amount to the Facebook ad spend, quite incredible! We've also modified the premium package with a R950 Google Adwords ad that will run over +-1 month and drive more leads to your profile: Once your ad has finished running you will receive an email with the statistics for your review, and have the option to extend your promotion.

We are proud to announce a fresh new approach to promote your property mandates on social media for Entegral clients. Estate agents now have the opportunity to promote individual property mandates through our very active MyProperty Facebook, Twitter and Instagram social media channels. Depending on the package, you can also promote your property mandate through the highly effective Google Adwords network. Our initial launch packages offer a hyper-local approach to target people around the area of the listing for maximum impact.  Simply log into your Base / OMS account and click on the 'promote' link on your mandate: For those agents supplying listings through our Sync interface , you can simply navigate to your property listing on MyProperty and click on the ' Promote this listing ' link: Choose your package and click the order button to pay via our credit card payment gateway. Once ordered you will receive a confirmation email, our ...

We are pleased to announce Entegral's brand new Bond Origination Service platform for the real estate industry. Our  new home loans service was introduced to consumers last week  on our MyProperty South Africa portal, and we are now excited to launch our exclusive estate agent offering. The service aims to offer a more integrated and value-added experience for estate agents and introduce some unique industry firsts: Cash back rewards and reward points you can spend on services & online marketing initiatives targeted to help your grow your business. Integrated home loan pre-approval and applications on your Flex website with tracking through your Base account. Passive income from referrals, including those generated on your website. MyProperty commission share : earn on applications submitted through our portal. With our free listing subscription, MyProperty is the 1st portal that actually pays you to belong. A 100% independent Home Loan Origination servi...

Hello MyProperty Home Loans We are proud to announce the official launch of our new Home Loans services under the MyProperty Home Loans name.  Head over to this MyProperty Home Loans press release for the details and visit the new  Home Loans application page here. This is our consumer offering. An exciting new unique agent service will be launched next week (2 September) so go like our Facebook page and stay tuned for this exciting announcement.

New MyProperty Namibia logo Our MyProperty Namibia home search portal has received a few updates including a fresh new logo, that reflects the recent MyProperty South Africa brand updates done. The new logo follows a more simplistic design: Header update Namibia is such a beautiful country so it was difficult to decide on a new header image. We've opted for the world famous  Spitzkoppe . Great choice isn't it? Ranking algorithm When someone searches for properties for sale or rent, we now rank the latest listings first. We will introduce other ranking algorithms to showcase the best listings 1st, including number and quality of photos, length of the property description and how complete the listing details are. Catch us at Namibia's first Property Expo! You can catch our team at Namibia's 1st Property Expo this weekend. We'd love to meet you so please come and say hi! You can catch MyProperty founder, Adriaan Grové in action this...

We are constantly refining the new MyProperty South Africa property portal and will introduce a range of new features throughout 2019. Here are some of the latest updates: New MyProperty Account Visitors can now create a free account on MyProperty which will allow them to manage their favourites, property email alerts and news alerts from any device. New account specific functionality that enhances the buying/selling experience will be introduced over time. It features a unique passwordless authentication feature . Users don't have to remember a password for MyProperty,the activation code to access their account is simply emailed to them. Quick access to history Visitors can now access their latest searches in a dropdown when they enter the search. We've also moved the 'my current location' feature here to simplify the user interface: Header and navigation improvements User interface tweaks to the header, search and action buttons at the bottom to fu...

Last year we introduced our new MyProperty South Africa property portal , that runs on our Flex Template Language real estate platform . FlexTL is a unique serverless real estate platform that allows for the rapid development of real estate websites of any size, and even allows you to use your own developers. Since the launch we've been hard at work with some fine tuning, brain storming new functionality and coding enhancements for incremental roll-outs this year. Today we've updated the home page which aims to highlight some key features: The integrated Google search is kept. It allows you to type in any location in South Africa, and the system will search for properties in a radius around that point, allowing buyers to find more listings in the same area.  A neighborhood feature highlights selected areas and gives insight into popular areas in South Africa including photos, map, latest listings and agents. This is already the largest selection of neighborhood info ...

Our team has managed to launch the  new MyProperty South Africa property portal  in July and have committed to making it the top property portal in South Africa. Not an easy task, as our CEO  explained in this blog post , as it requires a long-term vision, relentless tweaking and working through lots of user feedback and analytics to perfect it. You can  read more about our 'Why' here , to get insight on how we are aligning the portal to focus more on the role of professional agents. We got rid of subscription fees, and also ads that clutter the user experience, and provide the portal as a  free to list portals for Entegral  clients using the OMS or  Base . We furthermore provide a free feed for major service providers through our  standalone property listing syndication system called Sync . For a small fee, it provides you with the advantage to also feed to other free or paid portals to increase your online exposure. We will continuou...