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If you were designing your dream IDX service, what would you really, really like to see?
I'm sort of a minimalist. Not artsy-minimalist as much as simple bare-bones minimalist, uncluttered-without a lot of sloppy eye-candy minimalist.
Straightforward and intuitive.
No Flash.
Quick Search
Advanced Search with opportunity to have all available fields.
Active, Contingent, Pending, Closed listings.
Ability to turn on or off Lead Capture.
Large photo gallery
Responsive and mobile-friendly
Good mapping with Birds-Eye View or Street View.
Always able to Contact Me from any screen.
Ouch. Is that a local rule or Paragon?
We don't have a public-facing side to the MLS here.
I can get near real time MLS updates when I set a search up for a neighborhood. I wish IDXBroker sampled more often than daily.
One of the issues with the IDX vendors, is they are trying to work too many MLSs in too many states, and are spreading their resources thin trying to comply with local laws and MLS rules.
It seems to me that to offer the most detail, the fastest, it will take a custom IDX solution, and that is beyond the affordability for the small firm.
If you were designing your dream IDX service, what would you really, really like to see?
I'm sort of a minimalist. Not artsy-minimalist as much as simple bare-bones minimalist, uncluttered-without a lot of sloppy eye-candy minimalist.
Straightforward and intuitive.
No Flash.
Quick Search
Advanced Search with opportunity to have all available fields.
Active, Contingent, Pending, Closed listings.
Ability to turn on or off Lead Capture.
Large photo gallery
Responsive and mobile-friendly
Good mapping with Birds-Eye View or Street View.
Always able to Contact Me from any screen.
Fast. Fast. Fast.
Link to tax data.
Love your ideas. The most intuitive and cleanest MLS I've seen so far is Rappattoni, but unfortunately my association is using Paragon currently which is a somewhat clunky.
Love your ideas. The most intuitive and cleanest MLS I've seen so far is Rappattoni, but unfortunately my association is using Paragon currently which is a somewhat clunky.
I would like an IDX that would take the data fed from the MLS and deliver to me all possible functions allowed by that data.
That would take the MLS solution out of the equation a little bit, unless the data was corrupted or messy.
Ouch. Is that a local rule or Paragon?
We don't have a public-facing side to the MLS here.
I can get near real time MLS updates when I set a search up for a neighborhood. I wish IDXBroker sampled more often than daily.
One of the issues with the IDX vendors, is they are trying to work too many MLSs in too many states, and are spreading their resources thin trying to comply with local laws and MLS rules.
It seems to me that to offer the most detail, the fastest, it will take a custom IDX solution, and that is beyond the affordability for the small firm.
Not sure if that is a Paragon thing or not. That is how they update the site.
I get notices within 15 minutes on Paragon sent directly to me, but I can't do that through my website since I have IDXBroker which only updates daily.
The both are. Locals would want to search by neighborhood, but relocaters would likely find the map search more useful at first.
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