• It’s free! There is no charge to list your real estate business.
• Google Places is arguably the world’s largest online business directory.
• Listings are ranked at the top of Google Search results.
• Listings also appear on Google Maps.
• All listings are validated by Google so they are trusted by customers.
• Every branch or office will have its own place.
• Consumers can rate your business and write reviews.
• You can add photos, videos, and offers to show customers why they’ll want to choose you. Highlight special promotions, post live updates, and respond to reviews.
• Discover insights about your business and learn more about your customers: What keywords they’re searching for and where they’re coming from. Armed with this knowledge, you can make better business decisions.

Get Started!

• Go to www.google.com/places and click on the “Get Started” button – which will direct you to a login page.
• Now you need to have an existing Google account to use this service, however if you are already using another Google service such as Gmail, YouTube, or Blogger you can login with the same login details. If not, then sign-up for your Google Account.
• Complete the basic information listing form, specify your hours of operation, add photos and videos, and any other information to help improve your listing. While not all information is required, generally the more information you add the better.
• Once you’re happy with your listing, click on the “Submit” at the bottom of the page.
• This will take you to the validation page. Simply select the method you’d like to use to validate your listing. You will either be contacted telephonically or via SMS to validate your listing. Once validated, you own the listing and only your Google account will be able to edit it in future.

So what are you waiting for? List your real estate business on Google Places today and put your business on the map!

Client:

Company Overview
Brettenwood Coastal Estate, situated in Sheffield Beach just 5 minutes north of burgeoning Ballito on the KwaZulu Natal North Coast, is a secure family estate. The Estate is ideally located away from the bustle, yet conveniently close to the King Shaka International Airport, several retail outlets, private hospitals and schools, and a wide variety of family oriented leisure and entertainment options.

The Estate’s investment offering includes beautiful freehold sites, some really fantastic freehold homes, Brettenwood Lakes, which consists of designer living three bedroom villas and two bedroom apartments with sea or dam views and Forest Village, the retirement village on the Estate.

Software Engineer Vacancy (Durban): Prop Data is on the hunt for an experienced software engineer to join our engineering team. This position offers a fantastic opportunity for a talented individual to work in an established company with high profile clients on exciting projects. The applicant will need a minimum of 3 years experience in a software engineering role to be considered. This is a permanent position and remuneration is based on the candidate’s skill and experience.

Note: The available position is for a Software Engineer in the Durban area, however Prop Data is willing to consider all talent located outside of Durban who are willing to work remotely.

Required education and personal attributes:
- A degree in computer science (or a similar field) / or equivalent training and professional experience
- Works well within a team environment
- Obsessively pays attention to detail
- Highly motivated, self starter who can work unsupervised
- Ability to work within deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Understands the concept of usability
- Fanatical about clean concise readable code

Required technical knowledge and skills:
- At least 3 years software engineering experience
- A minimum of 2 years experience using Python, Java, Ruby or C++
- Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational database systems
- Thorough grasp of version control systems
- Basic understanding of a Linux based environment
- Proficiency in HTML and JavaScript including common JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, Closure)
- Excellent understanding of software design principles, object orientated programming and cross browser compatibility
- Good understanding of web services

Beneficial / advantageous skills:
- Django web framework
- Distributed version control systems
- Linux / UNIX experience
- Non-relational (NoSQL) database systems (Cassandra, CouchDB, BigTable etc)
- Experience working in a test driven development environment along with an understanding of Agile methodologies
- Continuous integration and automated build environments
- Experience in application optimization (profiling, benchmarking), including but not limited to using technologies like memcached, Amazon AWS, database clustering / replication, load balancing and high availability

We’re offering an opportunity to…
- Work at one of South Africa’s leading / fastest growing real estate software and internet marketing firms
- Improve your knowledge / skill base and learn from some of the industry’s best

To apply, e-mail iwant2work@propdata.net with a subject like “Application for Software Engineer Vacancy” along with a CV and cover letter introducing yourself.

Client:

Company Overview
Comproperty.co.za is the first commercial property portal of its kind, offering a centralised one-stop browsing destination for all commercial and industrial properties in South Africa.

Comproperty.co.za is not an estate agency and does not get involved in the transactions between the parties. It acts solely as a central location for listing your commercial and industrial properties with all enquiries directed straight to the agent or individual listing the property.

Visitors to Comproperty.co.za will be able to comfortably browse through the easy to navigate site for commercial properties and acquire a good feel and understanding of the local market before making the all important decision to lease, purchase or invest in suitable premises. The Comproperty.co.za website will also offer area profiles of the different commercial hubs within our provinces outlining what they each have to offer.

• A good headline should not only create attention, but it should also include keywords and phrases relevant to property and the geographic area you operate in.

 
Content

• Event though it is tempting to copy and paste news articles published on other property websites and blogs, it is highly recommended that you post fresh, original content articles on your website as they are more likely to get a good search
  engine ranking.
• Keep the content relevant to property and your local geographic area of operation.
• Discuss relevant topics such as property pricing, local market conditions, new property laws, changes in the interest rate and community issues, to name but a few. Provide your visitors with your expert opinion and allow them to share theirs.
• If a person, website or blog is quoted in the article, ensure that you reference them by linking to the original source. This will help build credibility if the source is known as an authority.
• Also link relevant keywords and phrases to other sections of your website or to other relevant news articles. For example, linking the phrase “homes for sale in Durban” to actual property search results of homes for sale in Durban, will greatly improve your article’s weighting and ranking on the search engines. But be careful not to link to the same page more than once per article. Too many links to the same page will simply dilute the link’s strength.
• Any images posted alongside the article, should relate to the content and include an image caption. Images are fast becoming a good source of search engine traffic, so the more clearly your image is labeled the more likely it will be ranked for a related search in the search engine results.

 
Conclusion

• When closing, make sure you summarise the article and reaffirm the key points. It also helps to include a link to the Contact page on your site.

 
So go on! Start posting original news articles on your website today. Not only will it give your visitors a reason to return to your website on a regular basis, but you might just end up positioning yourself as an authority on property related issues in your local neighbourhood. The more articles you post, the more often Google and the other search engines will return to re-index your website, the more inbound links will be generated, the more traffic will be driven to your website and the more likely your article will be shared or published on other sites.

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Client:

Company Overview
National letting has grown from one local branch to having countywide branches in Western Cape, Gauteng and Kwa Zulu Natal positioning itself as one of the leading Rental companies nationally. National letting offer their Tenants, Landlords, Buyers and Sellers the ultimate range of property resources to chose from, all hosted on our website. National letting have an in house marketing team which produces all our marketing resources, and ensure that each property is presented in the best possible way.

		Secure Login Facilty
		Notice Board
		Branch Management System
		User Management System
		Document Management System
		Listing Management System
		Website management System
		System Statistics

WHY SUBSCRIBE?

	IT’S FREE
	No limit on the number of branches, users, properties and documents.
	Simple, user-friendly system – no training required!
	Web-based system that can be accessed anywhere at anytime.
	Ongoing system enhancements and new system development at no additional charges.
	Full data back-up solution included.
	Free technical support.

ADD-ONS

	User Permissions Module The Prop Data Management System comes standard with a universal access level for all users. This allows all users to have unlimited access to all data, across all branches, and have full access to every facility on every management system. The User Permissions Module enables you to define user groups with specific permissions and then assign users to user groups. Users within a defined user group will then have limited access to specific facilities on specific management systems and limited access to data from a specific branch. Basically, you have the ability to limit what a user can do and what data they have access to on the system. Setup: n/a Monthly: R230* per branch
	Property Brochure Template Design Prop Data will custom design a Showhouse Brochure, Window Display Card, or any other property brochure template as per your design requirements. The template design/s will then be fully integrated into the Listing Management System and enable users to select a template design and generate a professional property brochure, for one or several listings, at the click of a mouse. Setup: R2 300* per template Monthly: n/a
	Inbound Website Data Feed The Prop Data Management System is fully integrated with the Property 24, PropCtrl, RE/MAX Connect, Network Listings, Vesta and Gray Dot software systems. This means that if you chose to use one of the above software solutions, then there is no need for you or your staff to double data-capture. All branch, agent and listing data can be fed directly into the Prop Data Management System, via an XML data feed, to automatically update the system and website. Setup: R1 840* Monthly: R230*
	Database Import / Export Prop Data will import any database in CSV format into the Prop Data Management System. Conversely, you can also request a database export from the system. Setup: R460* per hour Monthly: n/a
	On-Site Training Even though all Prop Data products are backed up with free telephonic and electronic training and support, we also offer face-to-face, on-site training for individuals or groups. A Prop Data consultant will visit your office or training venue, at a date and time convenient for you and your staff, and provide a full demonstration on how to use the system and answer all your queries. Setup: R460* per hour Monthly: n/a Note: All prices exclude the hiring cost of the training venue and equipment. An additional travel and accommodation fee may also be charged if the training venue is situated outside of the Durban area. * All prices exclude VAT. Terms & Conditions Apply.

Client: 

Company Overview
SA National Realtors established operations in November 2011 by the following members: Frans Van Staden, Fred Iworth, James Conyers, James Gresty and Tracey Hicks-Burroughs. Collectively we have real estate and marking experience since 1990.

It is the energy, enthusiasm and professional of the individual founders that have brought them together. Despite, their individual success, they all value the culture of supporting and working together, assisiting each other to achieve their highest potential both for their agents and for their clients. Respect for the clients and respect for the property transaction process underlies all their success. They have a history with their clients for being supportive and creating memorable experiences.

It is this culture of collaboration that also resonates to their agents and they constantly strive to motive and encourage their agents to achieve their highest potential and to deliver consistent service excellence to clients.

SANRG is a brand dedicated to passion and belief in service and people. They encourage their agents to own their destiny and assist each other achieving growth.

At SANRG, they are not only passionate about property, but about people and their agents. They are believers in the value and security that property adds to clients lives.

SANRG agents and principles serve their clients with passion, professionalism and energy.

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Client: 

Company Overview
Warehouse Finder is a brokerage specialising in the industrial property sector. Specialising in sales, leasing and development in the industrial and logistics sector. Warehouse Finder also offer a first class range of industrial services tailored to your business needs.

They are trusted by major industrial corporates and investors to perform a wide range of services and their dedicated team have the contacts, experience and commercial expertise to support, develop and implement your industrial property strategy.

Warehouse Finder specialise in industrial property for:

• Logistics
• Engineering
• DC’s
• Pharmaceutical
• Manufacturing

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Client: 

Company Overview
Siljeur Properties are an independently owned Real Estate firm in Cape Town.

Siljeur Properties believes in helping and assisting their clients in every aspect of their property transaction. Acting for both sellers and buyers, Siljeur Properties agents offer excellent services designed to facilitate the transfer of property including valuation, marketing and assisting with registration. Siljeur Properties strive to provide SUPERIOR SERVICE all the time. Their interaction is based on the highest level of integrity and customer service.

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