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Simple Realty page add-on (with pics)

I find it very hard to navigate the Realty page sometimes, due to the sheer number of properties that appear for each region (well, for some regions, anyway). This is especially true for the mobile version. My idea is simple: Add an extra page, so that when you click on a region on the Realty page, it first takes you to a list of the Housing Blocks in that region. Clicking on a housing block will then take you to the listings for that block.

Here's the kind of page I'm talking about: Realty Mockup #1

The first thing you notice is that you can immediately see the types of houses that are in each street (this can help a lot). Another thing is that two of the streets are "greyed out"; this is because at the time of writing, neither of those streets have properties available for sale at the moment. Obviously in the "sold" section these would not be greyed out.

Clicking on, for example, "Hanmo Hiss Quarter" will bring you to this page: Realty Mockup #2

This is no different than thing are now except for two things: A new set of navigation at the top to quickly choose quarters, and the fact that it only lists houses from that quarter, giving a much smaller list to scroll through.

I haven't made up mockups for the mobile version of the website, but it would theoretically work the same, and allow me to quickly look for property where I want to look, and not get mixed up in the muddle of every available house in a region.

Questions? Comments? Opinions? I'm all ears*.

P.S. This does not even exclude other possible improvements like the filtering and sorting that has already been implemented in a greasemonkey script I currently use.

*Well, I'm not all ears, obviously. I have two ears on the sides of my head, and I'll most likely use my eyes to read any opinions, but you get the idea.

Posted 13 months ago by Xain Subscriber! | Permalink