I’ve been running into problems with setting up links on real estate websites for certain neighborhoods for quite a while. I frequently get 0 (zero) results because the listings aren’t properly added into the mls. The answer to get around this is to add all the individual streets to the search criteria.
Luckily my idx provider, idxbroker was more then will to help. See below for the answer to create multiple street searches.
CHALLENGE:
Set up custom links for real estate websites for subdivisions if realtors are not adding their listings under the proper neighborhood/subdivision.
CURRENT WORKFLOW:
The only option is to select the subdivision as your search criteria and hope that realtors added the correct subdivision and especially not “n/a”. But more often incorrect.
For example:
Neighborhood: Princeton Tree Streets
Select Subdivision name in the advanced search: Tree Streets
Results=0
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So I asked IDXBroker for a solution since I didn’t see anything in the knowledgebase.
Found out their solution worked! Yay! Now I can get accurate subdivision listings by adding the streets to the formula.
Here is idxbroker’s solution:The address search won’t allow the input of multiple addresses, but if you are building custom links, there is a trick you can use to search for multiple street names, in combination with any other criteria you want. There’s an undocumented field called streetName, so you could use a formula like this:
https://www.princetonrealestate.idxco.com/idx/9743/results.php?stp=advanced&idxID=216&pt=sfr&sfrType[]=Detached&aw_streetName[]=streetname
To build out custom links that display condos on certain streets. And if you want to include multiple street names, just duplicate the &aw_streetName[] string:
https://www.princetonrealestate.idxco.com/idx/9743/results.php?stp=advanced&idxID=216&pt=sfr&sfrType[]=Detached&aw_streetName[]=streetname1&aw_streetName[]=streetname2
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My Example:
Here is how to add this custom link to your idxbroker list:
Go to the the Customize tab, then Custom Link.[Build (Copy & Paste) Link]