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Our Facebook Marketplace Export add on has been incredibly popular since it’s launch and offered estate agents a new channel in which to market their property stock, sending it automatically from their WordPress website. It’s therefore sad to hear that Facebook, from September 2021, will no longer be supporting automated real estate feeds. Below you can […]

Following the recent launch of new property portal Boomin last month we’re pleased to announce that you can use Property Hive to send your properties to Boomin from your WordPress site. Even better is that it uses the same real-time format supported by other portals, such as Rightmove and OnTheMarket, and therefore uses existing functionality already available with our Real-Time Feed […]

It’s that time of the week again where we release what we’ve been working on. Below you can find what’s been included in this latest release. Updated Viewing Grids On Properties and Contacts We’ve wanted to update the look and feel of the grids shown on property and contact records for a while. This first pass includes […]

Our new add on, Viewing Request, is the first step in allowing users searching for properties to book viewings through your estate agency website, as opposed to making a general enquiry. We’re essentially breaking the development of this add on down into three phases as follows: Phase One – Available Now This first phase, which is part of the newly […]

The weekly release of our core Property Hive plugin, version 1.5.7, is available for update now and contains a number of improvements around handling property enquiries made through your website, Rightmove, Zoopla, and more. Let’s take a closer look at the changes included in this latest release: Enquiries Listed On Contact Record On a contact record we’ve added a new ‘Enquiries’ tab […]

You might be familiar with other estate agency websites, such as Foxtons, displaying their property results in such a way that they appear in a list and on a map side by side. With our latest Map Search add on update, version 1.1.29, you too can now have this layout achieving something like so: The markers shown on the […]

We already supported the SME Professional XML feed but have added support now for their newer JSON feed to our Property Import add on. It’s easy to setup, simply follow the step-by-step wizard to add a new import and you’ll be able to select the new SME Professional JSON option. Using our Property Import add on […]

Version 1.5.5 of Property Hive has been released and contains the following: Paginate Through Previous Viewings We’ve added previous and next links to the top of viewing records when there are multiple viewings for same applicant/property allowing you to quickly jump between them: Filter Offers and Sales By Date When viewing offers and sales in […]

New Property Hive users, this one’s for you.  One of our current aims, amongst many, is to make getting started with Property Hive quicker and easier for new users. Regardless of whether you’re a WordPress developer or an estate agent, we want our plugin to be accessible and usable by everyone. As a new Property Hive user […]

This weeks release of our core Property Hive plugin, version 1.5.4, is now available and contains the following: New ‘Per Day’ Rent Frequency For Lettings Properties When selecting the rent frequency for a residential lettings property we’ve added a new option of ‘Per Day’: We’ve also updated our Property Import and Real-Time Portal Feed add ons to […]