Property Hive News

We’ve launched a new update to our Map View add on that allows you to display underground lines and transport links using data provided by Google on your WordPress powered estate agency website. Once you’ve updated your add on, you can navigate to a new setting under ‘Property Hive > Settings > Map Search > […]

You might’ve noticed that on sites such as Rightmove and Foxtons, when searching for properties, they display an advert or promotion amongst the property results: It’s a great way to cross-promote other services offered or to link users to other areas of interest on your estate agency website. With our brand new add on, Search Results Promos, […]

The broadband speeds available at a property is a key piece of information that people searching for property will likely want to know, especially now that more people are working from home following the Coronavirus pandemic. As such, we’re excited to announce that we’ve updated our existing free Locrating add on to have a new option so […]

Following on from the recent announcement of our property management module, we’re excited to announce a related feature which benefits users of our Maintenance Jobs add on. Add a ‘Report Maintenance Issue’ Feature To Your Website We’ve added a new shortcode [report_maintenance_issue_form] to show form allowing tenants to report issues via your website.   When a new maintenance […]

It’s Monday, which means release day here at Property Hive. Version 1.5.2 is now available and contains the following: Feedback Received Date Displayed On Viewings When feedback is added, either by a negotiator within WordPress or by the applicant using our Viewing Feedback Request add on, we’ll now record the date on which this feedback […]

TasteWP has emerged to join WordPress sandboxing solutions, allowing anyone to create a new WordPress instance almost instantly. Platforms such as these have been popular for some time and are convenient for testing out new plugins and themes, which can also be really helpful for people outside of the dev and tech world who want […]

Since the launch of Property Hive in 2006 we’ve had support for three departments allowing agents to categorise properties accordingly for displaying on their estate agency website, sending to property portals, and more. These departments were Residential Sales, Residential Lettings and Commercial: Although this has worked well, we’ve always had support requests that asked about how these can be […]

Over the past few weeks we’ve been trying to maintain a more regular release schedule whereby every Monday we do a new release. This is working quite well and means we can give users a definitive day on when their requested change or other roadmap items will be available. It’s likely some weeks there will […]

It’s here! We’ve been raving about the upcoming release of our new property management module for some time now and we finally released the BETA version of this back in late January to gain some valuable feedback from users who were testing this out. We’ve now officially launched this as part of version 1.5.0 of […]

The latest version of Property Hive, version 1.4.79, has just been released and is available to update to through WordPress now. Below you’ll find a list of what’s been included in this update: New Viewings Workflow When clicking into a viewing from a property or contact record we’ll now show a popup that shows the […]