Cookbook/Real estate

GoodRelations for Real Estate

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The GoodRelations Cookbook
Recipe	GoodRelations for Real Estate
Description	Instructions on how to model real estate offers with GoodRelations
Status	stub
Level	intermediate
Tags	real estate, search, rich signals

Overview

Real estate offers can benefit a great deal from publishing offer information in a structured form using GoodRelations, because

• offers have many relevant characteristics (number of rooms, location, flooring,...),
• the geo-position of offer and demand is relevant, and
• current search consumes a lot of time and money.

Think of a mobile application that, while you commute to work, makes your smartphone vibrate each time you are passing by a rental opportunity that meets your search profile!

The first company to start publishing real estate data based on GoodRelations is Yahoo Real Estate, e.g.

• Example in Minnesota City may be be unavailable at the time you visit this page

Pattern

<div typeof="gr:Offering" about="#offer">
 <div property="gr:name">Apartment for Rent in Soho</div>
 <div property="gr:description">This is the coolest spot to live.</div>
<!-- Business Function -->
 <div rel="gr:hasBusinessFunction" 
    resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#LeaseOut"></div>
<!-- Contract duration -->
    Contract duration: <div rel="gr:hasEligibleQuantity"> 
      <div typeof="gr:QuantitativeValue">
        <div property="gr:hasMinValue" datatype="xsd:int">6</div> to
        <div property="gr:hasMaxValue" datatype="xsd:int">18</div> 
        <div property="gr:hasUnitOfMeasurement" 
	          datatype="xsd:string" content="MON">months</div> 
      </div>
 </div>
<!-- price per month -->
 <div rel="gr:hasPriceSpecification">
   <div typeof="gr:UnitPriceSpecification">Price: 
    <span property="gr:hasCurrency" content="USD">$</span>
    <span property="gr:hasCurrencyValue" datatype="xsd:float">800</span> per
        <div property="gr:hasUnitOfMeasurement" 
	          datatype="xsd:string" content="MON">month</div> 
      </div>
   </div>
 </div>
 Condition: <div property="gr:condition">remodeled in 2011</div>
 </div>
</div>