Carlisle and surrounding regions have some fantastic properties and so we (Rowan Properties) decided to have a go at running an estate agency. We're located on Lowther street which is five minutes walk from Carlisle city centre.
One of our priorities was to have a modern and sophisticated website built. After searching we discovered www.onlinewebsitedesign.net and decided to have them build our site. Strangely enough we discovered that they had recently built a system specifically for estate agents using Drupal. Our site www.rowanproperties.co.uk is now up and running and although there are still some minor revisions to make, we are very pleased with the end result. The site also has a complete backend where we manage all our properties, contacts and everything that goes with those such as letters, events, viewings, sales, comments and more that I cannot think of right now. What's really great about the system is that a property page also creates our brochures and window displays though we must firefox to get the correct print preview.
I wish you were able to view the backend system, it's truly brilliant. OnlineWD have said they will soon be putting a demo on their website of the system for people to try. What I really like about the system is that firstly we don't have to pay an annual fee, we simply paid a one off fee for the whole system and secondly, the system uses the same theme as the website so it's really nice to look at and work with; have worked with other estate agency software in the past and it was really quite dated and dull in comparison.
Regards, Cathy Hunter.
