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Search by property characteristics live

Greetings Nestorlonians!

We’ve just launched a new property search functionality in test mode. Some Nestoria users will now begin seeing a slightly different layout that gives you access to a new feature: ability to search by property characteristics. For example you can now search for a flat in Putney with a garden - or Grade II property in North Shropshire. Ok, that’s cool. But that’s not all - you can also select characteristics of a property that you don’t want to have. For example maybe you want to rent a flat in Maida Vale that’s not ‘lower ground floor’ and not an ex-council flat. No problem, search away. We offer lots of other common features that you can either include or exclude from your search. Things like ‘parking’, ‘high ceilings’, ‘furnished or unfurnished’, ‘freehold or leasehold’, ‘basement’ and more.

One challenge we’ve grappled with in rolling out this new feature is how to present so many options while still maintaining the simplicity and cleanness that we know you love. We’re not sure we’ve found the optimal solution, but here’s what we’ve come up with:

By default most of the search options are hidden away:

screenshot of searching for property characteristics - open

By clicking on the ‘more search options’ link on the right above the map a menu opens giving you easy access to more complex filters:

screenshot of searching for property characteristics- closed

We’ve been testing various versions of this functionality for the past few weeks, and we’re excited to finally get it out. For those of you in the random test, please let us know what you think. For the others please have a bit of patience - we’ll gather feedback, make improvements, and then roll this feature out to everyone.

Big thanks to two groups of people: our diligent beta testers who provided great feedback, and the hard working code slingers behind the Yahoo! User Interface library and the ydn-javascript support list.

More beta tests coming soon! Enjoy the weekend.