#property profiles

We hope everyone had a relaxing holiday.

We’ve been busy. We launched the first Dirt release right after Christmas and haven’t stopped since. We’re excited to see that quite a few of you have already claimed your Toronto properties. Thank you to all of you who took the time and to those who provided us with estimates of value for the properties that we sent your way. Our first few crowd valuations were a success and we’re excited to learn more.

Some of you were also kind enough to provide feedback on the features you’d like to see next on Dirt. We listened. We’ve already rolled up our sleeves and are hard at work on the next release of the world’s first social real estate community.

Here are some of the features you’ll soon see on Dirt:

Enhanced Property Profiles

After signing up for Dirt and claiming your property, you’ll soon have the ability to manage a profile of your property, similar to the way that you manage your professional profile on LinkedIn. You’ll be able to upload more photos, add or modify information about your property, and engage in conversation with the rest of the community. 

This will benefit you in two ways:

First, it’ll allow the crowd to more accurately value your property. We heard from our users that we weren’t allowing enough information to be entered and so we’re fixing that. You’ll soon be able to enter your lot size, number of units, heating type, maintenance fee, and more.

Second, it’ll allow you to easily and beautifully showcase your home or income property online. Each profile will have its own unique web address (URL) so that you can paste it into that Craigslist ad or send it to your friends and family.

Sharing on Social Networks

We’re also going to give you the option of sharing your property on various social networks. We know that your home is an immense source of pride and so, naturally, you may want to share it with your friends and family. Whether you just finished your basement or installed a new kitchen countertop, you’ll soon be able to share it all with your friends on Facebook or your followers on Twitter. 

Interactions

Enabling interactions between real estate consumers is a core value proposition of Dirt. You’ll soon be able to interact directly with property owners on Dirt by adding comments and engaging in discussion. We know that you love talking about real estate and so we’re going to make it easier for your voice to be heard. Instead of simply commenting on a blog post or a Globe & Mail article, you’ll soon be communicating directly with owners and your thoughts on real estate will be heard by everyone in the Dirt community.

Crowd Valuations 2.0

Since launching, we’ve already valued a few properties using our crowd valuation method and we were amazed to see how accurate the crowd could be at estimating property values. We knew you had it in you!

The new features we’re adding (property profiles, social sharing and interactions) will help members of the Dirt community to better understand your property and will only help to improve the accuracy of our crowd valuations. In the future, we want to be able to offer you a real time valuation for your property so that you can keep close tabs on your largest investment. 

If you haven’t already claimed your Toronto property on Dirt, now’s the time to do it!