Webzenz Switzerland developed iHouse: the platform checks Swiss property portals every hour, sends email alerts for new listings and offers mortgage and tax calculators.
Overview
Anyone looking for a flat or house in Switzerland has to watch several property portals at once. iHouse brings this search together: the platform checks Swiss portals such as comparis.ch and homegate.ch every hour and emails users as soon as a matching offer appears.
The search is complemented by decision tools: a mortgage calculator based on UBS criteria, a tax calculator and a curated list of around 278 Swiss real estate companies.
Starting point
New offers on the Swiss property market are often taken quickly. Users therefore needed to be informed promptly without searching themselves, filtered by their criteria and without duplicate alerts.
Features and delivery
Hourly market monitoring
Cron jobs check Swiss property portals every hour and detect new offers.
Email alerts
Users receive new offers matching their saved criteria directly by email.
Filters and search profiles
A clear interface for setting region, price, size and other criteria.
Mortgage calculator
Affordability calculation based on UBS criteria.
Tax calculator
Estimate of the tax impact of a property purchase.
Directory of real estate companies
Curated list of around 278 real estate companies in Switzerland.
Scope of work
- Concept and development of the platform with Symfony
- Data collection and processing from property portals
- Email alerts and cron jobs
- Mortgage and tax calculators
- Database design and hosting
Technologies used
- Frontend
- Backend and API
- Database and data layer
- Servers, cloud and hosting
Result
iHouse saves property seekers from checking several portals every day and delivers new offers promptly by email. The calculators help to assess an offer financially.
The project shows the experience of Webzenz Switzerland with data processing, automated workflows and web applications built on Symfony.
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