First and foremost CommonFloor team would like to thank all our users for bestowing on us their support and for being such great mentors. It was all because of your contribution and appreciation; we are what we are today. With all the encouragement and feedback from our valuable users, we could add on to our success and sail smooth till now.
CommonFloor, India’s largest real estate online portal wishes you a Happy New Year and brings to you another set of new features for easy handling and better experience. What better way to start 2012 than with user friendly and technologically advanced features on CommonFloor!
We have so many things in pipeline for 2012 for better real estate services and apartment management. The features just get better and better each day of the year keeping in mind the need of home seekers and apartment owners.
Some of the features like enhanced accounting for the community moderators, new User Interface for better usability & navigational flow and unrestricted SMS sending to the previously unavailable DND mobile numbers are just the start. There are lots more which will get added to the list and will equal all the features you love and so much more.
Let’s have a look at the year 2011, how it was and what has improved since your last visit:
Starting with January, as a New Year gift for 2011, the team worked hard to bring you a new face of CommonFloor.com. It posed a fresh, smooth and younger look as never before. We had already empowered 22,000 Apartment communities in 100 cities in India with an aim of providing value to Apartment Seekers, Apartment Owners & Residents and Apartment Association Members.
We also had launched “universal search” for your private portal for searching Notices, Discussions, Polls, Events, Articles, Stories, Classifieds, Property, and Handbook – Quick contacts, Residents Directory and many more.
In February 2011, CommonFloor was the center stage sponsor of “Blogomania”, an attractive event at Cognizance, IIT Rookie Tech Fest. This annual fest brought many accolades and fame to our organization. The same month also added another feather to our hat. CommonFloor was shortlisted among 25 organizations for “Young Entrepreneur Award 2011 by Business World”. Our company was nominated under Category A which included companies that are at least 2 years old and less than 5 years old. It was all our users and communities support which made the same possible.
In March 2011, a very unique “Maintenance Dues module” was developed for an improved maintenance collection process. The module is highly appreciated by the community members as they could see the status of the maintenance and other dues, apartment-wise. This was also highly beneficial in managing the affairs of the society. Yet again a new look in March with a motto “Key to your Dream Home” & a punch line “Buy/Sell/Rent Property at Your CommonFloor”. A newer, sleeker and faster look of CommonFloor was developed for easy search and access purpose. The motive was to provide the owners the fastest and secure way for Renting or selling their property in simple easy steps.
In April 2011, we saw a rise of over 94% Property Rental/Sale Owners recommending Commonfloor. The survey was done for owners who used CF in eight major cities of the country. Also, 20% of the owners had been recommended by their friends to post their listing at CF.
In May 2011, prioritizing our users’ privacy, we came up with a “Proxy email” service which would temporarily generate email id for the purpose of contacting you by the agents for your listing. We also termed as India’s Most Privacy Friendly Real Estate Destination where the vast database is not to anybody and proper care is taken to not show Email id and mobile number directly on website. On June 25th, CF participated in Property Buying in Internet Era at Property Buyer’s Summit- Bangalore
In August 2011, CommonFloor came up with a ‘Spirit Of Freedom’ Photography Contest. It was an opportunity for people to show their love for lens and the nation. We got many entries from our users based on Independence Day celebrations in their apartment communities. Photos with maximum votes won many CF goodies and appreciation.
In September 2011, we presented our users with an “Admin Inbox” for easy handling of emails by the moderator of each community listed on CF.
In October 2011, still more new features were added to the website for better usage. You now get an improved and smoother photo gallery. Email reply of a complaint will be automatically added as a comment to the Complaint in the Issue Tracker. Ability to create Folder and Sub-Folders to better manage the documents of your Community. Post your Property Requirement and List Your Property for Sale/Rent in CF got better with added features.
In November 2011, we saw many achievements as a team. CommonFloor was Web 2.0 panelist at FICCI-India R&D 2011, New Delhi. We represented the consumer web application in India and presented forward the various challenges we face and how academia can help us with research and help advance the use of Web 2.0 applications.
The best of the best, CommonFloor bagged the Best website of the year 2011 award in the housing and interior category with highest score on content, design, navigation and recommendation likelihood. The award was an initiative by online research agency MetrixLab. We left behind many our competitors and this was possible only because of all the love, support and encouragement from our users. We also made it possible to resume our Full SMS Services to our CF users against all odds and previous impact of TRAI SMS guidelines which could affect the smooth functioning of messaging services.
A new and unique Accounting Features was presented to our users with Income & Expenses Tracker in Apartment Management Software. This feature helps you in keeping a track of income and expenses along with your community’s bank accounts. Major National Daily, The Hindu covered CommonFloor as: “a tool to empower the committee and the owners for better and transparent management.”. It spoke about the four solutions that CF provides: Communication, information, management and accounting. The story also spoke about the splendid journey and expansion of Commonfloor from 2007 to 2011.
As bidding goodbye to wonderful 2011, CommonFloor experimented yet another look, this time with various features and values for better usage in Dec 2011.
On a happy note, along with brand new accounting features CommonFloor will make your Home management a lot easier in 2012. Less worries with money management, improved communications and better collaboration with fellow neighbors. We are even working on getting online payments so you can pay all your maintenance dues for your apartment in just one click. CommonFloor now serves more than 45,000 gated communities across 100 plus cities in India (and is establishing its presence internationally too). CF is the first consumer-centric real estate portal and also has active communities from smaller cities like Vishakapatnam, Coimbatore, Kochi and many more.
