The Bevis Group — Lyn Bevis and his team at RE/MAX Harbor Realty — needed a modernized website offering visitors the ability to Lyn’s own listings, to search the MLS, and to showcase recently listed properties throughout Charlotte County. They also had specific rquirements, needing the site to match their printed marketing materials.

The site uses custom programming to access the IDX datafeed from the Mid-Florida Regional MLS, updating listings twice daily. All property listings are accessible to search engine spiders for indexing, and are also easily accessible to human visitors. The Google Maps API is used to show property locations, and a mortgage calculator helps buyers determine how much house they can afford.

• The Bevis Group, Lyn Bevis, Realtor

We had already developed Chuck Eichner’s primary real estate site, but in addition he wanted a specialty niche real estate site that focused specifically on local homes with sailboat access to Charlotte Harbor. Punta Gorda Isles and other waterfront communities in the area have homes on canals that either don’t lead to the harbor, or fixed bridges are in the way between the home and the harbor. Many powerboats are able to pass underneath these fixed bridges, but sailboats with their tall masts typically can’t.

With the popularity of sailing in southwest florida, homes with sailboat access occupy a special niche. Chuck capitalizes on this niche with his Sailboat Home Listings website, which uses the same MLS IDX datafeed but pulls only homes with sailboat access for visitors to browse.

• Sailboat Home Listings