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Pakistan’s largest real estate portal
Zameen.com on Friday debuted its
brand new tool Plot Finder at a launch event held at a popular local
hotel, with media representatives and the company’s senior management in
attendance.
Plot Finder allows Zameen.com’s users to access highly detailed maps of
38 Pakistani cities and over 2,500 housing schemes within. Its
plot-marking facility – which accurately depicts the land demarcations
segmented and finalized by society developers – was unveiled as its most
innovative feature. The product also enables users to swipe through the
precise, on-ground locations of over 1.2 million houses and plots across
the country.
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Zameen.com Corporate Communications Director Ibrahim Suheyl told the
audience that the main objective of all the services provided by the
portal (including this newly launched provision), was to make the
process of property searching and the subsequent transactions easier for
all stakeholders.
“Plot Finder is all about giving our users precise virtual access to
every property in Pakistan – and saving all involved from the
complicated and time-consuming process of using traditional paper maps,”
said Suheyl.
Zameen.com Central Region Senior Director Sheikh Shuja Ullah Khan told
the audience that the new feature would be a welcome relief for real
estate agencies, seeing as it would considerably speed up their
interactions with clients and make them more fruitful.
“Agents can now make map-based plot collections of their own to share
with their clients. This product will not only save them time but will
also be a tremendous help to their businesses in terms of closing
deals,” Khan added.
Zameen.com Geomatics Associate Director Ali Haroon said, “The biggest
problem in Pakistan’s real estate market is the scarcity of data,
especially geo-location data. Zameen took on the challenge of mapping
out all of Pakistan and our data scientists, engineers and programmers
are working round-the-clock to make that a reality.
“At the moment, we have 88% data penetration in Lahore alone, and some
1.2 million properties mapped in 38 major cities. This is a massive
success, but we are not stopping here: our of measure of success is when
we have successfully mapped all of Pakistan,” Haroon added.
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Zameen’s Senior Product Manager Muhammad Waqas gave a practical
demonstration of the new tool to the audience, and explained its many
features and benefits.
Plot Finder offers the following unique features:
• Search and view thousands of housing societies across 38 cities of
Pakistan
• Search and view millions of houses and plots, accurately marked on
digital maps
• View plot details such as:
Plot numbers
Plot addresses and map locations
Sizes (5 Marla, 10 Marla, 1 Kanal, etc)
Plot types (Residential, Commercial, Industrial)
• Share plots with clients/friends Create and save personalized plot
collections
• Shortlist plots for potential buyers or make collections for your own
inventory
• Share your collections with clients, family and friends.
“All the service or platforms that Zameen introduces have one ingredient
in common: understanding what our users want and need. We are
simplifying the experience of buying and selling plots for everyone
involved,” said Waqas.
“It took over 50,000 man-hours to create Plot Finder,with a team of more
than 300 people in our Operations Department working round-the-clock.It
isone of many intelligent products set to be launched by Zameen to grow
the real estate business further. We are geared towards disruptive
innovation and developing products that make stakeholders’ lives
easier,” he added.
Plot Finder can be accessed by logging on to Zameen.com and clicking on
the “Plot Finder (New)” link. |