For nearly ten years Onboard has been producing data and performing complex analysis to determine the “Best Places to Live.” Over that time, we partnered with many of the nation’s most well-respected media companies to help them deliver widely-read and often cited feature articles. The best places to live, to retire, to raise a family and more. During this time, we’ve perfected the art and science of determining the “best places” based on demographics, points of interest, ratings and reviews and loads more data.
Today, Onboard offers this traditionally customized analysis in a very flexible and targeted package—the Lifestyle Search Engine.
The Onboard Lifestyle Search Engine is a web service application programming interface (API) designed to allow website developers to integrate lifestyle search (“best places”) into websites. It may be used on broker websites, MLS websites, real estate portals and any other site or application where lifestyle search is relevant.
Lifestyle Search, simply put, allows people to find the places that best meet their everyday needs and wants.
- Want to live in an area with highly rated schools?
- How about an area perfect for golf lovers?
- Maybe an area where home values are rising?
- Or how about an area abundant in pet-friendly amenities?
- Perhaps you want all of these things.
How It Works
The Onboard Lifestyle Search Engine combines loads of lifestyle data with battle-tested analytics to determine the places that best match the user’s input. Here’s how it works:
- The user selects a target search area such as a state, county or even major metro area.
- He or she selects the criteria that are most important (i.e., family friendly area, specific home values, culture, shopping and more).
- Finally the user ranks how important each criteria is in her decision.
- The system finds the best matches, ranks the results and returns a targeted list of places, scores and even the geographic boundaries required to determine which area is truly the best.
With the API, a developer may come up with countless ways to integrate lifestyle search into a website. The look and feel, flow, and even the criteria exposed to the user may all be defined by the developer. The search can be layered onto an existing listings search, added as a new search option or integrated in any number of ways to create a unique and compelling experience and differentiates you from your competition.
See it live on Coldwell Banker Real Estate, New York Daily News, EXIT Realty, and First Team Real Estate.
The Onboard Advantage
- Human-Centered Search: Allow consumers to search by the way they live, avoiding the limits of how databases can query data.
- Flexible Delivery and Design Control: Create engaging websites that highlight the unique aspects of your brand and give you complete control over design and user experience.
- Years of Experience: Onboard’s Lifestyle Search Engine was born from nearly 50 years of combined experience working with community, demographic and geographic content and analysis.
- Deeply Engaging: Consumers get fully engaged in the search and interactivity of the system “matching” them to their best places, spending more time on site and with your brand.
- Integrated Suite: The Lifestyle Search Engine quickly integrates to the Listings Search Engine and with all other Onboard content to create the richest user experience available on the market.