Broker feed (import)

The import is aimed at commercial providers with an ongoing portfolio — brokerages, property managers, developers. It requires a verified business account and approval by Fundort; access cannot be set up on your own. That is deliberate: a feed publishes listings in someone else's name, in any quantity and unattended. We check beforehand who may do that.

Fundort reads the Swiss industry standard SwissRETS — the same format the common broker programs already produce for other portals. As a rule it is therefore enough to enter the address of your existing export; a separate export for Fundort is not needed. If the export is password-protected, the credentials are stored encrypted. Both the newer JSON and the older XML version of the standard are read.

The feed is retrieved regularly. New objects are taken over, changed ones updated, unchanged ones skipped. Before publication every object goes through the same review as a manually created listing — so it can equally be rejected or held for review. Details that cannot be mapped unambiguously are left empty rather than guessed: an object filed under the wrong heading would be worse for searchers than an incomplete one. Title, summary and description are taken over in every language the export supplies.

For as long as the export lists it as available. The listing has no fixed term that runs out — the feed states at every retrieval what is still on the market. If an object is sold, let or withdrawn, it disappears from the export or is marked as reserved or taken; the listing then ends as well. So that a single incomplete export does not take half the portfolio offline, a missing object is only deactivated after several runs. If the feed falls silent for good — switched off, moved, broken — the listings expire after a grace period.

Billing is based on the time an object was actually published, and happens only afterwards. The same tiers apply as for a manually created real-estate listing: one month CHF 40, three months CHF 99, six months CHF 168, twelve months CHF 264. Part months count as full months, and the applicable tier is the smallest one that covers the period: an object sold after three months costs CHF 99. The price therefore always matches what paying in advance for the same period would have cost. If an object stays online for more than twelve months, an interim invoice is issued and the tiers start again. You control the cost through the export: what is no longer in it no longer costs anything.

A feed does not rule out ordinary entry. Objects that are not in the export — a single mandate, something outside your usual marketing — can be posted by hand at any time. The ordinary route applies to such listings: you choose the term and pay for it in advance. Just take care not to carry an object twice — posted by hand and additionally in the export results in two listings.

Anyone who contacts you about one of your feed listings reaches you on Fundort like any other prospect. If your office collects enquiries in a CRM, enter the address it uses under “Forward enquiries to” in the feed form — with Mandatfeed, for example, [email protected], the same one as on the other portals. Every enquiry about a listing of this feed is then also e-mailed there — the first chat message, a viewing request, a tenant application: property, reference, name, message and a link to the conversation. The prospect’s e-mail address and phone number are only included if they allowed it when sending — they see the checkbox for that in the chat and in the appointment dialog, ticked by default. With a tenant application the e-mail address is included because the application gives it to you anyway; dossier and files stay in your account and in the e-mail to your account address. Follow-up messages stay in the chat; the forwarding is the entry point, not the conversation.

What your feed delivers alongside the images comes with it: floor plans (as image or PDF), 360° tours, YouTube videos and websites – in the order you set in your broker software. Fundort copies none of it: a floor plan image is passed through from your address when the page is opened, a tour opens as a button in a new tab, a YouTube video only after a visitor clicks. Remove a link in the feed and it is gone on Fundort after the next run. You see the links in the listing form, but you can only change them in your broker software – otherwise the next run would overwrite what you entered by hand. For property listings you create without a feed, you enter the same links directly in the form, in the section next to the images.

Mandatfeed is the broker software from the same house as Fundort: mandates, contacts, search profiles, enquiries and viewings in one place, in the browser, with data in Switzerland. There, the feed to Fundort is one tick per property – nothing goes out on its own – and every enquiry from Fundort appears in Mandatfeed as an enquiry on the property, with the prospect attached. What else Mandatfeed does and what it costs is on the Mandatfeed page.