Sonnenalp Real Estate Does Drupal

Sonnenalp Real Estate is a sleek, successful boutique real estate firm located in Vail, Colorado. Their team of brokers brings over one hundred years of real estate experience–making them well versed in the nuances of luxury home transactions in the Vail Valley.

Having worked with owner/broker Josh Lautenberg on his email marketing program over the past couple of years, we were excited to hear the news that he had acquired the company with fellow owner/broker Tyra Rudrud, and that they would need our assistance in migrating the website over to a new platform–Drupal.

We redeveloped the Sonnenalp Real Estate website using their existing site design with the aim of improving functionality, user experience and content management efficiency. We incorporated our new MLS module for Drupal 6. This new property module allows us to customize a 3rd party MLS data feed to enhance the user experience and create faster page and property loading, faster searches with more expanded features and flexibility in search criteria–including quick, advanced and property map search capability.

The advanced search feature allows the user to filter by property type, features, virtual tours, etc., and the map search that allows users to peruse a visual representation of Sonnenalp’s listings from Vail to Edwards.  The real-time MLS integration enables each search function to perform lighting fast, and it ensures that every search produces the most up-to-date information.

After doing a property search, users are able to take advantage of a property comparison feature.  Users can select a few properties of interest and a lightbox module pops up with a picture of the properties selected and their vital information such as asking price and MLS number.

The Sonnenalp site is another example of how we’re constantly striving for improvement.  We've created a professional, scalable website for the Sonnenalp Real Estate team that will serve them well for years to come. Kudos to Sammy on the sales side, Rowan for doing a great job managing the project, Paul for development, and Moira and Trey for deployment.