Re: Real Estate sites using Product and Offer?

With product you can use offer and some other items that are not available
to only residence. BTW, this page looks to be updated, although not
helpful... http://www.w3.org/wiki/RealEstate

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Kurt Maine <kurt@develohost.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, Adrian. I actually meant "Residence', not Real
> Estate. Can you tell me the advantages of using Product over just using
> Residence?
> Kurt Maine - Sent via BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Giurca <giurca@tu-cottbus.de>
> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:10:14
> To: Kurt Maine<kurt@develohost.com>
> Cc: <public-vocabs@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: Real Estate sites using Product and Offer?
>
> Dear Kurt,
> According with schema.org documentation a http://schema.org/Product is
> is "anything that is made available for sale".
> I am not sure what do you mean by using the schema.org RealEstate... Is
> such class available?
>
> Otherwise you may consider extending schema.as:
> http://schema.org/Product/RealEstate or use a specific vocabulary if you
> know one. However, as a fast implementation I would encourage to use
> Product. Later if you find not enough properties to enrich your markup
> you may consider the extension.
>
> -Adrian Giurca
>
> On 12/27/2011 6:25 PM, Kurt Maine wrote:
> > I've noticed several real estate listings sites, including one of the
> > largest (Trulia.com) are marking up their property pages (the page
> > dedicated to a single home for sale) as a Product, an Offer, or both.
> >
> > Can someone explain to me the advantage of marking up a real estate
> > listing as a Product or Offer, as opposed to using the Real Estate
> > schema.org markup?
> >
> > Does the use of Product/Offer allow you to use additional useful
> > properties that Real Estate doesn't?
> >
> > Any insight into why large, reputable companies may have come to that
> > decision is appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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