ABSTRACT
This research project is aimed at the development of an Estate Agent and
Property Management System for real estate professionals. It will save
time and enable estate managers sell more by empowering them to easily keep
track of leads, manage listings, and market to new prospects. The basic
objective of developing this project is to maintain client details line contact
details, required property details, client type like residential and commercial
client. Information for registration of property for sale includes property
address, property description, price, facilities available. The Proposed System
will have powerful logical access management in place, where each user must be
identified by login id and strict password policy is applied to secure the
system.
CHAPTER ONE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
Real estate
can be described as Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along
with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water, immovable property
of this nature, buildings or housing in general.
Estate management
is the operation, control, and oversight of commercial, industrial or
residential real estate, usually on behalf of an owner.
Management indicates a need for the property to be cared for, monitored and
accountability given for its usable life and condition. This is much similar to
the role of management
in any business.
This involves the processes, systems and manpower required to manage the life cycle
of all acquired property as defined above including acquisition, control,
accountability, responsibility, maintenance, utilization, and disposition.
One important role of a Property Manager is that of liaison
between the Owner of record and the
actual tenant/lessee, providing a buffer for those owners who desire to
distance themselves from their tenant constituency
Other roles of the Property Manager include gathering data on
tenant payment habits as well as maintaining and keeping records about tenant
contacts, lease terms, property features, security deposits and payment
history.
1.2 Statement
of the Problem
Property
Managers encounter a number of problems when performing their role of estate
management. These are discussed in brief detail below.
- Records Loss:
Information and records stored in files and documents could be physically
damaged or lost due to theft and this could cripple the activities of the
Property Manager. - Unauthorized
Records Access: As the records and information about the estates managed
by the Manager are mostly stored in physical materials, it is very
possible for competitors or unscrupulous individuals to gain access to
these files by hiring a close associate of the Manager or via some other
means. Once the files or documents containing the information are found,
access to the records cannot be prevented. - Record Maintenance:
When the properties to be managed get very large, manually
maintaining the records in the documents becomes a cumbersome task for the
manager.
1.3 Aims and Objectives
This research project is aimed at implementing a Web
based Real Estate Management System to automate the management of the records
and information on the properties managed by the Property Manager.
The solution of the project will be implemented using a
three tier distributed architecture with a database server for information
storage, a middleware application and a client side application. The client
side will be designed using HTML (Hyper Text Mark-Up Language) and will be
viewed with a web browser. The records and
information about the tenants and properties will be stored using the MySQL
online database server while the middleware application will be implemented
using the PHP server side scripting language.
With the successful implementation of this project, Property
Managers will be able to more effectively manage the properties and estates
entrusted to them.
1.4 Significance
of the Study
With the successful implementation of the Web based Real
Estate Management System, record loss would be eliminated as the information
about the tenant contacts, lease terms, property features, security deposits
and payment history would all be digitally stored on an online database which
would have backup facilities. Security authorization mechanisms will be
implemented and enforced the system so that only authorized users will be
allowed to gain access to the information stored in the database. Also, large
records will be able to be managed more efficiently and search queries will be
effectively and easily performed by the system.
1.5
Scope and
Limitation
The scope of this project work covers
the design and implementation of a Web based Real Estate Management
System that will aid Project Managers to effectively
manage records about the properties and estates entrusted to them by their
owners.
This project research will be limited
to the management of records and information by the Property Manager and will
not cover the use of the Web based system as a means of communication between
the Manager and the tenants or the property owners.
1.6
Research Methodology
Source for the Data necessary for this project work will be
collected through research from journals, materials from the library and the World
Wide Web.
1.7 Definition of Terms
HTML:
HyperText Markup Language
(HTML) is the main markup
language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of
webpages.HTML is written in the form of HTML elements
consisting of tags enclosed in angle
brackets (like ),
within the web page content.
PHP:
PHP is a general-purpose server-sidescripting language originally designed for Web
development to produce dynamic Web
pages.
MySQL: MySQL is the world’s most used relational database management system
(RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of
databases. It is named after developer Michael
Widenius‘ daughter, MySQL. The SQL phrase stands for
Structured Query Language.