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Dev like you make the world better place to live in. Not cause its free but the initiative to code something that the big guys keep delaying. ..

I was asked to give honest review. well here it is.If you know the history this extension was a fork on misterestate n estate agent since j1.0 and mambo days. Nothing much was done to improved as their rename it to "ea improved". For joomla newbies and non programmers this is good start but do standby some dollars for your customization that's a MUST. Example imagine a property with selling price of $2M (u have to enter it exactly 2000000 (no commas, no space allowed-very very weak coding agree?)), moving on the price is $2m but the module wont "register" the max price in db and auto option in search module, strangely the max amount is $300,000 as in demo n live site.You have to hard code edit the module n coding yourselves to achieve a logical real estate solutions. try it yourself if u agree with me.The image module system is weak too, u have to enter each title n desc , save n go back to next one. why never use the uber powerful j!framework , jclasses? There are charging euro $38 for a year support with few hundreds members .With the money earn everyone agree a better development can be planned.Anyone who is familiar with cck, pls go ahead and look into that alternative which gives better value for money anytime. i hope JED team go n visit the demo site and be witness . cheers.

I am not sure if the below reviews all true (esp the positive ones).
My evaluation of the extension : its good for those who is new to joomla. This extension is a tweak of Estate Agent Improved.It has most of the thing u need to kickstart a very very simple real estate site.But for more experience users i will suggeest any cck out there.
Its very impractical when you limit some of the functions that could add value to the extensions. let me point some of them: the acoordion module display all feature. there is no way to disable some of them. The dev could at least
tought carefully abt this and implement a inclusion code. this has been requested but it just goes unnoticed.2. the slider come up strangely when the feature is not selected. Yes its good that we have cck like system to choose the field but its VERY VERY limited.

Pro: very simple, clean n fast. easy to setup.
Cons: Temple is not flexible enough. there is no subcat template. SEF url is not really sef url.Category n Subcat not sortable. (even a simple cck allow you to do this)
Performance: i tested with dummy 100,000 listing i can see the speed of the site greatly reduced. not sure if the dev has tested it to this level.Database need improvements.

Support: is one of the WORST ive seen for a paid customer. Just head down to the forum and witness yourselves.
I really need to send multiple ticket with the CAPS LOCK and attach a printscreen of the forum topic to get dev attentions.

Ease of usage and deployment : This extension force you to accept the coupon system which i dont find it usefull, there shld a variant to have the extension withour coupon system. i beleive this cause the speed issue above mentioned.
Not user friendly design at backend. editing a feature is very not user friendly. i dont this its a core MVC model used. there is some of the usefull j!code that never used that could be used. example the jpane, jtab,etc.
Editing a property is not user friendly. Go n test drive the backend. YOU HAVE TO KNOW the property REF ID IN ORDER TO EDIT THE PROPERTY. Isnt this a joke? a well planned development would not do this.
Purpose of using the extension (i.e., "I used this extension for a magazine site.")

I think the reason why the dev is lacking is could be low number of suscribers and buyers. We could not blame the dev for this. Same as MisterEstate where it goes into thin air with no new suscription.
But dear developer, if you charge people money for your extension you need to provide value for money extension and services. as for me i will forgo my $ and move to cck which is much robust n planned.

Hey but im looking at latest version it seem there is some improvement. if i find it satisfied i will come back again for this extension. This extension has its POTENTIAL.