E-COMMERCE WEBSITE FOR REAL ESTATE AGENCY INTEGRATED WITH VIRTUAL REALITY

The birth of Internet can be said as the most important technological innovation to impact
every aspect ofour lives since the inventionofthe automobile and the elevator. It created
a borderless world for people to communicate and seek for information and new
knowledge.
The project is about developing a web site for a real estate agency that provides
information on property available for sale and rent. The reason for this project is to
encourage more Malaysians to use Internet as a medium for online shopping, to increase
the rate of Internet usage in Malaysia, and to provide a real estate service for people in
the Ipoh regionas there is no company that focus its operations for the Ipoh market.
The objectiveof the project is to design a website for real estate industry, to analyze the
potential and suitability of E-Commerce in the real estate industry, and to evaluate the
potential ofE-Commercein the real estate industry.
The website is developed based on the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). It
consists of four phases; analysis phase,designphase, development phase,and evaluation
phase. The methodology is usedto plan the development of the project
To evaluate the efficiency of the website in overcoming the problems, a test has been
conducted. From the test, it seems that the participants are willing to try this kind of
service and agree that real estate industry can gain benefits from the Internet. As to
conclude, we must firstly understand the drivers of the technology innovation. Malaysia
has a hugepotential for Internet procurement and we shall not wasting the advantage that
we have.