# How to store real estate data in an elastic search?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-real-estate-data-in-an-elastic-search/266747>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 9, 2021, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-real-estate-data-in-an-elastic-search/266747 "2021-03-09T19:46:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![jay2021](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@jay2021](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jay2021)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-real-estate-data-in-an-elastic-search/266747/1 "2021-03-09T19:46:32Z")

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I have Real Estate data. I am looking into storing it into elastic search to allow users to search the database real time.

I want to be able to let my users search by key fields like price, lot size, year-built, total bedrooms, etc. However, I also want to be able to let the user filter by keywords or amenities like "Has Pool", "Has Spa", "Parking Space", "Community"..

Additionally, I need to keep a distinct list of property type, property status, schools, community, etc so I can create drop down menu for my user to select from.

What should the stored data structure look like? How can I maintain a list of the distinct schools, community, type to use that to create drop down menu for the user to pick from?

The current data I have is basically a key/value pairs. I can clean it up and standardize it before storing it into Elastic Search but puzzled on what is considered a good approach to store this data?

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-real-estate-data-in-an-elastic-search/266747/2 "2021-03-09T23:49:54Z")

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I would start with [Elastic App Search](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/app-search/current/getting-started.html) it will simplify almost all that , in short you are describing a catalog which happens to be real estate.

Here is a great [quickstart](https://www.elastic.co/training/app-search-quick-start)  
Here is a good [webinar](https://www.elastic.co/webinars/app-search-fundamentals-ingestion-tuning-and-user-interface) coming soon.

App Search supports facets (the category) filters, fuzzy search of the description, pinning certain results , geo-search etc, relevance tuning through a GUI etc.

It is also super easy to ingest / test data.

And if you just want to try it out real quick you could launch a trial on [cloud.elastic.co](http://cloud.elastic.co) then if you like it you could download and run basic for free.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-real-estate-data-in-an-elastic-search/266747/3 "2021-04-06T23:50:31Z")

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