FW Real Estate – Documentation

The FWRE Rentals add-on is what makes "For Rent" a real listing rather than a label. Without it the rental concept does not exist anywhere in the product — not on the property form, not on the property page, and not in the listing query. The core search carries no lease condition at all. Install it and the full letting side of the catalogue comes to life; disable it and rentals disappear cleanly rather than half-working.

A property may carry both a sale price and a rent figure at the same time. Rent is a separate field this add-on owns — it does not overwrite the core's sale price.

Dictionaries Added

Four new dictionary types appear in FW Real Estate → Dictionaries once the add-on is installed. Each is managed and translated like the built-in ones, and values can be added on the fly directly from the property form.

• Lease Term — Short-term, Long-term, Holiday let, and so on. This is the dictionary that drives filtering, and its sort order is yours to set.
• Payment period — per month, per week, per night, and similar.
• Habitable — the condition the property is let in: furnished, unfurnished, part-furnished, and so on.
• Pets — the pet rules a property allows; a single property can carry several values.

Rental Pricing Card on the Property Form

A Rental Pricing card appears on the property's Primary tab alongside the core sale-price fields. It contains the following fields:

• Rent — the letting price, stored separately from the sale price.
• Payment period — from the Payment period dictionary.
• Lease type — from the Lease Term dictionary; this is what visitors filter on.
• Lease term (text) — a free-text field for term descriptions where a dictionary value would be too rigid.
• Minimal term (months)
• Deposit
• Habitable condition — from the Habitable dictionary.
• Pets allowed — multiple choice from the Pets dictionary.
• Available from / Available to — the letting window.

Frontend Display

On every surface that shows a price — listing cards, search results, the property page — the property's lease term appears as a chip beside the price. This ensures a rental is never misread as a sale price in a mixed portfolio.

On the property page, a headed Leasing Terms section follows the main specification. It lists the letting details the property actually has: Deposit, Payment period, Minimum lease term, Availability, Habitable condition, and Allowed pets. Empty values are omitted rather than shown blank. The section only appears for a property that has a lease type set — a for-sale listing is completely unaffected.

Filtering by Lease Term

Visitors can narrow results by lease term in two places:

• The Search module — a Lease Term field alongside the other filters.
• The listing toolbar — a Lease Term select beside the Ordering control on listing pages.

Both feed the same filter, so re-sorting or switching view does not reset the visitor's choice.

Locking a Menu Item to One Lease Type

A Search menu item can have a fixed lease type set in its add-on parameters. When set, that lock wins over whatever the visitor passes in the URL. This is what makes a dedicated "Holiday lets" or "Short-term rentals" page trustworthy — it cannot be widened to the full catalogue by editing the query string.

Import and Export

Ten CSV columns are added to the core import/export: rent, lease term, minimal term, leasing deposit, lease type, payment period, habitable, pets, available from, and available to. A rental portfolio can round-trip through a spreadsheet without losing any letting data.

Field-Level Control

All rental fields — Pets, Lease Term, Payment period, Leasing deposit, Minimum lease term, Habitable, and Availability — appear in FW Real Estate → Fields. Each can be unpublished or restricted to an access level site-wide, and overridden per property on its Field Access tab. Availability is governed by a single toggle that covers both the from and to dates together.

To install this addon, open the Add-ons panel inside FW Real Estate. See Getting Started → Add-ons for details on free addons, paid addons, and site verification.