Schema.org for a rental site with more than one apartment per address

[AdrienOLeary]

I am looking for advices on how to best start adopting schema.org for an apartment rental site with more than one apartment per address.

I would like to get feedback and suggestions on my initial thoughts.

Here are the obvious ones:

1. http://schema.org/Place for the address of the building an apartment is in.
2. http://schema.org/ApartmentComplex for the unique page for each apartment.

Any thoughts or experiences you would like to share?

Thanks,

Adrien O'Leary

[Njnbiure45r4]

Schema helps a lot to set up and arrange the visual view data of the website. I have applied it to my Irwell Hill project.

[niclaus78]

Hi guys, Im working for a SaaA site that contain flatshare ads, would you let me know which schema would apply better?

Thanks

Nicolas

[AdrienOLeary]

Kane, your link helped. Especially because it got me to discover http://www.productontology.org/!

[KaneJamison]

I'm not familiar with it. Some decent info on it at http://semanticweb.com/schema-org-adds-additional-type-property_b30861, but not sure if that's helpful.

[AdrienOLeary]

Kane, I appreciate the feedback and I know realize that there are no specific properties for Residence or AppartmentComplex. One question about additionalType. Any input on finding the right RDFa syntax for that property?

[KaneJamison]

So, those are attributes for Things and then Places (a subset of Things). Because of that, they apply to subcategories. The current Schema.org structure apparently does not add any new attributes for Residences or Apartment Complexes. Obviously that may not be right, but I've seen this in other Schema.org categories that are missing attributes that would make sense to have.

[AdrienOLeary]

Hi Kane, I appreciate the answer.

One additional question. Why are the properties listed at http://schema.org/Residence the same than the ones listed at http://schema.org/ApartmentComplex (while the latest one is a some kind of sub-type of the first one)?

Thanks,

Adrien O'Leary

[KaneJamison]

http://schema.org/ApartmentComplex is going to be the correct formatting to use. That includes an implicit relationship to the Place markup based upon containedIn.

The number of apartments/suites/etc won't affect the Schema markup, as long as everything is on the same street  number (e.g. 1234 Oak St).

However if the complex contains multiple buildings with separated street numbers (e.g. 1234 Oak St as well as 1237 Oak St) then that may affect your approach. In that event I'd probably choose the building that the rental office is located in (assuming that's onsite), and this is also going to have to match the address you're using for all of your citations across the internet.