The use of Google maps has long been a listing display enhancement feature for many real estate agent Websites in one way or another. However, it wasn’t until very recently that Google’s latest mapping innovation, Street View, was made available to individual agent sites as well.
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Almost Like Being There; Google Street View Now Available to Agents
Not since the acquisition of Rudy Bachraty, has the Trulia team unleashed such “coolness” in the real estate community! As of today, Trulia is the first national real estate search Website to incorporate Google’s Street View technology.
Google’s Street View mapping is a phenomenal tool for real estate agents. With it, agents and consumers can view a property up close at street view level, walk or drive past the property and surrounding neighborhood, and even check out the yard and other attributes of the lot. For those agents specializing in relocation, this is obviously a powerful resource for learning about a new area. Rudy, Trulia’s Social Media Guru, adds, “Besides zooming in on the minute details of the exterior of the house, now you can actually take a peek at the neighborhood too. It’s the next best thing to being there.”
Now buyers can arm themselves with “real living” information.
A concerned parent can map a child’s walk to the nearby school.
A commuter can find out more about road conditions and traffic patterns.
An iced mocha addict (like myself) can locate all the nearest Starbucks to maximize her caffeine intake.
Oh the possibilities! This new feature is available now in more than 30 U.S. cities and the images on Trulia are being updated real-time as more locations are added. To check out this great technology for yourself, visit Trulia.
Related: RealBird Integrates with Street View API
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Trulia First to Go Google Street View
Zoltan of RealBird clued me in to Google’s release of their new Street View API Thursday. Meaning developers can now integrate street view maps with ease. You can bet this API’s popularity will surely explode in real estate websites as buyers will appreciate the convenience of previewing neighborhoods from remote locations.
Realbird has already begun taking advantage. You may remember we talked about manually embedding these maps. Well not anymore, Zoltan has integrated the new API in with RealBird’s Listing Websites.
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RealBird Integrates with Street View API
