Tag: REAL ESTATE

Google has announced it will discontinue the real estate listings in Google Maps on February 10th, 2011. Real estate search was introduced in 2009, and it allowed users to look for property for rent or sale directly on Google Maps. The problem is that it never had the most complete or useful collection of listings, and competing real estate search sites passed it by while the Google Maps team was ...

Zillow is taking the wraps off its new service today, the Mortgage Marketplace. Designed as a meeting ground between mortgage borrowers and lenders, Zillow Mortgage Marketplace aims to solve most of the common complaints that borrowers and lenders have with the normal mortgage process. For starters, the marketplace does not require that borrowers provide extensive personal information up front. In ...

In the online real estate market, we already have Trulia and Zillow, but a new player is emerging that should be looked at. Roost is an easy to use, lean website that gives you easy access to real estate listings in specific markets. The site has forged agreements with various Multiple Listing Services (MLS) throughout the country to give users a high volume of listings to look through. What sets ...

Last month a legal web site was found guilty of practicing law without a license. Now online real estate appraisal service Zillow has received a cease and desist order from the state of Arizona for offering estimated home prices without a state appraiser license. The Arizona Board of Appraisal decided what Zillow is offering is essentially an appraisal, despite the fact that Zillow's website ...

If you're looking to move your family to a new abode, an important consideration is often the quality of the schools in the areas you are looking for. To help with the decision, Yahoo! Real Estate has added a nationwide school search feature to it's service. The schools are displayed on the embedded Y! Map, so you get all the zoom \ pan \ images that you'd expect. Each school is linked to more ...

Exactly as its name implies, the Tiny Menu extension allows you to compress your entire Firefox menu bar into one item. And, thanks to a recent update, that item is now even smaller. Setting up Tiny Menu isn't entirely intuitive, so I'll outline the steps to save you a bit of time: Download and install Tiny Menu (don't forget to restart Firefox) Click your 'new' menu (the M) and then ...

I've not used the Yahoo! Real Estate service before, but this post to the Yahoo! Search blog perked my interest... Yahoo! has integrated a few of it's services with Zillow to give you instant home valuations of any address in the US. A map of the area is displayed using Y! Maps beta technology (so you can move it around \ zoom \ switch to satellite) that displays comparable homes in that area - ...

Thanks to Frank K. for sending us a link to Emongoo in the comments of our Google real estate mashup post. I have no idea what Emongoo is supposed to mean (except for a formerly-available URL with a .com extension), but I can tell you it's pretty cool for what it does. Emongoo is a home listing site that gives you a place for your home, 20 images, and will send you a "For Sale" sign. All of this ...

I seem to remember not too long ago Microsoft claiming that the new MSN Search was going to mop the floors with Google. Whether or not I just imagined that, Microsoft is playing the same tune today. Reuters reports that Microsoft expects to "be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google" in six months time with the launch of a new search engine. They claim the new search engine ...