Google Australia has added real estate listings to its countries Google Maps, enabling users to search for up-to-date home and apartment listings across the country.
From the Google Australia Blog:
“Increasingly, people are heading online when looking for a new house to rent or buy, and from today, we’re adding the ability to search for properties on Google Maps. We’ve worked with partners across the real estate industry to provide up-to-date listings, which you can search for directly from the Google Maps search box.
You can check it out by entering a search like ‘real estate crows nest’ and clicking through to search real estate listings. A marker will appear on the map for every available listing, using our new search results feature, so you can get a really good idea of the distribution of the properties for sale or rent. This also means you can perform a search and see all the properties for sale close to, for example, a local school you’re interested in your kids attending. You can click on each marker and each small circle to get more detailed information about the property, including the listing agent’s website and contact details.
It’s also easy to refine your search further by criteria like bedrooms, bathrooms, garaging and price. And if you decide that Seaforth is more your speed, you can pan the map to another area entirely to see the listings there, and the map will automatically update, without typing anything new.”
Check out the video below for an explanation of how real estate search on Google Maps works.
(Update: it appears all Google Maps properties will show real estate listings)
