Mountain View, California — Google has reinforced its map search considerably since introducing in July, and has since made one upgrade in October, and now the search titan is making many other interesting changes to make property searches easier and search results more useful for users, the most significant being the option to search for properties by simply adding “real estate” to a map search.
Now, simply searching for “real estate” will return, well, real estate (try it)! You could also try “homes for sale sydney” or “homes for rent adelaide”. Or while you are at it, check out “apartments for sale brisbane”, or “homes for rent near perth”. The concept is to make it really easy for you guys – you tell us what you want, and we get it back to you! Of course, we will continue to work to return the best results for all your Google Maps queries, whether you’re looking for local businesses, geographic features, or your perfect home.
Apart from this feature, Google has also integrated real estate listing and hosted in on Place Pages. This gives Google users a day of rest, away from everything.
The place pages, named Google Base, will combine listings sent in by agents and brokers, and every listing will have its individual page, and one single page will give the users all the information about a property, including details of the property, pictures, videos and its street view, among others.
The updated real state search options were unveiled by Google Australia’s software engineers in a post on the company’s official blog. As of now, Google Base only includes homes for sale, apartments which are available for rent and distressed property listings from across Canada and US.
Here is the official Google press release from Google.