#19 - Web 2.0 Awards List: Zillow.com & HousingMaps

HousingMaps, a mashup of Google Maps and Gregslist, enables you to search for real properties for sale or rent for major U.S. metropolitan areas, plus a few foreign cities. Why London and not Paris, Rome, or Berlin? Canadians will be happy to see Toronto and Vancouver represented, but what about Calgary, Regina, Montreal or Ottawa? You can limit your search results by price range. I was surprised to see quite a few Baltimore area properties in the $50,000-150,000 range, an indication that housing bubble has indeed burst.

Zillow.com is excellent for property searches in outlying towns and cities. Checking Zillow.com, the prices for homes in Washington and Frederick counties are much lower than they were two years ago.

HousingMap's useful features:

* Google Maps: Click on an icon to select city. In each city, click on the icons and see listings. You can also click the icons next to the each listing
* Price Range Drop-Down Menu
* Yellow icons have pictures.

Zillow.com's useful features:

Zoom in to the state level or below to see homes in this area.
For Sale: Homes that are for sale on Zillow by owners, agents, and builders.
Make Me Move™: Homes in which the owner has set "a dream price" for their home.
Recently Sold: Homes that have sold in the past 12 months or within the time range selected below under "Sold within."
All other homes: Homes for which we have Zestimate™ home valuations. These results cannot be filtered by price, beds, baths, etc.
Lists homes recently sold

Search criteria limiters:
Price: Any
Beds: Any
Baths: 2 + ba.

Range:
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Size: Any
Lot: Any
Type: Any
Sold within: Any
For Sale By: Any
Reset all selections

Estimate property's square footage.

Together with Zillow.com, two helpful reference tools when a customer is looking for home in a city, suburb and exurb and want to limits a list of properties to a particular price range.