Indian Real Estate on Google Maps

PropertyFeast is a real estate search portal for properties for sale and rent across India.



PropertyFeast features Google Maps throughout the user experience. If a user browses for properties by location then they are shown a Google Map of India displaying the towns and cities with properties listed on PropertyFeast.



It is possible to search for a property by location, price and by type of property. The results of all searches feature a Google Map displaying the returned properties. Each individual property listing on PropertyFeast also features a map to show the property's exact location.



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New York Apartments on Google Maps

Renthop is a great rental apartment finder for New York. Using the Google Maps view it is possible to search for properties by the usual location, number of bedrooms and price filters.

Renthop, however, also includes a number of other useful search criteria. Rentop allows you to also search for properties that have no fee, a doorman, an elevator, a fitness center, a laundry in the building, a roof deck, cats allowed and dogs allowed.

If you are in the lucky position that you can actually afford to buy your own apartment in New York you can also use rentop's sister site realtyhop.

Renthop
Realtyhop

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A Google Map of House Price Reductions

Trulia: Price Reductions Map

Trulia has released a Google Map that can help in your search for a new home, helping you work out when house prices are likely to be reduced.

Trulia's Price Reduction Map presents house price change data from live non-foreclosure listings and tracks all price reductions from March 31, 2010 to March 31, 2011. Using Trulia's Google Map it is possible to search by zip-code for the average number of days a house is on the market in that area before sellers make their first reduction.

Using the map it is also possible to view the average price in an area that sellers normally cut by and the probability of a second price reduction within a zip-code area.

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Invest in Property with Help of Google Maps

Property Investment Map

If you are looking to develop your property investment portfolio in Australia then you should use this Google Map.

The map presents information on gross rental yields, capital gains, vendor discounts and top performing areas by suburb, for all of Australia (excluding ACT). It is also possible to view the overall trends for the last year or for the last five years.

Using the map investors can pinpoint suburbs with good rental yields and capital growth prospects. The Australian blog All things spatial says that the "Property Investment Map should be in the toolbox of not only investors but also anyone serious about purchasing a property."

Via: All things spatial

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How to Find Property Near the Best Schools

SchoolAndHousing.com

SchoolAndHousing.com combines real estate search with school API scores. The site allows you to search for the best schools in an area and then find properties for sale within the school's catchment area.

Using the SchoolAndHousing.com Google Map you can search for schools by address, zip code or API scores. Once you find a target school the boundary map of the school attendance area is displayed on the map. You can then search for homes within that area.

The returned properties are then displayed on the map and listed at the bottom of the page.

Via: Street View Funny

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Living in Toronto, Looking for a Condo

TheRedPin

TheRedPin is Toronto and the GTA's first one-stop condo destination, where condo buyers can find all project details, such as floor plans, amenities, model suites and more. On top of the project details, buyers also have access to a wealth of neighbourhood information, such as nearby schools and daycares, investment stats and neighbourhood amenities.

You can search for a condo using TheRedPin Google Map. You can search by location, price and by number of bed and bathrooms. TheRedPin also uses Google Maps to provide local amenity information as well as sales office directions for each condo project

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Turkey Google Maps Mashups Round-Up

Haritadan.com

This Google Maps application allows you to search for real-estate in Turkey. The map displays free adverts for real estate rentals/sales as well as room mate searches.

The properties available are displayed directly on the map. If you click on one of the displayed map markers you can view photographs of the property. At the top of the map a drop-down menu provides quick links to zoom to different Turkish towns.

Drop-down menus at the top of the map also allow you to refine your search for particular types of property and to search for specific addresses.

Currently the map doesn't work in Internet Explorer.

Mekanrazzi

Mekanrazzi is a Google Maps based directory for Turkey. Using the map you can search for local businesses anywhere in the country.

Using the built-in search you can find points of information at any location. For example, you can search for pizza restaurants in Istanbul. The results of your search are then displayed in the map sidebar and the locations are shown on the map.

Sondeprem.net

Sondeprem.net has created an embeddable widget that shows the latest Turkish earthquake news on a Google Map. By cutting and pasting a short piece of code you can add the map to your own website or blog.

The map itself animates through the latest earthquake news in Turkey. Map markers show the location of the news and a short headline is displayed at the bottom of the map.

The latest earthquake results are automatically updated on the map in real-time.

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Find an Apartment with Google Maps

MyApartmentMap

The apartment search engine MyApartmentMap officially launched yesterday.

MyApartmentMap was originally created in 2006 as a simple mashup of real estate and Google Maps to help its creator find an apartment in Boston. MyApartmentMap now provides detailed rental data for over 70,000 locations including states, cities, colleges, neighborhoods, military bases, and zip codes. Its database contains over 400,000 apartments from all 50 states.

Using MyApartmentMap users can search and view apartments with the help of Google Maps. It is possible to refine a search by location, price and number of bedrooms. Nearby grocery stores, restaurants, schools, and other points of interest can also be seen with the click of a button.

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Google Map of London's Expensive Homes

Dwellings by Council Tax Map - Bands F,G,H

CASA's Map Tube has been used to visualise the number of houses in different council tax bands in London. The council tax is the name for local authority taxation in the UK.

The level of tax that citizens pay is based on the value of their homes. Band A homes are the cheapest properties and therefore pay the least in local taxation, Band H homes are the most expensive properties and the owners in Band H are required to pay more in council tax.

The Council Tax Maps overlay the number of properties in different tax bands over a map of London. The resulting choropleth maps show which areas of London have the most expensive and the cheapest houses.

One of the great features of Map Tube is that you can add different data sets to the map. This means that you can compare cost of housing in different areas in London to other data sets such as crime, drug use and health.

Check out the Map Tube search option to browse the available overlays.

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Vacant Property Map of New York

Vacant NYC

New York charity Picture the Homeless is using the Usahidi report mapping system to help identify the city's vacant properties.

Picture the Homeless claim that the city spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on providing shelter to the homeless whilst perfectly good property languishes in the hands of private landlords and city agencies. The charity want New Yorkers to use Vacant NYC to map the property going to waste in their neighborhoods.

It is possible to report a vacant lot or property by e-mail, text message, by Twitter or by filling in a short form. All reports submitted will be added to the Vacant NYC Google Map. By plotting the vacant properties of New York Picture the Homeless hope to prove that there is enough property going to waste to make a real difference in the NYC housing market.

Via: ReadWriteWeb

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Using Google Base with Google Maps

The Big Property List

Google Maps offers the option to search for real estate in a number of countries now. The data for properties shown on Google Maps actually comes from Google Base. This of course means that anyone can set up their own website to also access these real estate listings using the Google Base API. That is exactly what The Big Property List have done.

One of the major criticisms of Google Maps' real estate option is that users actually want to view property listings in a list format. The Big Property List have tackled this criticism head-on by creating a familiar portal style listings interface for real estate in the UK.

The home page of the site includes a map so that users can quickly click on the region that they want to search. The properties for that region are then shown in a familiar list style. It is possible to refine the search by type of property, price range and number of bedrooms.

When you click on a property you are then taken to a dedicated page containing the full property details and a Google Map showing the location of the property.

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Property Hotspots on Google Maps

Trulia: National Home Prices Heat Map

Real Estate website Trulia provides a weekly heat map of home prices in the United States.

Trulia uses Google Maps to give users a quick view of the average listing price in every U.S. state. The tabs at the top of the map allow the user to switch between heat maps of the average listing price, the median sales price and Trulia popularity.

If you click on any of the states you can view the total number of homes for sale in the state and the average listing price.

Mouseprice

Mouseprice has created a nice heat map of property prices in England and Wales. Using the map it is possible to find the locations with the cheapest and the most expensive real estate.

Users of the map can view heat maps for average values or just the prices of new builds. You can also view heat maps showing the areas with the least and most 1 year, 5 year and 10 year growth. You can even view a heat map of crime in England and Wales.

The map includes a transparency control for the heat map layers. It is therefore possible to adjust the layers to view the locations beneath in detail.

Cenove Mapy

Czech real estate company, Bezrealitky.cz, have produced this Google Maps mashup to show current real estate prices in the Czech Republic. The site uses a heat map to show the relative prices of properties at 1m².

French Property Prices Map

This Google Maps mashup from MeilleursAgents.com shows the relative price of properties in France. A heat map, based on the latest month's property prices from MeilleursAgents.com, shows where in France you can buy the most expensive and cheapest properties.


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Walk Score now with Commute Score

Walk Score

Walk Score the site that helps you find a walkable place to live has today introduced two new features: Commute Reports and Transit Score.

After you’ve looked up an address on Walk Score, you can now get a summary of commuting options. Your Commute Report can include the time it takes to get to work, school or any other location by car, bike and foot and to see nearby public transit stops and routes. Walk Score shows your commute route on a Google Map and a visual representation of the hills between your home and destination.

As well as your Walk Score you can now also get a Transit Score. Your Transit Score provides a 0-100 rating indicating how well your home is served by public transportation. Transit Score is currently available in over 40 US cities where public transit information is available. These cities include Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C.

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Toronto Google Maps Mashup Round-up

Toronto Star: Map of the Week - Car Ownership

This week's Toronto Star Google Maps mashup is a map that shows car ownership in the Greater Toronto Area (although the title of the map, 'GTA Car Ownership Map', did make me wonder if it was a map of people who owned stolen cars).

The map is a heat map of car ownership as a percentage of households, using data from the 2006 census. The Map of the Week blog has an interesting analysis of the data. The analysis show a correlation between car ownership and income. The map also show some correlation between good public transportation links and low car ownership.

Rent Compass

Rent Compass can help you find properties to rent in Toronto and other Canadian cities.

You can search for properties by price, property type and by location. The results of your search are handily displayed on a Google Map. The map uses different map markers to show whether the properties are houses for rent or apartments.

If you click on the 'more details' link in a property's map marker a lightbox style window opens with the full details. If you want to be able to search for rental properties whilst on the move Rent Compass is also available for the iPhone.

Bring My Own Wine
This Google Maps mashup shows the location of bring your own wine restaurants in Toronto.

If you click on a map marker you can get the address of the restaurant and the corkage fee. The restaurants are also listed under the map.

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Find a House in Ireland with Google Maps

MyHome.ie

MyHome.ie is a nicely designed Google Maps mashup to display property for sale in Ireland.

You can search the map for property by location, price, type of property and by the number of bedrooms. The returned results are then displayed on the map. If you click on a property's map marker you can view a photo and a brief description. The information window also contains a link to view the full details of the property.

MyHome.ie also allows you to search for rental and commercial property in Ireland. There is even a function to view overseas property, which shows properties on the market mainly in the south of France and northern Spain.

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Egyptian Property on Google Maps

Makanoo

Have you ever fancied an adobe des-res with a scenic view of the Giza Pyramids?

Well Makanoo might not be able to help with you with that but it can help you find a property to buy or rent elsewhere in Egypt. Makanoo uses Google Maps to help you find properties by location, type of property and price.

To search for a property just choose your location and price range and Makanoo will return the results on a Google Map. If you click on any of the returned map markers you can view photos of the property and find contact details to buy the property.

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Spanish Real Estate on Google Maps

Zangoa

Spanish website Zangoa uses Google Maps as the main portal to holiday rental properties in Spain.

From the main map page you can select to view rental properties on the map by location, price and type of property. The returned map markers all contain links to the main page on the selected property.

On the property dedicated pages you can also choose to view another Google Map of the property, this time with local points of interest displayed on the map as well. The points of interest include local restaurants and sporting and cultural activities.


Other Spanish Real Estate Maps

• Fotocasa.es
• Locamio
• Nestoria

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French Property Prices on Google Maps

French Property Prices Map

This Google Maps mashup from MeilleursAgents.com shows the relative price of properties in France. A heat map, based on the latest month's property prices from MeilleursAgents.com, shows where in France you can buy the most expensive and cheapest properties.

As well as the countrywide map you can view heat maps for major French cities, such as Paris, Marseille, Nice and Strasbourg. The map also features dynamic URL's so if you want to share the current map view you can just cut and paste the URL from your browser's address bar.

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Spanish Google Maps Mashups Roundup

Accessia

Accessia is a Google Maps based application that allows users to view and get directions to university campus buildings and events. The University of Murcia in Spain is the first campus to use the application but more Spanish universities are coming soon.

The map includes a customised and fully detailed campus street map overlay on top of the base Google Maps tiles. Users of the map can get directions to anywhere in the campus. The map includes options to view Street View, webcams and pictures.

The map includes the option to find any campus buildings. From the side panel you can get directions, locate any building on the campus or find details about the locations of upcoming events to be held at the campus.

Minube

Minube is a nicely designed Spanish language social travel community that enables users to plan trips and share their travel experiences.

Minube allows you to browse the recommendations of other travellers and benefit from their experience. You can then plan your own personalised guide for your journey. including the places you want to see, the restaurants where you eat and the places you want to stay. The site even lets you compare flight and hotel prices.

Minube uses Google Maps throughout the site to show the locations of recommended locations.

SendaCLM

SendaCLM is a route sharing site for the region of Castilla La Mancha in Spain.

Users of the site can use Google Maps to create or find hiking or cycling routes. Users can include photographs and videos in their created routes. Users can add comments to routes created by others.

The site has plans to add kml and GPS downloading of routes in the future.

Barcelona Research and Innovation Map
The Barcelona Research and Innovation Map is a Google Map of all research institutions, research centres, technological centres, scientific-technical facilities, research and technology parks in Barcelona and its metropolitan area.

The map allows you to search its database by type of institution, by geographic area or by tags. All results are shown on the map and also listed by name. If you know of a research location that is missing you can add it to the map.

Locamio
Locamio is a free real estate listings site for Spain integrated with Google Maps. You can search for properties on the map by location and type of property.

The site includes Street Views of properties. Locamio also has its own Google Earth Layer and its listings are published in Google Base.


Read this post in Spanish

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Street View in Northern Ireland

PropertyPal Northern Ireland Street View Map

To help their customers get a better idea of the new Street View coverage in Northern Ireland PropertyPal have created this fun Google Maps mashup. Users of the map can drag 'Charley' around the map and drop him on a location to view the Street View at that location.

PropertyPal also use Google Maps Street View with their property listings. If you carry out a search for properties for sale on PropertyPal the results for each house give you the option to view the property on a Google Map and in Street View.



Including this Street View option allows prospective buyers to take a virtual tour of the neighbourhood around a house, to scope out local shops, schools and the environ.

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