Trulia announces new map-search tools
Users can select, save real estate search boundaries
By Inman News, Friday, October 7, 2011.
Online real estate search and marketing company Trulia on Thursday announced new map-search features on its website, including a large map view that fits "the entire size of your monitor" and the ability to search within user-specified map boundaries.
The company reported that custom map boundaries was cited by about 73 percent of respondents in a recent survey for the company as the "No. 1 most desired feature."
Users can click on a tool that allows them to define a polygon by clicking on a map. That customized map area can be saved for future searches, and users can choose to receive alerts when there are newly listed for-sale homes or rentals within those boundaries.
Move Inc. has launched similar custom-search functionality, dubbed Area Highlighter, for its mobile apps, and Seattle-based brokerage firm John L. Scott was among the first brokerage companies to offer a user-defined area in real estate searches -- that company's tool is called Neighborhood Wizard.
Screenshot of Trulia's custom map boundaries tool.
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Submitted by Jay Thompson on October 8, 2011 - 10:29am.
FlexMLS has offered this for five years. And their IDX product provides it to consumers. Just saying.
Jay Thompson
Broker / Owner
Thompson's Realty
Blog: www.PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com
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Submitted by Greg Baker on October 10, 2011 - 8:13am.
Great tool!
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