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HomeGain Adds Google Street View to Home Valuations

Published by Joseph Ferrara (2) May 4th, 2009 in HomeGain. Comments

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HomeGain is the latest real estate website to add Google’s Street View to its site.

Visitors checking home values on HomeGain.com/homevalues can take a visual tour and look-see of the surrounding neighborhood …. and discover the computer could not see (or factor in) the unzillowable graffiti down the block when it valued the house for sale.

Google Street View is available in most major cities (as is graffiti).

HomeGain Street View Press Release here.

I hear Google is coming out with Smell & Hear View next, which lets you get a whiff of the neighborhood as you listen to the traffic noise.

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  • bestmanish
    It is a great filling of working with Google and milestones are always a good time for introspection. Interesting, fun, surprising, insightful, inspiring, impactful, and more such words.

    Google is not quite as big as many companies out there, but in its space it has a huge user base for most of its applications (search and beyond). Anything you analytics menu-googlework on will probably touch hundreds of thousands of people.

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  • I think this may be a handy tool for an investor that may be out of state or country. Yes you must rely on the realtor that you are working with to give you accurate info/pictures on the property...but this can be something to make an investor feel that much better about putting his/her money into an investment they haven't seen.
  • What is google going to get into next? They are starting to make everyone else look stupid and outdated. I guess that is technology for you. Something will always be better and faster.
  • Google has become the internet. Microsoft's Virtual Earth is pretty neat
    too.
  • How about scratch-n-sniff listing postcards? Smell the roses in the garden.
  • Google is everywhere. When they decide to sell real estate, we had to jump on board. Zillow is a laughingstock around these parts for all the inaccuracies, oh wait, its just a 30% plus or minus. Smellovision.. I have heard of that about to happen since about 1972. :)
  • Pretty neat the way the technology is being tightly woven in with google. Gives a great visual of the neighborhood, but nothing beats going to see it your self.

    If you see something you like use a realtor to help.

    Brian
    Ft Lauderdale Mortgage
  • Yes. A realtor knows the street view at night and on the weekends.
  • Too many photos would be intrusive, too few photos and they may not be representative.

    Nothing beats going to see the house yourself with a Realtor.
  • Well, I guess it's a little better for home buyers when they can actually see what their getting. When will Google be making movie reenactments of past crimes in the neighborhood?
  • jfsellsius
    Homes and neighborhoods have to be experienced in person (who knows, what looks like graffiti may be public art). Experienced agents on the ground (and residents) know the experience and are a buyer's best bet for evaluating a neighborhood and a home.

    Street View is great but eventually we'll all be able to tap into the Big Brother cameras being installed throughout the country and see "real time" what's happening in a neighborhood. That lovely daytime Street View may look completely different at night or on the weekend.
  • Are you saying that Zillow doesn't take things like Graffiti into account when presenting a Zestimate? Say it ain't so, Joe!

    I'm looking forward to Google House Scan . . . the tool that combines floor plans with 3d rendering, and a bit of spy technology to show everyone in the neighborhood what is going in inside your home.
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