Comments on: Condo Searching Just Got Easier

By: Jay Valento

Jay Valento — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:15:33 +0000

It looks great for someone who is techy oriented. But most of my clients hated a map search that we had on our website. I took it down….We found that consumers like easy to use searches. I do think that Wolfnet has a good product for searching…

By: Ben_Kakimoto

Ben_Kakimoto — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:23:00 +0000

The vendor who created the tool for JLS is Real Tech LLC. It’s based on Microsoft’s polygon drawing tool with Virtual Earth.

By: Reuben

Reuben — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:04:53 +0000

I love this tool. Does anyone know what it was made with, or what type of programming?

By: Ben_Kakimoto

Ben_Kakimoto — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:42:52 +0000

They are very similar. Though, I would say Redfin’s current map search is a copy of JLS rather than the other way around as JLS was the first real estate company to utilize VE. I don’t doubt that Redfin will roll out a similar tool. And, another local company uses the same technology vendor as JLS so I suspect they’ll have the feature in a couple of months.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:14:54 +0000

This site is almost a complete copy of the Redfin site.

The neighborhood wizard is a cool feature but its a little awkward to use. It seems like it would be easier just to zoom into the area you want to search in rather than take the time to box it off. The zoom tool helps narrow your search just as easily.

I like the ability to see the bird’s eye view. That’s about the only “neat” feature on this site. This is just an extension of Microsoft Visual Earth. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Redfin roll that out in the next update to their site since they are also using the same technology.

By: Agent Scoreboard

Agent Scoreboard — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:12:44 +0000

This tool is pretty sweet… I guess thats what you get for being bill gates neighbor.