Houston Business Journal: Houston added to list of cities with Street Views
from the Houston Business Journal: Google "late Monday added street-level views of Houston, Orlando, Fla., Los Angeles and San Diego to its worldwide mapping project."
Google says the pictures are useful. People shopping for real estate can look at homes and neighborhoods, for example, the company says."
Houston is one of nine U.S. metropolitan areas and the only Texas city with Street Views so far."
comment: It would be interesting to see how much more real estate will be sold purely online in these areas. Real estate investors (companies and individuals) have been doing it for a while now, but consumers are just starting to get into it. My guess is that there will definitely be an increase in purely online real estate sales especially since most contracts have an inspection contingency. Now if we could only have closings online, that would be great!
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Comments
Through browsing the map to get some directions, I noticed this the other day by chance. I think it's great!
Though only major streets are covered at the moment, I wonder if they are going to take the initiative to actually get 360 views of subdivisions.
If so, that would be wonderful. Imagine investors getting a preview of homes by simple going online.
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September 12, 2007 08:53 AM