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Google Dumps Real Estate Listings!!!

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Real Estate Agent with The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services 13253167-SA00

Google Dumps Real Estate Listings. In December Google announced that they would no longer be adding real estate listings to google maps but at that time they scheduled the change to be in July 2011. Well, those dates have changed. 


On February 10, 2011 Google Maps will stop showing real estate listings from Google Base. 

On June 1, 2011 Google will discontinue Google Base. Most of the products built on the API of Google Base will be moved to a Google Shopping API. But they will no longer support real estate listings. 

Google Maps will still work and Google said that Realtors® who use Google Maps to put their listings on will still work and they encourage agents and companies that have this data to continue to place their listings on Google Maps. 

This means that if you put your listings on Google Maps and you put that Google Map on your website, it will work. You can do this. You can add your listings to Google Maps and have those maps on your blogs and websites. 

This also means that your Realbird Property Websites will still work. The maps on those websites will still work. That also means that all your SOLD property maps will still work on Realbird. 

The Realbird Listing Publisher is not affected by these changes. 

The Realbird Property Search is affected  by this change. However, Zoltan and Gabe are very smart innovators and they are creating a new data solution.  Realbird had a meeting yesterday with Google and although Realbird knew this was coming down the pipeline Google pushed up the date to stop Google Base sooner than they originally had said. 

But I am confident that Zoltan and Gabe will have a solution before June 1st. Until June 1st you can still use your Realbird property search. It is working fine. We just got two more buyer leads from Realbird Property Search today! 




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Comments (31)

Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Greg- For those agents who depend on Google Base to syndicate their listings- well, that is going to be the first thing they will feel, less traffic. While we can all populate our own maps the synergetic SEO of combining many listings on a Google maps was great. 

The agents who feel it right away will be those who refuse to spend money on IDX solutions. 

If also affects agents who are not members of mls or how are members of mls that don't allow the agents to use the data on their sites. I coach agents in these areas. It sucks that you pay for mls and then can not use it but there are geo areas in this country where that is the case. I am confident Realbird will have a solution for those agents. 

Jan 29, 2011 02:42 PM
Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL
Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408 - Daytona Beach, FL
Buy Daytona condos for heavenly good prices
Katerina - thanks for the clarification. It was very confusing, as to waht will work and what will not, so thanks.
Jan 29, 2011 03:23 PM
FN LN
Toronto, ON

Katerina - I had heard that Google Base was being dumped.  Thanks for advising how RealBird will be impacted.

Jan 29, 2011 04:12 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Don- They are shifting their focus to shopping, like in stuff and really want to compete in the android market. With Apple and Facebook being real players and competitors Google is rethinking the markets they want to cover. There are a lot of companies who built upon Google Base's API- and they all took the risk. Well, this just goes to show once again, the landlord can change the locks at any time. 

Jan 29, 2011 04:38 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Marc- Canada was great! 

Jan 29, 2011 04:38 PM
Tni LeBlanc, Realtor®, J.D.
Mint Properties, Lic. #01871795 - Santa Maria, CA
Tenacious Tni (805) 878-9879

I wondered about how this will affect Realbird.

I'm not ashamed to admit that the RealBird search device gets 3 times the visitors as my "regular" website.  And my IDX provider says my regular website is in the top 5% of all its websites.

Realbird rocks!  Rock on!

Jan 29, 2011 07:22 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Tni- That is huge! That is great! Yes, Realbird rocks! We get great results from Realbird property search and listing syndication. 

Jan 29, 2011 08:35 PM
Andrea Swiedler
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties - New Milford, CT
Realtor, Southern Litchfield County CT

Katerina, thank you for posting this, I have been waiting to hear from Realbird because one of my websites relies on the google search for properties.... and all I can think about is how many posts are out there with the search on them. I am thinking of going through each and every post to find them and mark them down to pull the search from them.

I have gotten leads, but never phone numbers. OK, one phone number only. I also think my email may go to spam when I respond. I keep forgetting to make the suggestion that when the person asks for more info they be given my email address so they can look for the email. Or else they are ignoring me.. ??? !!!

I love Realbird, I am confidant that things will work out. I am a bit anxious about it though!

Jan 30, 2011 12:32 AM
Eileen Hsu
Douglas Elliman Real Estate - Manhattan, NY
LICENSED REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON

I hope Gabe and Zoltan comes with creative solution to work around the Real Bird Search area.

Jan 30, 2011 01:00 AM
'The Diamond Group' 'A Cut Above The Rest'
The Diamond Group @ Keller Williams - Lubbock, TX
Lubbock Texas Real Estate

Our MLS is one of the pay me for your own information MLS' and it gets in the way of using our own information.  I'm anxious to find out more.

Jan 30, 2011 04:22 AM
Celeste "SALLY" Cheeseman
Liberty Homes - Mililani, HI
(RA) AHWD CRS ePRO OAHU HAWAII REAL ESTATE

Oh, goodness...I really hope they find a solution quick!

Jan 30, 2011 04:50 AM
Dan Quinn
The Eric Steart Group of Long & Foster Real Estate - Silver Spring, MD
Dan Quinn

Thanks Katerina.  I am using Google Base on one of my websites and this is very important info.

Jan 30, 2011 05:12 AM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Dan- Just the other year Google was at the NAR convention pushing their Google base on agents and brokers. I can only imagine how many agents and brokers jumped on that opportunity and hopefully did not put all their eggs into that basket. 

Jan 30, 2011 05:23 AM
Robert Schwabe
Herron Real Estate - Orange Park, FL
Orange Park Real Estate

Katerina  - I was worried what was going to happen to Realbird. Thanks for the update.

Jan 30, 2011 06:15 AM
Michael J. Perry
KW Elite - Lancaster, PA
Lancaster, PA Relo Specialist

Realbird is one of my Active Rain discoveries.  We are using it in our 2011 Marketing Plan.

Jan 30, 2011 12:29 PM
RealBird Real Estate Marketing
RealBird Inc. - Santa Cruz, CA
All-In-One Real Estate Marketing Toolkit

Katerina - Thank you VERY much for this post explaining the implications of Google's announcement. As you noted, the RealBird Listing Publisher is not affected at all and for the RealBird Property Search that uses Google Base, we are already working on a replacement data source. 

We are also very grateful for the supportive comments. We are working around the clock, as fast as we can, both on business development and on the technology so that we have the replacement data source ready for the same search application by the time Google Base is discontinued in June.

Thanks again for everybody for the support and for your business !

-- Zoltan & Gabe

Jan 30, 2011 01:13 PM
Debe Maxwell, CRS
Savvy + Company (704) 491-3310 - Charlotte, NC
The RIGHT CHARLOTTE REALTOR!

Katerina,  I heard this a few days ago and have a gut feeling that Google is buying Trulia.  I had a new Trulia announcement indicating there will be a change there so, if my gut is right, it's likely to happen in the near future.  

In the meantime, I'm sure that Zoltan and Gabe will keep us up and running in some way, shape or fashion.  I too, get fantastic leads from RealBird and love the ratio of leads that convert to buyers from there.  My last one was someone who saw one of my listings, wanted to view the property and purchased it (one phone call, one showing!)--a $1M+ listing!  And, I'm not utilizing RealBird to its fullest potential either--I just haven't gotten to everything!!  

I have, however, referred at least 50 agents to them, if not more, and they all love the site and love the convenience of using the maps on their websites for property searches.  I know that's a biggie for many agents so, again, I feel confident that Zoltan and Gabe are ON IT!

 

Jan 30, 2011 02:29 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Debe- interesting, according to all the internet speculators I follow, they are stating that Google is NOT interested in Real Estate listings anymore. I guess we will see. They say that Google is more focused on Google Shopping as the ad revenue there will be much more than in listings. Google did say that they want to leave real estate listings to the websites that are very well equipped to focus on listings. So I guess, we will find out soon:) 

Jan 30, 2011 02:39 PM
Lana Robbins Realtor ® Licensed Real Estate Broker
Aloha Kai Real Estate - Clearwater, FL
Licensed in Florida, Washington, and Hawai'i

Hi Katerina. I read about this in their blog. I am not too worried because Zoltan has a good handle on Realbird. I love using it.

Jan 30, 2011 04:00 PM
Sam Cooper
Howard Hanna Real Estate - Pickerington, OH
Sam Cooper Howard Hanna Real Estate

Great post. thank you for the information

Feb 01, 2011 11:50 AM