Google Street View - Useful for Realtors?

Google finally added their new "Street View" feature to Portland area Google Maps this week.

You can now see full 360 degree street view imaging of properties in the metro area. They're still driving around imaging in certain areas, and will eventually cover the area entirely. I'm pretty impressed by the amount of coverage already though.

Here's an example showing a home I visited during last weeks Tuesday Tour for the low price of $1.6 million:

I think this will soon be replacing the mapping programs currently found on a lot of Realtor websites. Their clients will be able to see the house, the street views, the neighbors, etc...

That's pretty cool if you ask me.

Here's the same property from the John L Scott site currently using MS Virtual Earth technology:

You can clearly see the difference between the two. Plus, imagine how much more engaged a client will be by being able to manipulate the views of the homes they are viewing.

It'll be interesting (to me at least) to see who can implement this into their website first.