Google has just added the SteetView feature its Google Maps site for the Charlotte area.  While coverage is not 100%, it's pretty good.  For years, savvy agents like myself have been using the local GIS services to look up images on a particular property.  The images were blurry and the property lines weren't close but at least you knew which lot you were looking at. 

Recently, Microsoft launched its BirdsEye View on its Live Search Maps site.  With it, you were looking at more of a 75% angle than straight on like a typical overhead.  This improved things further and is still useful since you can see all 4 sides of a particular home on the day that picture was taken. 

With StreetView, you can take a digital drive past that house with relative ease.  You can even move up and down the street like you were driving.  This program has added benefit because if you take pictures around any major cities these days, you may end up in police custody on suspicion of being a terrorist...which will ruin your day.

Here is a Street View of one of my favorite condo complexes in Uptown Charlotte: Fifth and Poplar.  I absolutely love this development because in the basement is a Harris Teeter grocery store and in the center a large open park (shown below). 

This is a great tool for buyers to use, especially relocators to learn more about the area and neighborhoods in Charlotte.

Your Trusted Real Estate Adviser;

Jonathan Osman
Charlotte NC Homes, Charlotte Real Estate