RealEstate.com Visitors Explore Neighborhoods with a Whole New View

Google Maps Street View Addition Provides Users Drive-By Real Estate Experience from the Comfort of their Own Homes

RealEstate.com has begun providing the Google Maps Street View^TM feature across its entire portal of nearly two million real estate listings, which brings online real estate search one step closer to real life. Here is an actual listing in San Diego, CA: http://www.realestate.com/Property/9592125-250406-Albatross-San-Diego-CA-92101-080042926.aspx

RealEstate.com's addition of Street View is an innovative feature for real estate Web sites and gives visitors a true, first-hand experience from the comfort of their own home computers. Street View, which has imagery from over 40 metropolitan regions nationwide.

"We're really excited about adding the Street View feature from Google Maps to RealEstate.com because it provides our visitors a new and interesting viewpoint for their online real estate searches," says Greg Hanson, vice president of product excellence for RealEstate.com. "This has allowed us to achieve speed to market with this feature, and we look forward to hearing from our customers to see what they think."

Street View will be featured in all available home sale listings found on RealEstate.com. Previously, visitors to RealEstate.com viewed an album of photographs including several inside and outside pictures of available properties. Now, where Street View imagery is available, a visitor will also see a "Street View" link located below the listing information where they can click and get a drive-by snap shot of the house and a 360 degree tour of the street and the neighborhood. Visitors can walk the neighborhood virutally.