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Visionary home search for Toronto.
RealEstatePlus.ca has just launched.
This is a ground-breaking event for the real estate industry in Canada. RealEstatePlus.ca employs some of the latest technologies — Web 2.0 for the initiated — to help people personalize their search for a new home. Combining customization functionality including flexible search parameters, saved searches, watch lists and alerts with advanced mapping technologies, users can gain deep insight about homes, neighbourhoods and cities before speaking with an agent.
The premise of the site is to enable users to search for homes in a way that is intuitive to them. As a result, all functionality is geared to personalizing the user experience – familiar terminology for neighbourhoods and geographic boundaries, search diversity for listings and neighbourhoods, intuitive search results and the ability to review both demographic and behavioural data. Because a home constitutes much more than the physical structure, RealEstatePlus.ca offers a 360 degree view of any home including the neighbourhood, the house itself, the people, amenities and cultural institutions.
The site is also designed to maintain a collaborative approach with users. It elicits feedback from users and promises to introduce new functionality and technology capabilities based on user demand.
The current Beta release is limited to the resale market in the City of Toronto but the RealEstatePlus.ca Team has an ambitious time-table for expansion.
Try it ... we know you will love it.
May 9, 2007 in What's next (in real estate) | Permalink
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This is some cool innovative stuff, I look forward to see what comes out next.
Posted by: Atlanta Real Estate | Aug 7, 2007 10:47:27 AM
Congrats on the launch. Just launched myself and I know it can be a little bit wobbly. You've got a concept just keep rockin.
Posted by: Keith | May 30, 2007 5:29:29 PM
Well you may have to signin first from there you can get username password.
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Posted by: Richard | May 17, 2007 2:20:15 AM
Nice looking map. I am wondering if the website is for real estate agents or if it's another FSBO website. You can see ours at http://www.bytheowner.com . Your maps look a lot like viewit's.
Posted by: William | May 11, 2007 9:51:28 AM
Looks cool, sounds cool, I just hope it is cool.
I will check it out.
Posted by: Toronto Real Estate | May 11, 2007 12:15:14 AM
It should have been called RealEstatePlusForWindows.ca because the most useful feature, the map view, doesn't work on Firefox (Bon Echo) on a Mac, unlike sites based on Google, Mapquest, Yahoo, etc, etc, etc maps which have a full feature set and work in any modern browser (including Microsoft's line of nearly standards based products).
I guess you missed the idea about the Web being vendor neutral. Unbelievable that such an offering should basically turn into a promotion for Microsoft Viral Earth. I guess I'll keep looking and hope you don't have some kind of exclusivity arrangements.
Posted by: davidm | May 10, 2007 10:25:52 AM
congrats on the launch! I definitely look forward to playing on the site! :)
Posted by: Dustin | May 9, 2007 2:03:32 PM
It seems the site requires some form of authentication. I understand it's in beta, but why do you post about things that just don't work?
Posted by: Vasile | May 9, 2007 10:31:09 AM
Just tried to click on the link now, it seems you need a username and password. Where can I get one?
Posted by: Michael | May 9, 2007 9:02:16 AM
