Monday, April 4, 2011

MetroList Find - Power Search with Enhanced Neighborhood Knowledge

After spending some time browsing through the online help for the "MetroList Find" feature, I'm impressed by the text search capability and very pleased with the Neighborhoods Option which provide a mapped legend of a city's various neighborhoods.  Within the Neighborhoods option, you can 'Create your Own Neighborhood', 'Using City-Assigned Neighborhoods', and there is an additional option to 'Working with Your Neighborhood'.  Other options include 'Find Community', 'Find
Schools', 'View District Report' (view a complete list of all schools in the selected district).

After running a real estate Search to find a home on the real estate market, users can 'Open' the map, expand the 'Layers tab' and then expand the 'Neighborhoods and School District option'.  The interactive real estate map displays the neighborhood name label which is clickable and shows the boundary of the neighborhood once it's clicked.  I've been looking for this kind of software features and it really helps real estate agents.  I haven't tried the various natural language text search criteria and categories but will certainly do so soon.

I am also looking for a way to see if there is a real estate widget option for embedding this new Find and Neighborhood feature on real estate websites and blogs.  I have been using the widgets from Zillow and Trulia on this real estate blog.


Modesto Neighborhood Map from MetroList's Find
Modetso Neighborhood Map near Memorial Medical Center from the MetroList 'Find' Feature

There will be classes on the MetroList 'Find' and real estate agents can check out the 'Training' option in MetroList's Single Sign On.

1 comment:

Dan Statlander said...

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Dan Statlander
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