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Google Maps Offers Real Estate Listings

Realtors have had a hard time these past six or so months; as the housing market crashed, the competition for buyers grew fierce.  Now Google's making things even more interesting by introducing a real estate search option on the main page of Google Maps.

Scammers Target Craigslist Realtor

Newspaper classifieds have a friend in scammers. Though hemorrhaging sales to Craigslist, fraudulent posters there may drive legitimate businesspeople back to where they've done business for decades.

Trulia Obtains A Street View

Try to search for a house.  Checkboxes concerning prices, square footage, and the number of bathrooms can only take you so far - hundreds of results might show up.  You can peer at tiny, cropped photos, but that's not great, either.  So a new deal between Google and Trulia brings Street View into the picture.

Real Estate Sites Drawing Traffic Due To Foreclosures

Real estate Web sites are featuring a growing number of homes that are in pre-foreclosure and foreclosure. In March, Yahoo Real Estate launched a site focused on foreclosures with Realty Trac broadening the reach of information to nearly 500 million global users. "The goal for you as a buyer is to purchase a property at least 20 percent below full market value, although better deals are often possible," reads Yahoo's site.

Roost Enters Real Estate Search

This doesn't seem like the ideal time for a real estate search engine to launch; individuals are probably afraid to get into the home-buying market, and lenders are probably afraid to let them.  Still, a new contender has arrived, and Roost is pretty impressive.

Zillow Adds Houses, Improves Accuracy

When ridiculously large financial figures get tossed about, I like to think of them in terms of houses.  As in: would I rather own my own small county or a faltering tech company?  But with Zillow being what it is, figures usually come in house form, anyway, and the freshest news relates to a whopping 10 million homes.

Zillow To Run Newspaper Real Estate Ads

Real estate site Zillow.com, which focuses on house price comparisons has entered a deal with the publishers of 282 newspapers to carry their real estate advertisements.

Real Estate Blog Raises $1.5 Million

So what if the real estate market is tanking?  I think that’s much more interesting to read about than a break-even or everybody-gets-rich scenario, and some investors may feel the same way; Curbed.com, a blog that covers real estate, just received $1.5 million in funding.

Zillow "Rezeives" $30 Million In Funding

As funding rounds go, this was a big one: Zillow raised a fresh $30 million.  Look for the already-popular real estate site to really take off as a result.

Google, YouTube Grow In San Bruno

I buy clothes once a year or so (if that).  I run searches dozens, if not hundreds, of times per day.  So on the whole, I’m rather pleased with this development: Google is taking over a San Bruno, California property formerly inhabited by Gap Inc.