An addictive easy way to shop for homes
As you may have already noticed, this week sees the release of our new map and property page interface design! We’ve been hard at work on this interface for the past few weeks, and I think it really paid off. While the physical—well, virtual—act of ripping out and replacing code started just recently, the road to this new interface design...
We spotted the truck this summer and now it’s here. … and Bellevue and Tacoma and Renton and Edmonds. Even Carnation. Google (and Estately) just flipped the switch on StreetView in Seattle. That means you can now quickly see every home for sale (often in it’s pre-prettified state) in context and you can pan up and down the block to...
For one final day, searching for real estate in Portland is scary. If you turn to a comprehensive MLS-based website, addresses are hidden. They lurk unseen until you call an agent or get in your car and drive by (Eeek!). It’s also a total pain-in-the-butt to look at a home, see where it is on the map, but not know...
An Estately power-user asks “what the heck does BOM mean?” Is it a Bank Owned Mansion? Bom Chicka Wah Wah? It actually has nothing to do with “Bank Owned.” In the cut-off, use-every-available-letter-in-the-description-allowed world of real estate listings, BOM is shorthand for “Back On Market.” It means someone was trying to sell their home, got an offer on it and...
I’m proud to announce that as of today we are adding homes and condos for sale from another MLS: Estately has just grown by an additional 10,000+ homes and condos. We cover every single major metropolitan area on the West Coast – and a lot of smaller areas in between. But after a short stay in California, it is apparently...
Compare Portland to San Francisco to the south or Olympia to the north. What is the address? Virtually every property outside of Oregon on Estately has addresses whereas Portland listings don’t. What the heck is #8096660? It’s the only unique identifier we are permitted to show: the MLS number. When we started Estately, we went to the MLS because we...