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Today we are creating a new way for people to find a home: Estately Smart Schools. For people who want to live in a certain school area, Estately Smart Schools will help search only the homes for sale in any school’s attendance area. We think this is a dramatic improvement in the way people find a home. Until today, people had...
Today we are celebrating a 15% expansion in our geographic breadth: the greater Washington DC area. After waiting for over 1 million photos to download, today we are announcing that we now have over half a million homes listed for sale on Estately. And we are welcoming Washington, DC and Baltimore. Having spent some time there, we will also give...
I have admired Walk Score since they launched – it is one of those deceptively simple, super-clever products that just makes sense. Walk Score is opinionated technology with a mission. When we started Estately, it was with the premise that real estate is about more than beds, baths, price and square feet. We wanted a real estate search that would...
With our latest release, we are allowing consumers to collaborate with friends and family on their home search; every Estately account now comes with the ability to share saved properties, notes on properties, and saved searches with friends and family members and to solicit feedback from them! Here are some ways to use My Estately sharing: 1. You and your...
Where the heck did that “Nearby” tab go under Listing Details? I’ll tell you where: on the details page! All the same information is there: nearby schools, transit, parks, and places; however, you can now view where there nearby places are relative to the home you’re looking at right on the neighborhood overview map! If you’re not really in to...
Yes, it’s another feature improvement made to Estately! As you may or may not know, Seattle isn’t exactly known for its mass transit. The buses—or “road slugs,” as I sometimes call them—are good, but they’re no light rail. On our move south to Oregon, we knew we had to do something more take advantage of the many transit options available...