Google Property Portal Edges Closer. Is your Estate Agency Software Ready?

20/11/2009

Google property portal offering has been quietly improving ever since we first offered a Google Base feed from PropertyADD back in July 2009.

The latest blog posting from Google Australia announces that they are now integrating their property listings with Google Maps search results - rather than forcing visitors to use the 'Real Estate' filter hidden away under the 'More' button.

How much longer before the listings start appearing in normal Google searches too we wonder?



Read the blog article from Google here.

Take a look at the promo video Google put together for their Australian launch:



Make no mistake, sooner or later Google intends to become a big player in the UK too. Your estate agency software should already be capable of feeding your properties to Google to make sure your business is ready to take advantage.

2009 was the year that Zoopla shook up the UK property portal world more than ever. Will 2010 see Google turn it up a notch?

Call us today on 0845 399 2394 to discuss switching your agency to PropertyADD.

Update: 03/12/2009 - There's lots of rumblings in the press today and the rumour is that we can expect Google's property portal to launch in the UK during Q1 2010.

Daily Telegraph
FT
Daily Mail

Rightmove's share price initially dropped almost 10% on the news.

Reuters

Update: 16/06/2010 - Google have finally released their property map search in the UK!