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vode.com.au Listings are now appearing in the Suburb View Search Results.

Andrew from pennisi.com.au contacted me to let me know that 2 of his Properties were sold to people who used Suburb View.

This is great to see people using this site to search for their new home. If any other agents want their listings linked directly from Suburb View, please feel free to contact me via the Contact Form.

Suburb View is a Real Estate search engine that links directly to Real Estate Properties. The links are found on the Map, Google Earth, and also in the RSS Feeds. It is free for agents to have their properties listed on Suburb View.

-Mark

It is a great achievement to make this list, as I basically made this site to help look for my first home. The main focus is making searching real estate listings as easy as possible and to filter out the properties I am not interested in.

Since launching this web site in 2006, I have also released http://www.oldlistings.com.au to give me a better historial view of the Older Listings, and I have just recently created a New Zealand version at http://www.suburbview.co.nz

It is great to hear the feedback from my visitors on how I can improve the web site. So I hope you get as much use of my web sites as I do.

For further information on the BRW Top 100 Web 2.0 Applications you can find it here :
http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2008/06/top_100_web_20.html
http://www.futureexploration.net/topweb2apps/list.html

-Mark

Suburb View is now searching another For Sale By Owner site : http://www.privatepoint.com.au

www.suburbview.co.nz

What was meant to be a small side project to work on during the Easter break, I have now managed to create a New Zealand version of Suburb View

I am looking at searching more sites, and currently search over 10 Real Estate Sites. So if your favourite New Zealand site is not being searched, please let me know.

Suburb View New Zealand Google Earth Example

For more information on Google Earth and Download

Using Suburb View Google Earth Options

I hope this helps some New Zealand First Home Buyers, and if you find any mistakes Contact Me
-Mark

A popular request from visitors at http://www.oldlistings.com.au is the ability to search within the results. An example is Melbourne.

1) Melbourne currently has over 1800 old property listings
2) So this means that there are 19 pages to view all the property listings.
3) I have now introduced a street filter for the Suburb Results
4) Some streets are excluded from the filtered results, so all you need to do is select the street you are interested to view the Old Property Results.

So be sure to visit Old Listings and try out the new street filters.

-Mark

For all those who are not using Google Earth to view the property listings from Suburb View, you might be interested in the latest version of Google Earth. Some of the features include :

Photo-realistic Buildings With Google Earth 4.3, see 3D buildings faster and in more cities than ever before. Now you can access hundreds of new buildings from the world's cities, including San Francisco, Boston, Orlando, Munich, Zurich, and dozens more. Swoop Navigation Fly seamlessly through the landscape with new navigation controls. Swoop from outer space to street level and leap from one building top to another. Use the look joystick to view buildings as if you were standing right in front of them. Light and Shadow With the new Sunlight feature, you can watch the sunrise and sunset from anywhere. Move the time slider to watch dusk, dawn and shadows move across the Earth. Street View Street View, available in Google Maps, is now in Google Earth! Fly into panoramic images of select cities and take a 360 degree tour.

Download Google Earth

Download Google Earth - it is free! Simply follow this link:


Make sure you select Google Earth to be added to the Google Pack. This will guide you through the installation process. The programs are free and available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Over at http://startups.sharmavishal.com/ held the Australian Startups Carnival, March 3-17, 2008
Background :

Australian Startups Carnival - 2008 is an initiative by VS Consulting Group. This online (web based) 
carnival is all about learning new ventures started/surfaced in IT, Telecoms, Green Tech, Media, Web2.0/Social 
Networking in last couple of years. Vishal covered the state of web2.0 startups in 2006 for Readwriteweb. 
But since then lot of water has gone under. We are now expanding our coverage, as some great ideas 
are being put together and executed. We intend to discover people behind these startups, their motivations, 
how future looks from their perspective, what technologies are being used, what market segments they are 
targeting, their mistakes, their advise and more.

You can read my interview here : http://startups.sharmavishal.com/2008/03/suburb-view.html

The feedback from participants here : http://startups.sharmavishal.com/2008/03/feedback-for-participants.html

And the results here : http://startups.sharmavishal.com/2008/03/results.html

There have been a lot of small changes to the site this month, these include:

• New Listings are now displaying NEW text
• Searching more Australian Real Estate web sites, and now displaying graphical Beds / Baths / Cars on Google Maps
• Search Results on the right of the map now includes Beds / Baths / Cars
• More information from http://www.homehound.com.au

It's great to have access to more information from http://www.homehound.com.au property listings, as this now means images are being displayed on the site.

If any Agents or 'For sale by owner' site wants to have their listings on Suburb View, please feel free to contact me to have their listings added.

-Mark

Suburb View is now searching the For Sale By Owner site : http://www.propertynow.com.au

With images linking directly to the site, it introduces a new Category of Property listings where you can filter the results to either hide of view these listings. Hopefully more FSBO sites contact me to have their listings added here.