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Why Maps Matter for Real Estate

If we are to believe Greg Robertson, (Another nail in the coffin for map search?), the coffin is being hammered shut on real estate map search as I type because one of our competitors pulled their map prototype after a week … Continued

  |  Glossary, Maps, Real estate

From the mail: What does BOM mean?

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 … Continued

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Terrain on Google maps

You can now see the hills and valleys of America on Google maps. It’s not available for non-Google sites yet (including Estately). I love being able to see the direction of the valleys left after the retreat of the Cordilleran … Continued