HousingMaps.com is a Web site that collects real estate listings from Craigslist and displays them graphically on a map, basically giving you a visual to look at houses for sale or rooms for rent in your area. I found this tool very useful on finding listings that are not in MLS and have less exposure.
I think it's a great tool that helps realtors finding the right home for their customers when they have exhausted all the MLS listings.
Trulia is another website that scrapes real estate sites to find listings and brings it all together on their site. Using an approach similar to Google maps, the properties are displayed on a map, and the searches can be narrowed down based on cities, address or zip codes.
I've been using Trulia to list my properties on it, and I found the tools on the website being very useful to me. There is one feature that I found being very interesting, Interactive Heat Map, which display the city areas with listings by showing different colors on the map, with the red color representing the area with the most properties for sale.
Trulia's biggest edge is its partnerships with real estate brokerage companies that allows the website to pull data from many sites in order to redisplay it on a map in an easy to digest and attractive user interface.
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