Real estate web site Zillow.com today added a number of new community features, opening up the site even further to user contributions. Chief among these additions are individual neighborhood pages in more than 130 U.S. cities (more than 6,500 neighborhoods in all). The pages are seeded with rich local demographic and real estate information, but are built for communities and neighbors to make their own. Anyone within a community has the ability to add photos, events, local news, engage in discussions and ask or answer questions about neighborhood real estate.
“Adding the ability for neighbors to meet, share information and learn about their local neighborhood is a natural next step for Zillow. We started with individual Web pages and Home Q&A for more than 70 million homes, and today we’re bringing the conversation out to the neighborhood level,” said Lloyd Frink, Zillow president. “In the offline world, conversations happen all the time around homes, neighborhoods and communities. With these additions, we’re adding the data, tools and a platform for these conversations to thrive online – and help people become smarter about real estate, for free, in the process.”
Originally posted on July 11, 2007 @ 8:30 am
StreetAdvisor.com is a new site that caters to anyone searching for the perfect street to live. It’s an online community to share and read reviews of what it like to live somewhere – right down to the street level.
Featured on CNN, the LA Times, and TechCrunch, StreetAdvisor is the essential guidebook to finding the right street, written by the people who have lived there, through words, pictures and video.
We need your help. In order to meet our goal of including every street in the U.S., we invite you to join online and write a review of a street where you live now, and if you’re up for it, where you used to live. Go outside. Take some pictures. Upload them to your street. Help us help those who want to know what it’s really like to live there.
Just go to http://www.streetadvisor.com and create a free account. Then go ahead and enter your street and start writing. Upload pics of your street and also click on the guidebook tab to offer additional insight that you may want to share about your neighborhood with your existing and future neighbors.
If you have any questions, please contact me at karyn [at] future-works [dot] com
It’s time to let the world know what you REALLY think about your street!
Thank you for your support,
The StreetAdvisor Team.