The ShackPrices’ blog (run by RCG contributor Galen) just announced some slick new features for their site:
- Permalinks. Makes it possible to email/link to specific results
- Address Search. Easier to zoom into a specific property
- Condo Information. Not just homes anymore…
So what is ShackPrices? ShackPrices is a King County specific Home Price Evaluation site. Operating in true Web2.0 spirit, these guys have taken King County sold home data and mixed it with Google Maps to create a map-based home valuation tool. By focusing on the Seattle area, locals might find that ShackPrices is a more useful tool than the obvious huge white elephant in the room. It is also worth nothing that others have had online home valuation tools for a while (and we recently released our own!), so it is nice to see that Galen takes stuff in perspective:
So is this the future of real estate search? I sincerely doubt it. I believe that online real estate search is a sliver of what it could be today, let alone what it could be tomorrow. We’re in the “glorified book
The ShackPrices is very slow to me, but I really like the implementations. Good job! You might want to change the file name for your in-house tool, Dustin.. it sounds a little too h@rdcore ;)lol