patrick.net

well shoot!

Strange thing is I just discovered last week that Google Japan had live real estate listings.

I was hoping google would take out the REIC but I guess it's a tough biz to try to ruin.

Yeah I used to few times last year and lost track of it.

they didn't want to get into that sleazy industry. I think they simply outsourced it to loopnet now, if i do a search for it thats where it takes me.

"In part due to low usage"

Um I beat they mean "due to no buyers," that could directly tie back to them.
It got used plenty. What I liked is it aggregated old and new MLS listings on a location. You could see a price history just by the older and newer postlets showing side by side.

Tenouncetrout says

“In part due to low usage”

Or forced to be didnt like what the public had access to.

Some just want transparency of any kind.

i used it plenty.

used it plenty. I read a piece about some lawsuits against them. Hard to classify all they are doing as search pointers when its really information and the informatino is owned by others.
It was very good but probably not in the way the pumpers want. It really drove home the price disconnect between what the foreclosures are selling for and what the realtors are hoping for.... maybe the gov even asked them to remove it as part of their pump-the-house-prices efforts?
Well, you probably also noticed zillow doesn't have the price pops like it used to. At least last time I looked. Used to be able to enter an address and see all the sales prices all around it.
Information is power. Control of information is power. Being able to recognize the removal of information is important too.

I do wish google kept that service, but for now I guess county assessor site is your next best friend.