New Austin Home Search and Lifestyle Page
I have set up a new home search page that integrates loads of information into it. There is a tutorial when people first see it and if they watch the tutorial their home and lifestyle search will be highly improved.
So just what does this new tool do? It allows people to search for homes by map, by neighborhood, by zip code, by school district - you know, the standard stuff. More standard stuff like emailing a listing to a friend, saving searches to come back to later and saving listings as favorites.
But as they say on TV after midnight - wait, there's more!
Clicking on the lifestyle button opens a whole new world.
If a user then clicks Dining, a screen comes up that allows the user to select something like coffee shops. Then a little sliding bar comes up so the user can select how close or far from a particular area a coffee shop is and then all the coffee shops come up on the map.
What you see in the image above is a map of downtown Austin and surrounding neighborhoods. The user selected coffee shops within a 1/2 mile and they all display on the map and have a 1/2 mile blue circle around them. All the homes for sale show up as little house icons.
So this tool actually allows a user look at homes within a certain distance to things like a particular school, a place to shop and all other sorts of things.
Let's look at searching by school districts using the map below.
I clicked on the Places icon, then selected the school districts button. The search and lifestyle tool displayed the school district boundaries on the map. When I hovered over the blue border at the upper left, the name of the school district inside that area was displayed. Now I can search for or look at homes within the Leander ISD boundaries.
Anyway, I would encourage anyone reading this to spend a little time on this, especially if you are a fellow REALTOR. If you like what you see and want my thoughts after having used this for a while give me a call.
So go ahead, click to try my NEW Austin Homes and Lifestyle Search.