Google Rumoured to be Hiring Online Real Estate Sales People

Rumours emanating out of Sydney today indicate that Google is aggressively looking to hire a field sales team to target the Sydney real estate market. Sources said that Google had approached a number of sales people from domain.com.au in an effort to hire them as field sales people for the Google real estate initiative. Sources also believed that Google may be initially targeting the Inner West region of Sydney.
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Google Reveals Real Estate “Vision”

Since Google first began adding real estate listings to Google Maps in mid-2009, the world of online real estate has been monitoring the company’s every move. Each upgrade brought more speculation on how Google was planning to change things for property portals, real estate agents, and property hunters.

Now, we have a clearer idea of where Google is headed.
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rightmove.co.uk Adds Google Maps

rightmove.co.uk users are now able to view properties on a Google Map by clicking a link on each property’s detailed view page.
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Google Eyeing trulia.com?

Could Google be in talks to buy US real estate search engine trulia.com? That’s the report from All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher, which quotes “sources close to the situation”.
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propertyguru.com.sg Fastest Rising

Singaporean portal propertyguru.com.sg is having an exciting few months. After taking out the “Best International Property Portal” title at the 2009 CNBC International Residential Property Awards and launching a Singaporean edition of Malaysia’s Property Buyer magazine, it has now been named on Google’s 2009 Year-End Zeitgeist report for Singapore.
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Google’s Perspective at trulia.com, redfin.com

The Google Earth and Maps team have just announced a new type of mapping imagery available to developers through the Google Maps API: high resolution overhead imagery that shows both the rooftops and sides of buildings at a tilted angle.
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Google Real Estate in Europe – What is All the Fuss About? Lessons from Australia

The news yesterday that Google was “entering” the UK/European market sent the share prices of Rightmove and Seloger into a tailspin. The Seloger share price closed down 5.7% at €23.50 while the Rightmove share price was hammered a whopping 10.3% to 499.9p.

So let’s look at what happened. An article by the Financial Times (Dec 2 titled “Google set to enter UK property market”) seems to have set the cat amongst the pigeons. The article stated that Google is in talks with British estate agents and that “experts” say that an entry by them to the market could pose a serious threat to existing property websites. The article didn’t talk about what Google was going to do and Google didn’t comment. So there is really not much to go on. So the only guide we really have as to what Google may do in the UK and Europe is what they have done in Australia.
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Google Rumours Dent Rightmove Share Price

A Financial Times report on Google’s plans for online property search in the UK seems to have worried the market.
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jaap.nl Jumps Into Google Wave

When invitations for Google Wave began circulating in early October, the usual excitement that accompanies a new Google release was mixed with a degree of confusion. The name was intriguing, but the question remained: what exactly does it do?
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Google Maps Highlights Real Estate

Google Maps has announced changes to its real estate listings. Its real estate category is now more prominent, and rental listings have been added in the US. A new Comparison Ads tool has also been announced that is geared towards the mortgage market.
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