mynewplace.com Teams with Walk Score
January 15, 2010 by Alice Allan · 2 Comments
US rental apartments portal mynewplace.com has been working with Walk Score to create its new co-branded Walkable Apartments widget.
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WalkScore Releases iPhone App
August 11, 2009 by Emma Sorensen · Leave a Comment
Not to be outdone by the many property portals releasing iPhone Apps, Walk Score have released one of their own.
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Property Search by Transit Times
March 16, 2009 by Emma Sorensen · Leave a Comment
US based civic software company Front Seat, has added an innovative new search function to its already impressive Walk Score application.
The new Transit Time Maps will allow users to search a location’s transit time. This in turn opens the door for property search via commuting time.
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Walk Scores Live on zillow.com
February 25, 2009 by Emma Sorensen · 2 Comments
Earlier this year propertyportalwatch.com reported on a cool Walk Score functionality that several US portals were planning to introduce to their websites.
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fizber.com Introduces Drive Scores
January 19, 2009 by Emma Sorensen · Leave a Comment
Last week propertyportalwatch.com reported on the increasing popularity of Walk Score, which determines the walkability of any US address. This week we’ve had wind of another scoring system, this time for cars – a Drive Score.
US For Sale By Owner (FSBO) portal fizber.com has added Drive Score to their home listings. Similar to Walk Score, Drive Score shows a map of what establishments are in a property’s neighborhood and calculates a Drive Score based on the number of places within a convenient driving distance. The greater number of businesses nearby, the higher the Drive Score. This option will enable home buyers make searches with much more confidence.
Walk Score might be more environmentally friendly, and popular in high density cities, but not all homes are located in an area where the local amenities are within walking distance. Antony Fizber, CEO of Fizber.com, says that affordable homes in more secluded – and yet still desirable – areas were being overlooked.
“The fact is, some homes are simply located in an area where restaurants, libraries, grocery stores, hospitals and other businesses are easier to get to by car,” says Mr. Fizber. “Less than a mile may be a comfortable walk for a New Yorker, but for a Los Angeles resident, they may have to cross a freeway on foot in that mile, which is not convenient at all. With Drive Score, buyers can see how close establishments are by car…and more than a mile away can still be a simple five or ten minute drive. It is really very important for home buyers to be aware of nearby infrastructure to make their choice. I assume that there aren’t many people who would like to live near airport or railway taking into consideration the noise produced. Meanwhile these homes might be pretty interesting for people who travel a lot as they will definitely save money on getting to the airport or railway station.”
Drive Score also shows hospitals, gas stations, airports, train stations and a variety of shopping stores located within a particular neighborhood. Directions are available by clicking on any icon shown on the Google map. Drive Scores are included on every home listing page. When making a search, homebuyers can also switch off Drive Score parameters they don’t need, so they will get Drive Score results adjusted to their requirements.
Drive Score seems to be the simply the latest in a long line of neighbourhood applications.
Walk Score Added to US Property Searches
January 12, 2009 by Emma Sorensen · 4 Comments
The economy, health and the environment are top of most people’s list of concerns, and what better way to save money while improving your health and the environment than by walking?
Last week at Inman Real Estate Connect in New York it was revealed that a Walk Score rating system was being added to over 85 million property listings, across several portals and real estate search engines in the US.
Walk Score is a project by Front Seat who describe themselves as “a civic software company and incubator”. They specialise in software that connects people to the places we live, the resources we consume, and our communities.
Walk Score promotes the car free lifestyle by providing a personalised walkability rating for any address. Within one month of the programme’s July 2007 launch, over 1 million addresses were scored.
It works by calculating the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. This produces a ranking out of 100, ranging from 0-24 which is a rather dire ‘car dependent’ location to a magnificent 90-100, which is classed as a ‘Walkers’ Paradise’.
The announcement revealed some new big name partnerships for Walk Score with Zillow.com, ZipRealty.com, Postlets.com, REcolorado.com, ColoProperty.com, and others, who will now show Walk Score on all their listings using Walk Score Real Estate Services.
The company says: “Homebuyers rank proximity to daily conveniences as one of the two most important factors in choosing a neighborhood—more important than schools and property taxes”.
It’s certainly one of the coolest in a long list of neighbourhood applications that are now available.
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