Rain City Guide

RCG Home Seach is now Powered by Estately!  

RCG Flashback to gHomes 
Links from the Video:

Sellsius: Linkbait Flashback
gHomes — Seattle Area MLS on Google Maps

We just released Estately True Areas which lets people search “beyond the box” and inside the neighborhood, city, or zip code they’re interested in. The area outline and listings in the area are the only results displayed on the map. You can also use it to search for homes within a mile or two from [...]

About 13 months ago, John L. Scott & Real Tech introduced what they brand High Definition maps for their map based MLS search. Well today, they’ve gone from 720p to 1080p with the introduction of the “Neighborhood Wizard“.

With the Neighborhood Wizard, you draw a polygon like you would in a drawing program. Then when you’ve [...]

Maplets now let you search for real estate via the traditional Google maps interface. More from Google on the subject. (Get your listings into Google Base to be included). Joel has wondered aloud about Google Real Estate in the past.
If you’re a developer, you can build your own maplet on Google maps, but you’re giving [...]

Really, in the world of the web, slow speed kills. And most people only think about the length of time it takes a website to load when it is taking eons to show up. For static sites, meeting the magic four second page load time isn’t too hard, but for sites with lots of “dynamic [...]

It appears that Rain City Guide has gone to bananas…
The following photo baffled me when I first saw it.
How to explain someone linking to Rain City Guide with this photo?

With my curiosity peeked, I noticed that Ed Kohler posted the photo from his Flickr account… Hmm… Who’s Ed Kohler?
Ed [...]

As of midnight last night, ShackPrices.com is live. We have a post up on the ShackBlog about what you’ll find on our new site, but I’ll summarize it for our readers here:
What is ShackPrices?
ShackPrices.com is a snappy Google maps-based real estate search site that makes finding a home better by augmenting each real estate listing [...]

Where to invest next in Seattle/Eastside neighborhoods? I’ve been thinking about the list Seattle Metropolitan Magazine came up in April (see below). With gas prices up, rapid transit going in, I think the next hot spots will be along those rapid transit routes like what happened in San Francisco and Portland.
Here are 2 lists, one [...]

Interestingly, the NWMLS is now allowing agents to list sold data on real estate websites.
Along these lines, Shelley Rossi, the Director of Public Relations for John L. Scott, emailed to let me know that John L. Scott added a comparable market analysis tool to their home search Robbie discussed last week…
There are two [...]