Real Estate Tools for Finding a Home in the Nabe

If you're looking to buy a place in the neighborhood and are relying on Craigslist, the Times classifieds, or a real estate broker, there are a couple of internet tools you might want to try instead: namely, Google Maps' Real Estate and Trulia.  The two have slight differences. Trulia shows a few extra properties, such as foreclosures and homes in contract.  Trulia shows, for instance, that 136 Hawthorne Street, which we blogged about a while back, is currently in contract, whereas Google has already removed the offering. But both sites make it easy to scan current offerings quickly (if that's the sort of thing you're into).

Comments

[Bob Marvin]

The Google listing is good for some laughs, especially this "listing" for a suburban-style house in the middle of Prospect Park.

It would be a great buy at $139,900, if it actually existed.

[Bob Marvin]

My "link" doesn't show the actual listing; it's the one from "Hotpads" on "Hill Dr, Brooklyn". Google's Map shows it as being in Prospect Park (On Hill Drive, one of the two long-closed transverse roads off the Park Drive.

[Seth]

Bob, there is also this lovely 4 bedroom located on Governor's Island (which according to Google is now part of Brooklyn)

http://tiny.cc/PzlnK

[Hal]

i'd love to live in the middle of prospect park!

i live on the same block of hawthorne as the house in contract. beautiful house, and i'm sad to see the current owners go. they're terrific neighbors. i heard the new owners are practically teen agers. how do these people do it? i guess daddy has a big bank account!