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Real Estate and Rentals now in Google Maps

2 pointsby sneweover 15 years ago

2 comments

chris123over 15 years ago
They are also getting into the mortgage game, it looks like. See this screenshot: <a href="http://twitpic.com/nrfws" rel="nofollow">http://twitpic.com/nrfws</a> (or is that old news).<p>Lots of money in everything having to do with real estate. Commissions are too high, at least in high-cost areas. The industry is ripe for disruption. It has been fighting against it ever since the Internet took flight. Even been accused of collusion, black balling, and other tactics to maintain the standard 6% commission. Same thing that Wall Street did. A company or agent breaks ranks and competes on price and they are shunned.
sneweover 15 years ago
They seem to scrape a lot of rental sites, not including Craigslist.