Oh, now this is cool… Web 2.0 applied to property searching.

Posted in IT, On the Intertron by Will on September 22, 2006.

Paul Stovell’s blog linked to this site: Spyk.

You’ll need to use Internet Explorer though, since it doesn’t support Firefox properly (I havn’t tried Opera yet).

Basicly its a web two-point-oh + Virtual Earth applied to Property Searching (Rent/Buy) for Australia.

I tried it in a bunch of different places in Australia, and it worked, so it’s obviously linked to a few nation wide databases (not just a single agency either, I saw domain and realestate.com.au listed, not sure about others).

Point, hover and it shows you pictures (if available), and some other details — apply some filters (Property Type, Price Range, Bedrooms, Bathrooms), great, it works. Very nice, very fast… Very very cool.

The only bug is Australian Postcodes aren’t recognised all the time - sometimes it takes you off to random parts of the US, other times it works fine (it might be a distance issue? i.e try within 100KM, else go global). That’s probably a Virtual Earth issue though.