Bring Your Properties to Life
Better connect with your customers by using the Bing Maps Platform to help clients visualize your listings with rich imagery showing property and neighborhood details. Add deep value by integrating other key data, including zoning information, property lines, and school districts.
Foreclosure.com
Foreclosure.com wanted to make it even easier for its 6.5 million monthly visitors to search its 1.8 million residential distressed property listings. By integrating the Bing Maps Platform on its site, the company offers users a simpler interface, a more compelling user experience, and advanced mapping features.
Teranet
Teranet provides property information services to organizations in Ontario. The company used the Bing Maps Platform to integrate its land ownership data with mapping functionality. Now, users have visual references for every data point and can quickly navigate between related datasets and find information more easily.
Coldwell Banker
Coldwell Banker sought to improve the home search mapping capabilities on its Web site--to present properties in the context of neighborhoods, and to make its mapping more intuitive. The company’s Bing Maps application enables buyers to see properties in the context of nearby schools, parks, and churches. The maps allow users to zoom, pan, and see different views seamlessly.
Coldwell Banker Commercial
Coldwell Banker Commercial wanted to provide its affiliates with an innovative online mapping tool. It developed an award-winning Web site based on Bing Maps and Microsoft MapPoint Web Service, which uses the dynamic bird's eye1 view of Bing Maps to give brokers and affiliates a competitive advantage.
NovaLoca
Web-based real estate company NovaLoca helps prospective buyers find office space quickly and easily. On a site created using Bing Maps, viewers can find property details and local area information for commercial properties. In just one year, 500 companies have registered properties on the site.
CenterPoint
Industrial real-estate developer CenterPoint needed a way to quickly and accurately assess both properties it owns and potential acquisitions. The company used Bing Maps, which enables it to plot properties on a map and overlay the images with data from several sources. This data visualization has increased productivity and enhanced decision making, boosting CenterPoint’s business growth.
Listingbook
Fidelity National Real Estate wanted the fastest possible time to market for a consumer-oriented Web site for the residential real estate market. The result, www.listingbook.com, went into production in just four months using Bing Maps, and delivers customized content 10 times faster than with older technologies. The site also features rich mapping imagery overlaid with data and animation.
John L. Scott
John L. Scott strives to continually provide a better online experience through detailed, robust information for its properties in the Pacific Northwest. The company recently deployed Bing Maps and its three-dimensional aerial views and interactive technology onto its site. The new experiential way to see homes from a 45-degree view boosted online visits to their highest levels ever.
LoopNet
LoopNet is an online commercial real estate marketplace with some of the industry's highest numbers for property listings, traffic, and market coverage. LoopNet chose the Bing Maps Platform for high resolution satellite, bird’s eye, and aerial imagery, and interactive mapping. LoopNet reports a 33 percent increase in the number of properties viewed per day using the enhanced site.
Sperry Van Ness
Sperry Van Ness, a fast-growing U.S. commercial real estate firm, uses Bing Maps in its online tracking system so that agents can search for properties more quickly. It also incorporated the platform into an automated publishing solution that saves Sperry Van Ness's users an estimated total of 75,000 hours a year in creating brochures and property Web sites.
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What Real Estate Companies Can Do with Bing Maps
Strengthen Customer Connections
- Engage customers with bird’s eye1 and hybrid views to provide property details as well as surrounding amenities, such as banks and schools.
- Rely on more geocoding data than in any other mapping solution—covering more than 85 million addresses in the U.S. alone.
Improve Business Insight
- Track client behaviors by visualizing demographic statistics to help predict areas of growth.
- Gain insight by viewing layers of data on a map, such as housing starts and mortgage trends.
Grow Through Innovation
- Deliver new online offerings that drive your customers from the Web to your properties as well as to your branches.
- Create better connections with your global customers with localized maps in several languages.
1. Available in many metropolitan areas. Not available for government customers.
