Flying Over Tampa Neighborhoods With Google Earth

August 24th, 2007 categories: Tampa Real Estate, Tampa Condos, South Tampa, Tampa Waterfront Homes, Tips for Sellers, Tampa Realtor

The Internet has obviously changed the way Realtors market homes and has changed the way home buyers search for homes as well. Buyers today are hungry for information at their desktops. Buyers, and the agents who represent them, want multiple photos, video, virtual tours, floor plans and other pertinent property information available online at the left click of a mouse. Many listing agents and brokerages have realized this, and offer all these components to help sell their clients’ properties.

Google Earth, a free application from Google, is a great tool for real estate, and provides yet another excellent way to display a property to prospective homebuyers. If you have not already used it, Google Earth allows you to do a virtual “fly over” of any property and/or neighborhood. It’s like having your own private plane and pilot, soaring across the neighborhoods of Tampa and checking out the surrounding area of any properties you may be considering.

For instance, I can create a place mark on a condo listing that shows not only where that building is located, but I can also show where in the building the particular unit is located. It can be that precise. The satellite photos of the Tampa area are pretty darn good. I can also attach a description to the place mark with a link to a more detailed page about the property. I can then make the place mark public if I want to and share it with the Google Earth Community.

So not only is Google Earth a great tool for conducting property and neighborhood research, but it also serves as another online tool for marketing a property to any prospective buyers. I can save my place mark as a file and then attach it to any electronic marketing materials that we have. I can also e-mail the file to buyers who inquire about the property. When a user opens the file, Google Earth will open and fly directly into the property place mark. A click on the place mark icon opens the description box which also contains a link to get driving directions. Pretty cool stuff.

If you don’t already have Google Earth, you can download the free version here. If you already have Google Earth installed, or once you do, you can download and save this file, and then open it with Google Earth.

Google’s take on Google Earth:

Google Earth streams the world over wired and wireless networks enabling users to virtually go anywhere on the planet and see places in photographic detail. This is not like any map you have ever seen. This is a 3D model of the real world, based on real satellite images combined with maps, guides to restaurants, hotels, entertainment, businesses and more. You can zoom from space to street level instantly and then pan or jump from place to place, city to city, even country to country.Get Google Earth. Put the world in perspective.

http://earth.google.com)

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