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[...] prospective buyers more information about their communities, while another site, StreetAdvisors, is introducing more tools to deliver the same thing. These have the potential to be significant, since real estate agents are limited legally in what [...]

By: Elay Cohen

Elay Cohen — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:57:55 +0000

Have you ever seen http://www.zillow.com, this site is pretty cool as it benchmarks values of homes and offers a home “zestimate.” I just bought and sold a place and they 100% accurate. I think zillow plus the enhanced features of street advisor has something very compelling and fresh for the real estate industry.

By: Ah Yer!

Ah Yer! — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:41:03 +0000

This is the first startup in the real estate industry that makes any sense, and that makes good use of applied map technology. It is unfortunate for StreetAdvisor that their interface designs seems to have been inspired by the useless other real estate startups, but, other than that, a fantastic site. I think StreetAdvisor is also the first site in the real estate sector to successfully plug into Web 2.0.

Nick

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:01:08 +0000

@Zoli Erdos: the white house search worked for me. did u spell Pennsylvania wrong?

edit: doh! adam beat me to it with a link.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:45:34 +0000

I think I like Zillow better.

By: Adam Spencer

Adam Spencer — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:47:34 +0000

Hi Chris,

We believe it will lead to people being able to make better informed decisions about where they would like to live. Remember a lot of the content on StreetAdvisor is information…not negative….not positive. It is just information, and people have different preferences and look at the information in different ways. eg some people like really active and busy streets, others don’t.

Adam.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:37:21 +0000

So this will either lead to lying about how great your neighborhood is, or lowering your property value?

By: Adam Spencer

Adam Spencer — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:15:47 +0000

Renee: this is exactly the kind of information we are trying to unlock! Some of the reviews and conversations to date have been very exciting for us as people are using StreetAdvisor as a tool to research were to live. We do encourage people to contribute to the site and review their street…after it is 100% free, and helps everyone!!

By: Renee

Renee — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:48:44 +0000

I would have loved to use something like this when buying – if I’d known my neighbor was a total gearhead working on cars all day and setting off alarms in the middle of the night, I would have thought thrice.

By: Adam Spencer

Adam Spencer — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:44:06 +0000

Hi guys,

Amy: we encourage conversation on StreetAdvisor as it is a 100% user generated content site. Ultimately people are responsible for their contributions, and we do have a strict terms of use policy surrounding abuse of the system. StreetAdvisor is bringing people’s opinions to the forefront about where they live, and we think that is a great thing.

Juessica: Partnerships are in the works…Stay tuned And we also just launched our StreetAdvisor Billboards program which is our custom built advertising platform.

Zoli: Ultimately if you can’t find a street (on very rare occasions), you can click on it on the map interface and it will take you to your street’s page. We have reverse Geo-coding built into the site! But thanks for the user feedback, ill get the dev guys to check it out

Here is the link:

http://www.stre...ew/default.aspx

ENJOY!!

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:11:45 +0000

This could be quite useful. I gave it a quick test, but I suppose my test address was in a “bad neighborhood”, so it did not find it:
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC

By: ReCrunch

ReCrunch — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:59:20 +0000

StreetAdvisor launches new services, drops common sense…

[TC] StreetAdvisor Launches New Services:
StreetAdvisor will today launch a range of new upgrades that will give homeowners, renters, and buyers a more complete picture of where they could live. The new StreetAdvisor provides a real-life “inside…

By: Blog.Lejer.Ro - Bloggers Heaven

Blog.Lejer.Ro - Bloggers Heaven — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:59:17 +0000

StreetAdvisor offers coverage offers coverage for the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia….

Do you know what’s StreetAdvisor? A website from where you can see your neighborhood and places from all over the world (a future tool of course, for now only US, UK, Canada and Austria have coverage).
It’s a must visit site, for …

By: Jessica Mah

Jessica Mah — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:27:03 +0000

Interesting… any partnerships with like minded web 2.0 companies (trulia, yelp, etc…) ?

Can’t help but to ask about your plans for monetization.

By: Amy Wilsch

Amy Wilsch — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:19:09 +0000

hi Adam, how about liability if I want to say how god-awful my neighbors are to live next to??? that’s pretty street level

By: Adam Spencer

Adam Spencer — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:41:02 +0000

Hi guys,

At StreetAdvisor our long term goal is provide people with information about what it is like to live in a particular street. With these new features, we extend beyond that to provide people with the information about what it is like to live ANYWHERE, whether that be the street level, city level, state level etc.

The chicken and egg problem is something that all websites must go through. Rest assured though we understand that it’s going to take a while to reach our ultimate goal. Fortunately for everyone, StreetAdvisor isn’t going to disappear anytime soon

In regards to your comments:

jj: I urge you to use the site and discover some of the new features on the site. Our new local expert program rewards you for your expert knowledge with exposure, and very soon…PRIZES!!

Simon: You’re spot on! Being able to find a suitable street\area to live in is exactly what StreetAdvisor is all about. CONGRATS on getting married soon as well, best of luck!

Jason: Generating content is king for us, but as they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day. All sites take time, and StreetAdvisor is definitely here for the LONG TERM. We do have a number of partnership in the works at the moment, and we have a large number of sponsorships for conferences planned over the next 12-24 months. For consumers, our local expert program offers incentive in itself, and as I have previously said, we are going to offer up some pretty special prizes surrounding the program. Stay tuned!!

FrostFireBuzz: Interesting you mention real estate, we are in fact sponsoring and demoing at the Real Estate Connect SF 2007 conference here in San Francisco. If you are in town, come check us out!

Richard: Absolutely, this release has some pretty nice features for the Real Estate crowd. We understand real estate agents have a lot of local untapped knowledge, and with these new features, we are hoping to provide incentives to help build even further the StreetAdvisor community.

Keep the comments coming guys!!

Adam Spencer
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
StreetAdvisor

By: Richard Miller

Richard Miller — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:24:26 +0000

This is good for the real estate business. The next step could be the implementation of community features.

By: lidiving

lidiving — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:08:09 +0000

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By: Tad

Tad — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:02:59 +0000

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Thanks for adding this same insight to so many topics. Spamming is wrong. Won’t you think of the children?

By: iMAK_Design

iMAK_Design — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:01:24 +0000

I want to see this used for more of a favorites shopping-spree device on a global scale. I can see something like this being the catalyst for people who want to shop all over the world from a map and then have these places saved as favorites. I see this really being the tool to bring the e-commerce sites to the brick and mortar retail shops.
I got crazy ideas for this baby!!

By: BeingParents

BeingParents — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:21:11 +0000

This is great product that will enhance the experience of purchasing a home.
Buyers want all the statistics and local details and this product give it to them.

By: Frostfirebuzz.com

Frostfirebuzz.com — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:47:24 +0000

The Compete figures for Streetadvisor can be seen here:

http://frostfir...ild-any-traffic

They need to spend the money to reach critical mass or sell the site to a real estate company.

They can’s go on like they are with little data and few users.

Chris @ frostfirebuzz.com

By: Dennis Bjørn Petersen

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:31:35 +0000

*Ahem* I think Denmark is featured as well. Courtesy of yours truly

By: SUBHASH

SUBHASH — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:18:27 +0000

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