Properazzi is a property search engine which searches for houses which are available to purchase or to rent which uses the Google Maps API.
The site is quite clever; as well as having a search facility it allows you to click on a region on a Google Map and see the properties available. The site seems to have good coverage of all European countries besides Austria, Turkey and the former Eastern bloc.
A nice feature of the site is that you can zoom into any region of the map, choose a radius for your search and click and it shows you nearby properties from a variety of websites. The site also has a search tool where you may type in a location, minimum and maximum price and keywords.
It’s not perfect though. I was browsing around the North East of England and I saw a result for North London. I expect this is because any mash-up will have a bug of some sort. Annoyingly, when you select a property and are redirected to the estate agents you have a frame for Properazzi displayed at the top much like sites such as About do. Also, the site doesn’t seem to handle areas such as Cleveland well as they are no longer counties yet Properazzi still refers to them as counties.
I do think this is an amazing mash-up, though!
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