StreetAdvisor Blog

StreetAdvisor launches “What the Locals Think” widget.

Over the past 12 months we’ve had many real estate professionals wanting to add StreetAdvisor’s reviews and ranking data on their own websites. We'll now you can!

The “What the Locals Think” widget adds value to your web site in so many ways!

1. Show-off interesting hyperlocal review and rating data about your neighborhood, city or town.
2. Engage your site visitors – people can write and read local reviews.
3. Adds credibility to your Local Expert status in your neighborhood.
4. It's free! 

Get the widget now at www.streetadvisor.com/widgets

   

Great Hyperlocal content for your blog - you can use the "What The Locals Think" widget in so many ways and in a variety of custom sizes.

Add a Neighborhood guide to your sidebar:

 Add Street Level reviews and ratings to your property listing pages:

Need some more inspiration? Here's some websites with the widget in action:

www.bostonconnect.com
www.rsbapts.com
www.getproperty.com

Need assistance getting the "What The Locals Think" widget on your site? 

We've made it real simple to add the widget yourself from www.streetadvisor.com/widget but if you need any further assistance getting started, email us at support@streetadvisor.com, we're happy to guide you through the process.

StreetAdvisor sponsors Inman Connect New York City 2010 conference

StreetAdvisor was proud to yet again be a Silver Sponsor of the Inman Connect conference in New York City, Jan 13-15 2010. 

This is the third year we have been a sponsor and our most successful conference to date. In addition to personally meeting over 500 people from within the US Real Estate market, we were extremely delighted with the response to our latest offerings including the "What the Locals Think" widget and upcoming API.

 

And as usual, our giveaways were extremely popular with a Macbook Pro and High definition video cameras up for grabs. 

This years winners were:

1. Brian Muench - President, BrianDavid Realtors (Macbook Pro winner)

 

2. Ray Schmitz from Corcoran Real Estate (Flip HD Cam Winner)

3. Silvio Bercovici from Prudential - Douglas Elliman Real Estate (Flip HD Cam Winner) 

 

4. Ruth Bader - Vice President, Prudential - Douglas Elliman Real Estate (Flip HD Cam winner)

Thanks to all for visiting us at Inman Connect, the real estate community has been incredibly supportive of StreetAdvisor and we are looking forward to seeing you all in San Francisco in August for Inman Connect SF 2010.

Jason Spencer

Co-Founder & Co-CEO StreetAdvisor.com

StreetAdvisor joins forces with realestate.com.au to bring you local voices!

We are very excited to announce that StreetAdvisor.com.au and Australia’s biggest real estate website, realestate.com.au, have partnered to launch a new community known as local voices.

Throughout Australia, StreetAdvisor will be rebranded as local voices becoming an integral part of the realestate.com.au website.

Whether you’re looking to buy or rent StreetAdvisor’s patented technology enables you to see how the locals rate the streets and suburbs that you are looking at, helping you find the perfect place to live.

So come in, get the inside word and share your views on your suburb by visiting realestate.com.au local voices - we want to hear your voice.

What does this mean for StreetAdvisor members?

Other than a new name, the main difference is more people to share and connect with! You will now be able to share your street reviews, photos, discussions and lists with over 5 million people that visit realestate.com.au every month. Your account and profile details are unchanged and the site will continue to be free.

Our goal has always been to help people learn more about their communities while helping others make better decisions about where they want to live. This partnership with realestate.com.au and the launch of local voices gives everyone a much greater opportunity to participate.

See you on local voices!

StreetView is now available in StreetAdvisor Canada

Google has just added StreetView to it's maps for Canada, and StreetAdvisor has added into its new improved scorecards. It's available now for Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Halifax, Calgary, Vancouver and nearby suburbs, with more areas to come soon. You can see how it looks in these two example StreetAdvisor scorecards.

Acadia Drive SE E Calgary, Calgary, Alberta (Street Rank in Calgary #3, Overall Score 80 / 100).

The Esplanade N, Pickering, Ontario (Street Rank in Pickering #1, Overall Score 59 / 100).

Browsing the Canadian StreetAdvisor site has become a lot more enjoyable. Come and see what your streets look like at StreetAdvisor.ca today.

StreetAdvisor introduces QuickRate - a new fast way to add reviews

If you're browsing through StreetAdvisor looking at streets in your neighborhood or city, and want to contribute, you have many options. You can write a review, or comment on an existing review. You can also write a guide or or post a topic to the forums. But if you don't have much to say, then it can be difficult to know where to start.

To make it easier to express a simple favorable or unfavorable opion about a street, neighborhood or city, StreetAdvisor has built a new kind of review - QuickRate. A QuickRate review allows StreetAdvisor community members to give a place a 1 to 5 star rating. It's a quick and simple way to add your opinion to StreetAdvisor.

To see it in action, we'll visit the Forest Glen neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois (Neighborhood Rank in Chicago #3, Overall Score 84 / 100). The scorecard shows the star rating of the neighborhood in the top left corner.

If you use the mouse to hover over the star rating, a pop-up appears that allows you to complete a QuickRate review or a traditional complete review. To complete a QuickRate review, click on the empty stars to set your rating.

Release the mouse over your preferred score and the QuickRate review is complete! It could not be more simple.

 

If you want to you can fill out some more information to write a complete review. It's up to you. QuickRate allows StreetAdvisor users to share more opinions about their favorite places. Try it for yourself today on StreetAdvisor.com.