Here’s an example: http://www.home2market.com/20759

As a realtor in Florida, I am only interested in my region and only have access to MLS data in my region. Our MLS data partnership is with MarketLinx/First American Corp., the largest in the country and Blue Dasher is their integrated street-level imagery provider across the country. It is a business solution we have within MLXchange (if you know what that is) and is not open to the public. It would be impossible for me, you or anyone to gain access to properties in their other regions or to use Blue Dasher.

Lighten up Gordon, it’s the holidays.

Best regards,

Mark

Here is a note for everyone, but mostly Dick Rosen who wrote above on this blog. Take one of your listed properties: 3927 Upton Ave N Minneapolis MN 55412, and try to use Street View.

It will not function because there is no coverage. Again, I would prefer to pay a few dollars each month with Blue Dasher and have a service I can count on.

Regards to all,

Mark

Have a great Thanksgiving,

Mark

The google street level image, if available, is just that. One image. It doesn’t drive a neighborhood. It’s not much different than the street picture often taken by a realtor and uploaded, only the google quality is not as good as our still photos.

The process for imbedding a Google street view link into a document or listing is very cumbersome. Blue Dasher is already imbedded into the MLS. All the work is done for the realtor. The functionality as a tool for the realtor is far greater than one link to a Google street view. We have one button to touch in order to drive all the surrounding neighborhood and the ability to share this drive with customers.

Listing agents advertise their listings with a virtual “For Sale” sign seen by all who navigate in the neighborhood and again, we get a detailed reports showing the amount of activity each advertisement receives.

Overall, the ease of the application, the functionality of the Dasher Virtual Drive and the analytic reports provided by Blue Dasher make it a far superior tool for real estate professionals.

The Dasher Virtual Drive looks like an interesting alternative. But, you can’t beat “free” which is what Google street view is. However, perhaps once the service is more established and has a wider coverage area in the US, I’ll do a comparison.

Coverage of all public streets within a city/county

Exact address match – from an entered address, click on a map, or a multiple listing number we or our customers get placed exactly at the front door of that selected property

Many photos for the same address, providing multiple vantage points and the ability to “drive by” a selected property

Virtual Drive By (Streets and Neighborhood Tours) –video like behind the wheel of a car looking in several directions

Route with automatic Virtual Drive

Imagery Maintenance Program (proactive and reactive) – they keep our images refreshed and can react immediately to a home owners or listing agents needs

Advertising of our Listings – providing location based advertising and several additional ways to display advertising within each frame – like our virtual “For Sale” signs

Also, Blue Dasher invented its own viewer technology and is able to provide us with the functions listed above as well as not being restricted by the limitations and slowness of Adobe Flash

Its a cool technology we are having fun with and selling more homes with while spending less time in the car. Check it out.

Regards, Mark