192.com launches photo and house price tools
- Added:
- Jun 30, 2005
The firm will also add shop front photos for around 80,000 retail businesses, integrated with further information on the nearest transport links; web address; the average price of a meal in a restaurant; and disabled access amongst other criteria.
Each record will also link to images of neighbouring shops, creating a virtual High Street.
Meanwhile
for local searches on residential information, Land Registry data now
details the price of all houses sold in England and Wales since March
2000.
This will be combined
with data from the BT directory enquiry database and the Electoral
Roll, allowing 192.com users to see who lives in a property, how long
they have lived there and who they live with, as well as what they paid
for the house.
In the site now employs aerial photography with a
resolution of 25 centimetres, giving consumers a bird’s eye view of
every house and commercial property listed on 192.com.
Alastair
Crawford, CEO and founder of 192.com, said: “The recent boom in
Local services is a sham, as people are not getting a true depiction of
what’s on offer in their area, nor is the information linked
intelligently to give people the richer results they require.”
“We
have a different perspective on Local than the big search engines,”
Crawford added. “We believe that a local search tool has to offer real
depth of information on the local area whether or not you’re looking
for people or businesses.”
The high resolution aerial
photography is already live on 192.com. Shop front photos and Land
Registry data will go live within two weeks.
