Locally-based real estate search site Estately kicked their technology up another notch yesterday, with the addition of past home sales information to every listing, as well as the expansion into Chicago and Long Island, New York.
I’ve been consistently impressed with how much Estately founder Galen Ward has been able to do on a shoestring budget with a minimal staff. Especially with the new addition of past sales, Estately’s search technology has been keeping toe to toe with the larger, better-funded Redfin.
Since Redfin and Estately are (IMO) the top two real estate search websites in terms of technological feature sets, here’s a comparison chart of some of the features of each site, to visualize how they compare:
| Redfin | Estately | |
| Search by City, Neighborhood, Zip | X | X |
| Search raw land | X | |
| Keyword Search | X | |
| Aerial View, Street View | X | X |
| Bird’s Eye view | X | |
| Past Sales | X | X |
| Days on Market | X | X |
| Cumulative DOM | X | |
| Mapped Schools, Parks, Transit | X | |
| Similar Homes Nearby | X | X |
| Neighborhood Stats | X | X |
| Shareable Saved Properties List | X | |
| Share Notes on Properties | X |
One of the coolest features offered by Estately is probably the shareable saved properties list. Just like Redfin, you can save a list of favorites. But unlike Refin, Estately allows you to share your favorites list with friends, or make the entire list public. For example, here’s mine.
Even more nifty is the ability to share your notes on listings with anyone on your Estately “friends list.” If anyone is interested in sharing notes and favorites with me and other Seattle Bubble readers, you can add Seattle Bubble as a friend here. Once we build up a few friends, you can click on “Other’s Properties” an “Other’s Notes” to see what everyone else is saving and sharing.