Buying a Home in Salt Lake City, UT

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How Street View Helps Homebuyers in Salt Lake City!

Salt Lake City is one of a handful of cities that has recently been added as a Google StreetView City!

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You are either really excited about this or really freaked out about it, but the bottom line is that this is good news for homebuyers.

Listing agents tend to take pictures from angles that conveniently leave things out like huge power lines in front of the house, substations or water treatment facilities next door, or avoid showing you that the home is on one of the busiest roads in town. (Among countless other things)

Now, from the convenience of your home or office, you can "drive" through the neighborhood and eliminate homes from your list that have these types of problems that otherwise may only become obvious by actually driving up to the property.

Another benefit is that you can now look at those homes where the agent was too lazy to take a picture (or purposefully didn't take a picture) of the exterior of the home!

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4 comments • Benjamin Clark - Exclusive BUYER'S AGENT - Certified Negotiation Expert - SLC, UT • February 13 2008 01:08PM

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Ben,

The street view in very cool.  Have you found that your buyers use it? Do you use it in setting up appointments or researching the home? Even sometimes?

Would the net effect be to decrease the number of homes a buyer physically goes to see or increase them or neither?

 

Posted by Paul Howard, Broker, NJHomeBuyer.com Realty 856-488-8444 over 4 years ago
Paul - To my knowlege, Salt Lake just got online with the StreetView a few days ago. I can tell you that they took the pictures sometime around September-October 2007 though. (At least in my area). I will use it myself and I imagine clients will start to use it too, especially when there are no photos for a property at all or they want to "scout out" the neighborhood.
Posted by Benjamin Clark - Exclusive BUYER'S AGENT - Certified Negotiation Expert - SLC, UT (Homebuyer Representation, Inc.) over 4 years ago

I suggest to try as well StreetView on the website of Fizber to explore city neighborhoods. It feels as if you're walking down the street:)!

Posted by Nike almost 4 years ago

Yes!! Street View is a good idea!!! I'd recommend you to look through another resource. My favourite  is  Street View service on www.Fizber.com.

Posted by Mishel almost 4 years ago

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