Google Earth and Google Maps have become part of every property investor’s toolkit, making it easy to find a property and view it from an aerial perspective. Google Street View now allows you to view properties from street level. For the investor, this will allow you to do a “desktop” viewing of the property and its surroundings – a massive time saver! To do this you will need to download Google maps and then click on the tiny camera icons on the street. This will automatically take you to the street view.
Largely due to the Soccer World Cup, Google has been quietly driving down almost every street in the S.A. Metropolitan areas for the past year or so, with a rooftop mounted 360 degree camera, photographing every single property. To see how amazing this is, try it on your own home!
Julie Taylor, communications manager for Google South Africa, said: “This is a first for Africa, and a really exciting development for South Africans, who can now explore their country in new ways, whether a local neighbourhood in the city or a scenic coastal route they’ve never seen.
Guy de la Porte Investment Properties has included Street View’s on all properties listed. To see an example of how this works, click here and then on “street view” on the side of the map box. By clicking on the arrows you can go up down the street viewing properties or rotate the view by 360 degrees, all at your leisure, from your armchair.
To save you time, we try and include photographs, maps, plans and brochures and full details for most of our properties listed on our website. We are adding and modifying properties every day to keep you updated. You can subscribe to have new listings emailed to you that fit your criteria for type, value or size. You have only been subscribed to our newsletter, so please update your subscription to fit your personal preferences, its quick and easy, just follow the link at the bottom of the email we sent you.
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