Boston Condo Mapping

Boston has always been a difficult city to navigate, both by foot and vehicle. Many residents spend a couple of years before they have a comfort and general awareness of its streets and neighborhoods. It has its own unique flavor, something that sets it apart from all other U.S. cities. Bostonians will generally offer a clever smirk when it's likened to a European Capital rather then a State Capital. Buyers in the market for a Boston condo must have knowledge of the neighborhood they are searching, as well as the full array of potential properties in the area.
BostonCondoGroup.com originally set out to deliver a website that offered information on all condo developments in the city, as well as all condo properties listed on the MLS. With new developments popping up all over the city, some that are riding old neighborhoods back into favor, some that are re-establishing the waterfront, we soon realized that visitors needed a tool that would better help them find all that is available. As an example, many residents are often shocked when they realize just how many projects are going up on the border of Back Bay and the South End. They have heard the names of these new developments in local publications, but it's much more real when they walk by on the street and see the steel beams rising up into the sky. If BostonCondoGroup.com is going to deliver the city's most useful condo resource, we need to find a way to present this pertinent information.
Fulfilling this need for buyers, we have integrated Google maps with API technology into each of our condo building pages. "Condo Building Pages" offer a unique page for each individual condo development. Here we present information about that development, such as number of units and available amenities, we show interior and exterior pictures, and we show a large map the pinpoints the position of the building within the city. Many times visitors find these pages after performing a search for that particular building through a search engine, or by navigating to it from one of the site's neighborhood pages. A visitor can then take advantage of our interactive map features, by clicking "Display Nearby Buildings". All condo developments in the area will pop up on the map in the form of a red pushpin, such as the screen shot below:

Visitors can click around the map, and click on the different red pushpins. Pictures of each particular development will be displayed when its corresponding pin is pushed. If a visitor wants more information about a building they have discovered, they can click "Show Me This Building Information" and they will be taken directly to that development's "Condo Building Page".These interactive maps offer prospective condo buyers a wonderful tool to search the many condo developments in Boston, a way to discover both the old and the new real estate buildings, and perhaps gain a little geographical awareness of The Hub.