Seattle real estate agent launches map-based website to help home buyers find Washington homes

Seattle, Washington - As a Seattle Washington real estate agent, Shelly Hu has a lot of advanced tools at her fingertips for finding Seattle property such as foreclosures, condos, luxury properties, and waterfront properties. Now she's making those tools available to her website visitors for free with the launch of her new real estate search website that gives users a wide variety of choices in how they search for Seattle homes.

According to Hu, the new website uses powerful real estate search engine technology along with advanced localization of search results for buyers in the Seattle market.

"It has never been easier to find Seattle real estate than it is now. I wanted to make as much information available to homebuyers as possible," she says. "From the feedback we've received so far I can tell that people are really finding it useful. "

She says that the map search is the most prominent feature, but there are many other methods available on the site to search for Washington real estate.

"Some people prefer the visual interactivity of the map search, because you can see clearly where properties are in relation to other landmarks in Seattle. Others people prefer the advanced real estate search tool, which makes available many of the search criteria that would normally only be accessible to real estate agents."

As a result, she says, the site actually provides thousands of different ways for Seattle homebuyers to find the perfect property to meet their family's needs. Hu suggests that visitors spend some time on the site to get familiar with it.

"The more you use the tools, the more you are likely to discover new techniques to find the kinds of properties you are looking for. One of the best ways to search is just to enter a keyword such as 'Seattle foreclosures' into the text box at the top right."

But the most convenient feature, perhaps, is the property alert service that's built into the site. After a user creates an account, searches and listings can be saved to come back to later. They can also sign up for Realty Watcher automatic email alerts to let them know when new properties come on the market that match their search preferences.

"If you are in the market for Seattle real estate, we definitely recommend trying out the site," Hu says. "We believe this is the best way to search for–and find–Seattle homes for sale."