Find a Neighborhood on REALTOR.com®

“Find a Neighborhood” is a comprehensive search & content destination for visitors to Find, Explore and Learn about neighborhoods. Features include neighborhood characteristics, real estate information & listings, school ratings, local amenities, photos, high resolution photography, map overlays and colorful charts & graphs to educate and inform visitors to REALTOR.com® about all of the great things available in neighborhoods across the United States.

Additional Details and New Features

• The Alpha release will highlight neighborhood information in 34 markets, although detailed information is available for most areas.
  
  
• Search by Neighborhood, City/State, or Zip, navigate through interactive map information and refine matches with dynamic search sliders in order to locate, or browse neighborhoods.
  
  
• Select unique Neighborhood Summary & Detail Pages to learn about community history, housing information, weather & demographic data, school info & ratings, lifestyle profiles, crime statistics, rich media and property listings from REALTOR.com®.
  
  
• View and interact with extraordinary cityscape & neighborhood images in unprecedented gigapixel level detail. These extreme resolution images allow users to experience and explore each location with zoom and pan features that immerse them into the image.
  
  
• View cutting-edge maps, powered by Microsoft Virtual Earth, that include Heat Maps, data overlays as well as “mouse-over” and interactive “panning” functionality.
  
  
• Contribute to the REALTOR.com® community by adding missing neighborhoods with the new Wikihood feature.
  
  
• Upload and view neighborhood photos. Moderators will review use generated content for appropriateness prior to display on the site.

Consumer and REALTOR® Benefits

• Neighborhood information consistently ranks as one of the most important focus points for people looking to move. “Find a Neighborhood” provides consumers with the valuable information and resources they desire on REALTOR.com®.
  
  
• “Find a Neighborhood” caters to consumers who consciously seek out neighborhood information in both factual and emotional ways. This will help to drive new and repeat traffic to member’s property listings and improve overall site stickiness and experience.
  
  
• Neighborhood Summaries display the most important information on a single page, and provide the opportunity to dive further for additional details, positioning REALTORS® as the source for credible information and opening dialogue to interpret information and demonstrate their local market expertise.
  
  
• REALTOR.com® Featured Community advertisers are being provided additional, valuable exposure at no additional cost, in “Find a Neighborhood” to consumers in the early stages of researching their next move.
  
  
• Neighborhood boundaries are often more granular then city and zip code, thereby giving agents and brokers a fresh and attractive presence at this new ‘neighborhood level’ as well as at the more standard city & zip levels.
  
  
• Future releases of “Find a Neighborhood” will introduce social networking as community members submit videos, and comment on existing neighborhoods. Agents and brokers will be provided with additional opportunities to Connect with consumers, and demonstrate their expertise and skills by posting replies and commentary to inquiries about individual neighborhoods.

Frequently Asked Questions about "Find a Neighborhood" (PDF: 967KB)