HAR has a surprisingly good site
The Houston Association of Realtors has a surprisingly good search site (thanks to Joel for the post about it).
Some notable features:
- Based on Virtual Earth
- Search by drawing your own polygon (though John L Scott’s has a slightly better interface)
- Send listing details to text message
- Nice grouping of listings in a multi-unit building on the map
- Similar search criteria overlay metaphor that we use at Redfin
- The longest list of social bookmarking ever
- Integration with Virtual Earth for nearby stuff
- Language translation
- Compare listings side by side
- Email the listing agent (I wish all MLSes would include the listing agent email in their data feeds)