Google Real Estate Will Soon Be Dead

At least for now, according to Google’s recent announcement. The search giant will be discontinuing their real estate features within Google Maps and retiring their Google Base API for real estate. Here is a statement from their announcement:

Since the RealShout Wordpress Real Estate Plugin pulls listing data from the Google Base API, it will unfortunately be affected by this change. At this time we have no choice but to retire our plugin. We will remain open to the possibility of using other data providers to see if we can affordability and effectively rebuild the plugin using another data source, however, at this time we have no immediate plans to do so.

It was a great experience developing the RealShout plugin and providing the real estate community with an alternate way to offer a listing search on their local sites. We learned a lot along the way and the feedback we received was amazing.  We are sad to see it go but are hopeful we can build something new and better in the future.