How to Search Using the Map

You know how to search using our search form, but that’s only using half of the tools that you have available to you. I’m going to show you how to conduct a search using just the map. Begin by clicking the Draw Zoom Box button at the bottom, left corner of the map. Select an area of the map to zoom into by clicking and dragging out a zoom area.

You can see how many listings are on a particular map view by looking at the map count in the upper, left corner of the map. You can see that we have a total of 168 listings on this map. To view the thumbnails and locations of these listings click the Retrieve Listings button. As always, only 100 listings will be shown at a time. To view the next 100, use the page numbers found at the bottom of the thumbnail list. A new page will bring up a new set of thumbnails and their corresponding map markers.

If you move the map, the system will recalculate the map count number, but keep the previously retrieved listings’ thumbnails and map markers. Now you can see that our new map count is 159 listings. To view the thumbnails and map markers for the new map count, click the Retrieve Listings button again. Now we have an entirely different set of listings.

Let’s say you want to find out how many properties are listed in a few different areas on this particular map view. If you click the Search Map Area(s) button, in the top, right corner of the map, you can drag boxes around your areas of interest. The number of listings in that area will be displayed in a yellow box. You can draw as many search areas as you like. To view the thumbnails and map markers for the listings in these search areas click the Retrieve Listings button. Now we are looking at listings located only in the areas we were interested in.

This tool can be particularly helpful for people who are looking to move to a specific neighborhood or school district. By using the Search Map Area(s) tool to drag out boxes that encompass the neighborhood or school district, you can see what houses are listed in those individual areas. The best part of all is that you can search multiple areas at a time.