Web GIS Applications in Real Estate

Col. Ramesh Wahi, Sandeep Kuniel
ESRI India
8 Balaji Estate,
Kalkaji, New Delhi 110019


Abstract
The technological boom particularly Information Technology (IT) has touched every facet of life. The real estate operations today have expanded considerably and with changing pace of life the decision making has to keep pace with increase in operations. New technologies are designed to make real estate operations, run more efficiently and to assist property professionals to manage their properties in a much smoother way. The need of the day is to have stream lined system for realtors to have access to their multiple system availability of information both visually and analytically. Similarly the buyers can make his decisions in a virtual environment.

The real estate business is becoming larger in scale and more complex. The buyers would like to have his numerous queries answered quickly without wasting time. Bankers and other financial institutes would also like to process their requests in a much faster way. Hence, there is a need for GIS based systems, which give both spatial as well as non-spatial information in a client-server as well as on internet-intranet. This paper focuses on a couple of such applications for the commercial real estate community.