Google's Street View has just been expanded to cover more than 95 percent of UK roads. The move has been welcomed by zoopla.co.uk and s1homes.com, both of which are emphasising the benefits for their users. "Being able to offer street-level imagery for the whole of the UK is an invaluable feature for our users as they search for homes to buy or rent and do their research on current home values and recent sold prices," says zoopla.co.uk CEO Alex Chesterman. "zoopla.co.uk is all about providing useful tools to our users help them make better informed property decisons and Google

Leading German property portal immobilienscout24.de has just launched a new design for its commercial real estate section. According to a statement from the portal, the redesign offers improved navigation, and the areas for property seekers and advertisers have been more clearly separated. Along with property listings, immobilienscout24.de's commercial section offers a range of other information, from tips on business creation to a section for those running catering services. The past 12 months have seen immobilienscout24.de make a concerted effort to consolidate its place at the top of the German market. Most recently, the portal launched a wide-ranging ad campaign

Chicago brokerage firm Baird & Warner have announced the addition of a foreclosures search option to their homepage, claiming it has had a major impact on website traffic. Visitors to bairdwarner.com can now choose to search for foreclosures in their area and in other markets, refining results by criteria such as price, house size, and schools. "We're the only company to offer this kind of data in a consumer-friendly format," says Charles Melidosian, the company's chief information officer, "and since our soft launch of it last month, we've seen a 276 percent increase in usage." "The foreclosure transaction is

Three more websites have launched mobile-based offerings over the past few days in an effort to attract property hunters on the move. To begin with, global classifieds portal Locanto, which expanded to 10 new countries in early February, has launched a beta version of its mobile website. Locanto, which currently sees 4 million unique visitors per month, says the new mobile version will provide access to listings from 38 countries and over 1,000 major cities. The New York Times has also jumped into mobile property search with the release of its own iPhone application for apartment hunters. As businessinsider.com