Google has added a Real Estate and Rental Listing search and listing service to Google Base. It combines Google Base and Google Maps to display home listings along with maps to the properties listed.

If you’re a real estate professional, making your listings searchable on Google is simple and completely free. We don’t charge for photos or offer “featured listings.” We believe that buyers just want to see the home that fits them best and that providers shouldn’t have to pay to show it to them. We don’t sell houses, deal with agents’ compensation, or charge for leads. Our business is helping people find the information they’re looking for—when you have it, we send them directly to you. We have a bunch of different upload options tailored to how technical your organization wants to be. These options and our listing removal tools are designed to ensure that content providers maintain control over their data. If you have ideas or feedback for us, please contribute via our Google Group.

The interface is much nicer than Craig’s List but it lacks commercial listings. It also seems to me that Google could do more to promote items listed in Google Base in Google Search results. Often Craig’s List postings appear on the first page but Google Base listings are no where to be found.

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