Few potential new features

Sergii

Thanks for already super useful extension!

Few potential new features:

cell towers around the property, might be something based on the data from https://www.antennasearch.com or other source
Air Quality Index Report https://www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data/air-quality-index-report (based on last 5-10 years)
driving distance to the major airport

Homeluten

Sergii
Thanks for the great suggestions! We should be able to add cell phone towers and AQI to our road map, not sure about the distance to major airports yet as we will need to do some research to see if there's an easy way we could populate that data.

We are currently working on the sex offender datasets that people requested, so cell phone towers and AQI will come after the release of those data.

Hope this helps! Thanks again for the feedback.

Homeluten

Sergii
Hi Sergii, sorry about the delay, but we are happy to let you know that we've added cell phone towers to our product. It is now available on our web app https://web.homeluten.com/ and will be soon available in our Chrome extension (we've already submitted the new version, just waiting for approval). One thing to note, we've only ingested FCC registered cell phone towers, so that will be fewer than what you saw from antennasearch.

Hope this helps and please let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you for your support!

Homeluten

Sergii

Hi Sergii, this is to let you know that our new Chrome Extension version has been published and you should be able to see the cell phone towers and power lines/stations in our Extension now.

Sergii

Hello!

Thank you so much, I briefly checked it - looks super useful 😀
I'm not in the active search rn, but will start looking again soon and will definitely use your product!

Homeluten

Sergii Thank you for your support! Please let us know if there's anything else we could help with during the meantime.

homeluten23das

Drive time to or from target would be useful. INRIX offers this as an API called "DriveTime"

Also noise heatmap instead of just noise score, howloud.com offers this as an API called "soundscore"

Also mean/median income heatmap per census data

Also education level heatmap per census data

Also average age heatmap per census data

Thank you!

Homeluten

homeluten23das Great suggestions! And we really appreciate your feedback.

We are actually already working on the noise heatmap overlay, something howloud recently made available through their API. It should be available in our Chrome Extension in the next week or so.

We will also add the other items to our roadmap and we will look into them later. However, we are likely going to focus on the rewrite of our Chrome Extension in the next few months so it is faster, safer, and in compliance with Google's v3 standard. Once we are done with the rewrite, we will go back to the new feature development.

Thank you again for your suggestions!

homeluten23das

Homeluten Thank you!

Homeluten

homeluten23das
Hi there, just want to let you know that the noise heatmap is live as a free feature, feel free to check it out. Do not hesitate to let us know if you have any questions or suggestions or feedback.

Thank you for your support.

homeluten23das

Homeluten

Thank you so much, I was shocked to see this feature implemented so quickly, I am certainly going to keep my subscription going.

Another request; ability to filter redfin homes for sale by elevation. For those of us who live in mountainous areas, this would be very useful. For example, be able to sort for homes that are 200ft, 300ft, 600ft in elevation, for example.

If this is not possible, at least have the possibility to use topographical maps with redfin.

Homeluten

homeluten23das
Thank you for your support and the feedback, we are glad to hear it is helpful!

RE: filter by elevation, this is a great suggestion and is possible. But probably not easily available because there's no easy way for us to hijack Redfin's home rendering process. We can definitely look into this later but our guess is the best we could get is probably some sort of polygon based on the elevation of your choice.

That being said, we probably won't be able to get to it till next year because we will be focusing on the rewrite of our extension and website for the rest of this year.

But we also don't want you to be disappointed 😀 We've already submitted a new version that enables the additional terrain map type, which should be available in the next day or two once approved by Google. While you won't be able to filter by elevation, but you can at least see it on the terrain map.

Hope this helps to reduce some immediate challenges that you are having.

homeluten23das

You and the team are great, thank you!

Another feature request: multiple polygon searching!

Homeluten

homeluten23das

Thank you, glad that we are able to help your home search journey.

Thanks for the suggestion on the multiple-polygon search, we will review the feasibility once we are done with our rewrite. Also a heads up, Redfin already supports fixed multi-polygon search, for example: https://www.redfin.com/city/1387/WA/Bellevue/filter/mr=6:16163

We assume you wanted to do a customized multi-polygon search using the Draw feature on Redfin.

homeluten23das

Homeluten

Hi All,

Thank you for the reply.

Yes, you are correct, I meant to request "customized multi-polgon search using the draw feature"

Thank you!

homeluten23das

Hi Team,

Is the extension and project still supported?

The terrain map never seems to have been launched, can you advise?

Thank you

Homeluten

homeluten23das
Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out! The team was on holiday and new year break so things were quite a bit slow here over the last few weeks.

That being said, it looks like the request for Terrian map on the Extension fell through the cracks. We've added them to the web version but forgot to include them in the extension version.

We are deeply sorry about this and are working to add it as of now, it should be available in the next week or so. That being said, we will be issuing a $15 credit to your account for the trouble and it will be automatically applied to your next bill(s).

Thank you,
Team Homeluten

homeluten23das

Hi Team,

Thank you for your reply. Thanks for addressing this and getting the terrain feature on the extension version. The credit is very generous of you :-)

Happy New Year

Homeluten

homeluten23das

Hi there, just want to follow up on this. It turned out the terrain map on the Chrome Extension had already been published back in Nov, and you should have it available starting in version 3.5.4. You can access the terrain map layer control as shown in the screenshot gif below:

You can check your current extension version by clicking on the extension icon while you are on redfin.com, it should be 3.5.4 (or above):

If you are not on at least 3.5.4, please remove and reinstall the extension, which should then upgrade your extension to the lastest version.

Please let us know if you have any questions, sorry about any confusion.

homeluten23das

Thank you all!

Homeluten

homeluten23das
You are welcome! Sorry about the confusion.