I’ve just spent the last three days at RE Barcamp NYC and the Inman Connect Conference held in Times Square, NYC. One of the more interesting sessions was with Google’s own Sam Sebastian who is their Director of Local & B2B (business to business) Markets. One of Brad Inman’s observations was that despite the brand awareness of companies like Zillow and Trulia, Craigslist and Google top the list when it comes to online real estate activity and listing research.

We’ve detailed all of the real estate benefits from Google before but a new one (to me) that Sebastian mentioned was “Google for real estate professionals.”

This small but useful section of the Google Website can be found at:

http://www.google.com/realestatetools

The ‘mini site’ highlights several Google products that:

“make[] it easier for real estate professionals to connect with home buyers and renters at every stage – while they’re looking for properties, checking out locations and selecting their agent”

It’s missing some resources like Google Place Pages and Google Goggles but still has some great information specifically aimed at helping Realtors. As always I’ll be covering some of the other commentary and products from the events over the next few weeks.