Nestoria

Nestoria is a vertical search engine for real estate. In terms of users, Nestoria is the 5th largest property web site in the UK and the 9th in Spain. 

Nestoria aggregates real estate listings from property portals and provides location-based search to Internet users. Results can be sorted by relevance, freshness, distance and type of property. 

Javier Etxebeste and Ed Freyfogle, two former Yahoo! executives, founded Lokku Limited in April 2006, based in  London. It is equity backed by private investors from United Kingdom and Spain. The first website brand Nestoria UK launched in June 2006, in Spain May 2007. 

Nestoria is a case study of Google Maps API use and of the Yahoo! User Interface library. As a web application hybrid, Nestoria geo-locates properties on maps and combines them with Point of Interest of transport, schools, hospitals and other local information relevant to homes seekers. 

It includes widgets and a Facebook application. The company operates blogs in all the languages it operates, and regularly interviews thought-leaders from the realm of internet technology and new media businesses.

Here is the link to access http://www.nestoria.es/