In real estate there are three factors worth considering - location, location and location. Therefore, it is not a surprise that geospatial web technologies have become a major tool for real estate site evaluation and selection. Lulea University of Technology has incorporated the use of IONIC technology to illustrate this increasing trend of the use of GI in the real estate world.

As part of the Nature GIS project, a European INSPIRE initiative, the Lulea University of Technology created a web portal embedded in the country’s most popular newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, using the IONIC RedSpider Web. This application allowed users to search and view summer chalets for sale in the North of Sweden. The portal also allowed potential buyers to see their chosen location’s proximity to protected and recreational areas.

The portal was successfully demonstrated in November at GeoInfo’2003 held in Norrköping, Sweden, which is a major Swedish geospatial event sponsored annually by ULI, the Swedish Development Council for Land Information. The IONIC RedSpiderWeb Web product empowers the developers at Lulea University of Technology to demonstrate that the real estate market can benefit from geospatial technology.