Google Maps first integrated real estate searches in July, and has since made one upgrade, and now the search engine giant is making several more interesting changes to make property searches easier and search results more useful for users, the most significant being the option to search for properties by simply adding "real estate" to a map search.

The addition also covers variations of the keyword and other search combinations like "homes for sale", and link locations to individual "place pages" will also be included to provide the searcher with more information about properties.

The place pages, christened Google Base, will incorporate listings sent in by agents and brokers, and every listing will have its individual page, and one single page will give the users all the information about a property, including details of the property, pictures, videos and its street view, among others.

The new real state search options were announced by Google Australia's software engineers in a post on the company's official blog. As of now, Google Base only includes homes for sale, apartments which are available for rent and distressed property listings from across Canada and US.