Show the area, not the address
Buyers browse by location, but not every owner wants a pin on their door. A map can sell the neighborhood while the exact address stays yours to reveal — per property, your call.
By the ORCA Estate team
Location is the first question every buyer asks, and a map answers it faster than any paragraph. But "where exactly is it?" is also the one detail some owners rightly guard — an occupied villa, a seller who hasn't told the neighbors, a landlord who prefers inquiries before drive-bys.
Three honest settings
- Exact: the pin sits on the property. Right for vacant units and developments where the address is the selling point.
- Area: the map shows a neighborhood circle, not a door. The listing still appears in map searches for the district — buyers get the location story, the owner keeps the address.
- Hidden: no map at all. The listing sells on photos and facts, and location comes up in conversation.
Privacy that is real, not cosmetic
A privacy setting that merely hides the pin in the browser is theater — the coordinates still travel with the page for anyone who looks. In ORCA Estate, an area-mode listing never sends the exact point to the visitor's browser at all; the circle is drawn from a coarsened location, so there is nothing precise to find. The default for every property is hidden until you decide otherwise.
Buyers want to browse the map. Owners want control of their address. You should not have to choose one client over the other — set it per property and sell both ways.