With the ending of Google’s real estate listing service in Maps, it was necessary for Google to update the Google Places Quality Guidelines to reflect the fact that the service was no longer available as a listing option:
| Previous Guidelines | New Quality Guidelines |
| Ineligible Business Models: Only businesses that make in-person contact with customers qualify for a Google Places listing. | Ineligible Business Models: Only businesses that make in-person contact with customers qualify for a Google Places listing. |
| Rental properties, such as vacation homes or vacant apartments, are not eligible for a listing on Google Places. Create a listing for the central office that processes the rentals, rather than the individual rental properties. If you’d like, you can then add your real estate properties to Google Maps so that they are available on our Real Estate layer. | Rental or for sale properties, such as vacation homes or vacant apartments, are not eligible for a listing on Google Places. Create a listing for the central office that processes the sales or leasing offices, rather than the individual rental properties. |
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