Sharing an address, exact or approximate
Share a location
The property’s area, the exact address for you alone
Place the property for buyers who do not know the town yet: the postcode, the town and a circle of 100 m to 1 km. The exact address is shown to no one but you; you give it once the viewing is booked.
- The neighbourhood placed on a map
- An offset circle, never centred on the property
- The exact address once the viewing is booked
Replaces: An address read out over the phone · A screenshot of a map
The address the seller’s agency gave you stays in your hands
An address picked from the national database
The shared location is an address you pick from suggestions and confirm on a map. Each reader opens it in one click in their maps app: nobody has to dictate it or ask for it again.
An address picked, a map, one click
In the composer, the "Share a location" menu (under "Plan") opens the form.
- You type the address and pick a suggestion. The search relies on the French national address base (IGN geocoding): picking a suggestion is mandatory, so the address cannot be approximate by accident.
- A map is shown. If the marker is not quite in the right spot, you move it by hand, and the address updates.
- You can add a name ("Site", "Car park entrance") and a note: access code, floor, access.
- The reader sees a map thumbnail. If the location is exact, an "Open with…" menu on the thumbnail sends it to Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze or OpenStreetMap. Clicking the thumbnail enlarges the map in a window where you can move around.
The location is open to both parties and has no status or due date: it is information, not a request.
An area, when the address is nobody's business
A property for sale before the viewing, a home, a site whose neighbours need not know the details: some addresses are not given right away. With the "Approximate location" switch, the map only shows the postcode, the town and a circle whose radius you set, from 100 m to 1 km. The name and the detail line, however, stay readable by every reader: put no door code or floor in them until the address is given.
The circle's centre is shifted from the address, and republishing the same location always gives the same centre: cross-checking several publications therefore cannot recover the point. The exact address stays encrypted, is never shown to readers and never included in the folder's export. Only the publication's author gets it back, by editing it.
Once the viewing is set, you republish the location as exact.
In practice
- Real estate. The property is announced by its area before the viewing. The exact address is given only once the appointment is agreed, with the slot picked in appointment booking.
- Construction and renovation. The site is shared as an exact location, with its access (gate, code): the client reaches the address without having to call.
What it does not do
- Address suggestions are limited to France. A location abroad cannot be saved this way.
- An approximate area hides the address from the map, not the existence of the location: the postcode and the town stay visible.
- Once the exact address is published, every reader of the publication sees it. Decide beforehand who reads it, with document confidentiality.
Related reading
A shared location adds no date. For the appointment to show up in your calendar, use the calendar subscription.
Your next folder, with nothing lost along the way
Not the right time?
Get the link by e-mail and pick up later, from your computer.
One e-mail only, and your address is not kept.