Trulia Lands in New York

Dustin (@tyr) on 01 30, 2006

I just got an email announcing that Trulia launched in New York!

Congratulations Pete and Sami! I know that was pretty high on your list of ToDo items!

Are you wondering what Trulia is?

I wrote a post on their service when they launched in California. In general, they have one of the nicest interfaces around for real estate search. If someone is looking for inspiration on how to build a tight real estate search that is focused on providing a maximum of useful information to buyers, they they need to look no farther than Trulia to see how it can be done.

So is there anything wrong with Trulia? I only have two qualms about their service. One, they launched in New York before Seattle! and two, they don’t have a comprehensive database of homes (The California agents I’ve talked to have all mentioned that Trulia does not include a lot of homes that are available and did include a lot of homes that had already been sold.)

With those two caveats in place, it is my opinion that they have one of the most interesting real estate search tools available!

More:

An agent in San Francisco has some nice things to say about Trulia in this post.
And Curbed gets excited about Trulia in New York before they launched here.

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As the founder of Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide, I love to design and implement internet marketing strategies that drives business. In following this passion, I founded 4realz Strategies and regularly speak about social media strategies to real estate audiences. Currently, one of my main projects is building out the social media strategy with Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. Great places to connect with me are LinkedIn and Twitter, where I go by @tyr.

2 Responses to “Trulia Lands in New York”

Claudia

January 31, 2006 at 8:30 am

Exciting to see the innovation going on right now between real estate and aerial mapping. I know you’ve commented before on HomePages.com, but I love the way this site integrates home listings and neighborhood information together in one site. I have friends that swear by it, and literally have narrowed out certain homes from their consideration because they didn’t have the right neighborhood qualities around them. Plus it’s so much fun to play with a site that has home listings and recently-solds all on an aerial photograph of the neighborhood!

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[...] January We launch our New York service, our first state outside of California. Curbed called our NYC announcement a “huge one” and both Gothamist and Rain City Guide liked our “nice” interface. Not a bad way to start the year! [...]

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