Trulia News

Given the rise of real estate sites like Trulia and Redfin , it's clear that the internet has become a primary resource for prospective home shoppers.

All hail the new MLS. Trulia...... What happens to free? Its worthless, maybe partially valuable, or eventually after hooking users like a drug, it charges a fee.

Trulia has rolled out Trulia Pro, a fixed-price ad platform that gives real estate agents and other home-focused advertisers the ability to create and launch online property listings and hybrid search/display ...

BankUnited Financial Corporation today announced the launch of a public offering of its Class A common stock, with gross proceeds of $400 - SAN FRANCISCO-- --Trulia.com, the best place to start a real estate ...

Our growing ability to use the Internet as a giant database, apply that information in a creative way to build interesting mash-up applications, and then apply them to markets - stock, real estate or fantasy - ...

Greg Swann at Bloodhound Blog has a good read on the differences between Seattle-based Zillow.com and San Francisco-based Trulia, noting that Zillow has "a much better chance of winning the battle for eyeballs ...

Sami Inkinen co-founded real estate search company Trulia with Pete Flint in 2004 while they were studying for their MBAs at Stanford University.

“Rather than making dozens of individual buys, or settling for more generic sites and networks, we expect to gain visibility on all the best niche sites on the Web quickly and cost-effectively through a single point of contact”

Real estate search and marketing site Trulia.com has launched a real estate ad network to allow real estate brokers, lenders and other advertisers to target home buyers and sellers on multiple real estate niche ... via Inman

Real estate search engine Trulia has expanded to offer an ad network. The Trulia Ad Network combines content from sources like classifieds provider Oodle, neighborhood-based real estate site Homes & Land, with ... via MediaPost

The winners of the 12th annual Webby Awards were announced today , with comedian Stephen Colbert named the "Webby Person of the Year." A few Seattle companies were picked, not a surprise since there are nearly ... via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“People are using the public forum in a private way to solve their problems. Real estate is very personal and people will tell the most heart-breaking stories. 'I just got divorced and I'm losing my house.' The community is very benevolent.”

Amid all the horrendous news on housing, one heart-warming thing about writing for this blog is seeing readers come to the aid of other readers. via Hot Property

“Google is a blackbox -- it's a complete blackbox, so we don't know exactly what to do to get to the top of search engines.”

Company's SEO strategies debated among industry insiders By Glenn Roberts Jr. , Monday, May 5, 2008. via Inman

Google has now incorporated StreetView images into driving directions. This is another practical application of the street-level photography. via Screenwerk

“There is a great deal of inventory in the marketplace, interest rates are low and, as this data clearly indicates, San Francisco continues to be one of the best performing areas in the entire country”

By Matt Carter , Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Another item from my inbox today, a press release from the San Francisco Association of Realtors, presented without comment : SAN FRANCISCO - Proving home ownership ... via Inman News Blog

Real estate brokers can now use vFlyer to push listings out to sites like Google Base, Yahoo Classifieds, Trulia, Zillow and Oodle, while leaving it up to individual agents to decide whether they want to create ... via Inman

“If people have issues with what Google is taking pictures of, it's really Google that's managing the privacy issues around (Street View)”

Trulia claims to be the first national real estate site to offer the feature that allows prospective home buyers to take a virtual walk down the street and tour the surrounding neighborhood. via MediaPost Publications

Trulia , the real estate portal, has added a new " StreetView " feature that enables home buyers to not only check out a house, but also navigate up and down the street and neighborhood. via The Kelsey Group

The real estate market is in serious turmoil and has likely thrown the entire economy into a recession, so you'd think a real estate search startup might not be a hot item. via VentureBeat

“In this uncertain economy, people are really searching for ways to ensure the big purchases they make are going to be sound”

For those braving current real-estate conditions and buying a home, the school district in which the home resides may be one of the most important elements to look at these days, according to a study by ... via MarketWatch

Thursday, March 20, 2008, by Sarah Hromack Otherwise, good luck to you - and your little dearies. via Curbed SF