Automated Home Valuations From Trulia, Zillow, Etc: Who Do Estimates, Zestimates, Online Values Benefit?
by Sam DeBord on 5:45 pm September 14, 2011
Automated home valuations are a growing trend on real estate websites. While Zillow’s Zestimates are clearly the standout leaders in this field, there are plenty of others. Eppraisal. Cyberhomes. Trulia has a one-city beta product in the works, while First American has had its own automated valuation model for quite some time. Even our own Geek Estate Blogger, Justin Britt, has a new Hawaii Life Value Score, taking a different angle with more of a comparative score valuation. The vast majority of real estate professionals I encounter dismiss the value of these … Read More »
Are Trulia Estimates Too Little, To Late?
by Justin Britt on 1:08 pm September 9, 2011
National real estate player Trulia began its foray into the home valuation space yesterday. Trulia Estimates, as they’re called, are currently in beta and available for sold properties in the San Francisco Bay Area. Brian Boero of 1000Watt Consulting provides a thourough break down of the Trulia Estimate launch, so I won’t go any deeper. Instead I’ll focus on: What this move means to consumers, How it might affect the business side of things, What it means to SEO, A comparison of Trulia Estimates and Zillow … Read More »
Trulias new Crime Map
by Joe Trusty on 9:19 am June 3, 2011
Trulia, Inc. has released an innovative new tool that went live June 02, 2011. Crime Map gives users a birds eye view of what crime is like in the area that they’re thinking about moving to. Trulia made a genius acquisition in purchasing this new mapping technology from Movity which vastly improves their own offering. Crime Map draw it’s statistics from three separate data sources that report to most the police agencies in the country. SpotCrime, CrimeReports, and EveryBlock power the map results. View this … Read More »
The Realtor.com, Trulia, Zillow Ad Network Race
by Drew Meyers on 12:05 pm March 11, 2011
When it comes to real estate ad networks – Zillow has Yahoo! Real Estate & hundreds of newspapers. Trulia has CNNMoney. Realtor.com has MSN. Realtor.com just announced their deal with BlockShopper.com yesterday. I think, over the next 12-24 months, we will see a race between Zillow, Trulia, and Move (Realtor.com) to sign up the next wave of niche real estate sites and media outlets to their respective ad networks. Building an inside sales team to sell ads is an extremely expensive undertaking, but required to reach agents all over the country. … Read More »
Interview with Trulia’s Lead Generation Manager Steve Rossi
by Drew Meyers on 9:37 am January 20, 2011
Whether you’re an agent constantly answering phone calls from vendors, or a vendor yourself who relies upon selling to real estate agents to make your living, there are some interesting insights in the following video from Steve Rossi, Lead Generation Manager at Trulia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDC8dbUHvOs [via Vendor Alley]
Trulia Voices and Zillow Advice As Marketing Platforms
by Brian Rothenberg on 9:29 pm January 9, 2011
Over the weekend I ran into a real estate related problem. I rent an apartment in New York City and my landlord is planning to list the property for sale 8 months before my lease is up. I wanted to better understand my rights as a tenant, such as how often can they show the apartment, what is “reasonable notice” for a showing, and how many open houses can they hold? I turned to Google but the results either didn’t meet my expectations, or the … Read More »
Behind “Door #1″ at Inman Connect … “Fear & Embarrassment”
by TheRECoach on 9:51 am July 15, 2010
“This is not my Locker” I know it is inevitable that I will be asked (perhaps 100′s of times) “What did you learn from Inman Connect SF this week”? or “What was the most interesting thing you learned at Inman Connect SF”? or some variation of that general question. In years past I may have made something up to illicit a response like “That’s Nice” or “Wow, that’s great!”, but NOT this year! This year something very accidental, yet incredibly enlightening happened and it all … Read More »
Am I Wrong? or Was this “Trulia Voices” Exchange “Crossing an Ethical Line”?
by TheRECoach on 2:38 pm April 13, 2010
Ok, first off, if I am wrong I will write a letter of apology to all person’s involved in this. But, I came across, an all to familiar, exchange on Trulia Voices today. Granted, I AM NOT A PRACTICING REALTOR (though I do hold a license to do so). I work with Realtors, assisting them on their journey into the RENet, so you can tell me to “Screw Off” here if you want I have known hundreds, if not thousands, of Realtors and Brokers as … Read More »
Real estate sites way back when…
by Erion Shehaj on 9:33 pm August 14, 2009
Your favorite real estate sites and blogs today are slick and shiny, modern and contemporary, functional and 2.0. But that wasn’t always the case. Check out some of your favorite sites way back when: Zillow.com circa January 2005 The Phoenix Real Estate Guy circa January 2006 Trulia.com circa October 2005 AgentGenius circa October 2007 RealCentralVA (Jim Duncan) circa October 2005 Wanna play? Head over to Wayback Machine and see what your favorite site used to look like in the internet ice ages.
10 Top Reasons to RE Connect at Inman
by Brad Andersohn on 2:05 am July 18, 2008
As the event gets closer, many are rushing to get flights, accommodations and tickets to Brad Inmans RE Connect in San Francisco next week. The event is scheduled for 3 days July 23rd – 25th. The REBlogCamp will be on Tuesday, July 22nd. Here are the Top 10 Reasons you’ll want to consider attending this years program. REBlogCamp Zillow Beer For Bloggers Bloggers Connect The Trulia House Party The ActiveRain Gathering The Internet Marketing Workshop The Main Conference Makeover 2 Takeover Contest Foreclosure Workshop Innovator … Read More »
