Comments on: Real Estate Sites Are Holding Up, Despite The Housing Slump. Some (Trulia) Better Than Others (Zillow).

By: Colorado

Colorado — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:35:30 +0000

I think both Trulia and Zillow are great websites for additional exposure of our listings and for buyers and sellers to search for property or check out prices. I know younger buyers use these web sites all the time. They both need some improvements to provide better service to the customers.
Personally I love http://www.luck...ge_real_estate/ I have purchased 3 featured homes spots that bring me plenty of business. Trulia is pushing my listings to the top of the search engines. Zillow is ruining many deals for me.

By: Stacey Baar

Stacey Baar — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:16:05 +0000

I am a fan of http://www.viewmylisting.com. As a home owner, I was able to log in (FOR FREE) and keep up on what my agent was doing with my property instead of always having to call and leave messages. I also found some great listings on there, and could search all over the USA. So my suggestion is if you are an agent, seller or a buyer you should check this site out. It is really easy to use too.

By: Tom Wilkins

Tom Wilkins — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:58:27 +0000

I think that they forgot another big player. What about ViewMyListing.com for example.

http://www.view.../homes-for-sale

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How Accurate Are Listings On Real Estate Sites? | Semantic Web Reviews — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:30:28 +0000

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By: Real Estate Sites Are Holding Up, Despite The Housing Slump. « Weblibraryjpn’s Weblog

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:13:43 +0000

[...] Real Estate Sites Are Holding Up, Despite The Housing Slump. Some (Trulia) Better Than Others (Zillo…(August 19, 2008 TechCrunch) The real estate slump may still be helping to drag down the economy, but real-estate sites like Trulia and Zillow seem to be holding up just fine. In fact, the number of monthly unique visitors to Trulia has more than doubled to 2.4 million over the past year, according to comScore. Zillow, in contrast, remained steady at 1.9 million U.S. uniques in July. [...]

By: Rosie Cade

Rosie Cade — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:54:21 +0000

It’s clear the ’slump’ in the US is pushing the real estate industry to look outside its borders for homebuyers – especially,according to the NAR’s annual report, in states like Florida and California.
The UK’s Financial Times also reported this weekend that foreign buyers now account for a THIRD of New York City condo sales…
http://www.ft.c...?nclick_check=1
For a lot of realtors and their buyers the value of a real estate search site is perhaps coming to be measured by how ‘cross-border’ it is – as the real estate industry becomes less and less local, places to list like Properazzi.com (http://www.properazzi.com) become more important.

By: Galen

Galen — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:48:24 +0000

Dave, sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner. Our UI is something we’ve received a lot of praise for, but we definitely want to improve it. Could you be more specific?

Also, as a partner with local MLSes, we provide significant improvements over national sites; we have significantly more homes for sale and we have the most up-to-date inventory of homes for sale available.

We also have unique features a most other sites lack: nearby schools, transit and restaurants for every home, transit search so you can live near transit, and full text search so you can limit your search with things like “waterfront” or “tudor.”

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Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:23:00 +0000

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AdViking — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:28:04 +0000

In the UK (for now) check out start-up Globrix (http://snipr.com/3iq4m). It was started last year by a couple of ex-FAST guys and so the search is so, so good.

If this site wasn’t UK it would be setting the bar in the US.

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By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:32:03 +0000

Brett Shaw from Cyberhomes:

If you like looking at heatmaps, check out the explore maps section of Cyberhomes.com. We have over 20 categories of maps to choose from.

By: Raj C.

Raj C. — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:19:23 +0000

Right on Truth.

Poor business models and soft execution have made many of these sites nothing more than cluttered ad dumps. Trulia rakes takes millions in VC money and has little more than snazzy ad platform and a Soma address to show for it.

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By: redfin love

redfin love — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:58:46 +0000

I use REDFIN and love it. Compared to that Trulia/Zillow interfaces seem so poor – even though they are pretty good web apps!

By: Dave A

Dave A — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:38:13 +0000

Estately has a horrendous UI and provides little benefit compared to national sites

By: The Truth

The Truth — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:57:42 +0000

Out of the 60 real estate websites listed in this sad thread, to my knowlege only loopnet is profitable. Look how desperate all these real estate websites are, their founders and employees are sitting on Techcrunch trying to get a little seo lift, by plugging their own site.

Features don’t bring income. Real Estate 2.0 Bust is on the horizon.

Everyone working hard to become the next Realtor.com, but Realtor.com can’t even make any money.

By: AY

AY — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:52:35 +0000

it is pretty sad that the replies to this thread are about 90% self promotion. Is this what we are doing to social sites, useful sites like TechCrunch? reducing the user comments to “hey THOSE sites are Horrible – but my new site, in Beta – kicks wanker arse!”

I mean seriously. Very sad.

What may be sadder is the amount of misinformation in the replies to try and discredit the ingenuity, technology, business model, of sites that are flourishing. Zillow and Trulia both have great products and a long list of clients. If you watched the industry, you would see that they are both “media” darlings, they are BOTH Media companies, competing against Yahoo, Google, Realtor.com, etc – not local brokers.

They both have slightly different models – Zillow basing their success on the Zestimate, and Trulia basing their success on easily interpreted, highly targetd real estate data as well as over 3MM listings on their site.

The Real Estate space is the last bastion of Old Media – Travel, Auto and general Classifieds have shifted to the new space. Real Estate still needs its: “Priceline, Expedia and Orbitz” – i.e. the top 3 in the vertical. Which clearly seem to be shaping up to be Realtor.com, Trulia and Zillow… they will domintate 80% of the space, as the rest: Roost, Cyberhomes, et al will scrounge around for the other 20%, keeping the top dogs on their toes and innovating.

Kudos to the innovators for doing what they do. Kharma and a poor business plan will take care of the rest.

By: AY

AY — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:40:39 +0000

The direct source for homes for sale is the MLS? Interesting I thought brokers listed homes, I also could have sworn that NYC has no MLS, so I guess you are never touching that market? Do your investors know that? Roost is a pretty sad site, it’s logo reminds of the Hooters Owl.