Truly a new real estate Web site: Trulia.com
I'm not giving any opinion on this yet, but thought I'd pass it on. This site incorporates Google Maps and serves to aggregate real estate listings from agent and broker web sites. Of course, this will be FAR less than what you'll find on the MLS, for example, and you'll likely see LOTS of outdated information, but it's yet another avenue through which you might find your next home online.
Inman News has an editorial piece on the site. "Trulia.com, now in beta testing, grabs property listings from about 100,000 real estate Web sites in California and displays basic property information while mapping property locations."
"[The company's CEO Peter Flint] said that some agent and broker Web sites have become too busy and cluttered, clouding the core property information that consumers are after. Their solution – taking a page from Google's streamlined, less-is-more user interface – was to build a minimalist site that provides consumers with what they want but nothing else."
posted by Matt Lanning @ 7:45 PM
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Tight Google map integration is definitely the trend of the next gen real estate search engine.
Take a look at http://www.housingrobots.com In additional to what Trulia is providing, they have a couple of unique features that I can't find in similar sites.
1) "SCHOOL-FIRST" search where buyer can have an overview of top school districts and start from there.
2) "PRICE-HISTORY" tracking, so you see all the price changes of the houses.
3) "SURROUNDING" info. They provide surrounding schools, restaurants, church and bank info for their listed house. Very handy.
4) Their Google Map integration is very well done. All the nearby cities will be updated when you move around. Unlike Trulia which give an approximation at high zoom level, their housing information is accurate at all zoom level.
5) I also like their Google Earth integration
Take a look to see if you like it.
Rgds, Ricky
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