Trulia.com -- Real Estate Search Engine
I love search engines, so I'm always on the look-out for new ones. Big general-purpose search engines like Google and Yahoo Search are fine, but I also like search engines created for specific purposes like Trulia.com -- a search engine for real estate listings.
So far, they've only got listings for California, but hopefully they'll eventually get it rolled out nation-wide. They don't do 'for sale by owner' listings, but instead integrate data from heaps of different real estate websites into one big interface.
Already they've indexed over 100,000 real estate websites. The initial interface is simple -- a search box where you can type in a city name or ZIP code. Then on the first results page, you can choose nearby cities, narrow the results by price, size, number of bedrooms, etc. The locations of the listings are shown through a Google Maps interface, and in addition to info on the individual properties, there's also some useful info about the real estate market in your chosen city -- average house price broken down by bedroom, average days on the market, etc.
It's easy to use, it looks good, it's helpful, and it's not hard to see how they could end up making a lot of money. For people interested in California real estate, it's worth a bookmark, and if you're more interested in other states, you can give them your email address and they'll notify you when they've started offering listings in that state. Sweet!
Edited to add: Since I've been Flockblogging, I haven't been logging into Blogger to make my posts. But after publishing this entry, I realised it needed a bit of tweaking, so I logged into Blogger to edit it. And according to Blogger, this is the 100th FreeCashSpace blog entry. Woot!
So far, they've only got listings for California, but hopefully they'll eventually get it rolled out nation-wide. They don't do 'for sale by owner' listings, but instead integrate data from heaps of different real estate websites into one big interface.
Already they've indexed over 100,000 real estate websites. The initial interface is simple -- a search box where you can type in a city name or ZIP code. Then on the first results page, you can choose nearby cities, narrow the results by price, size, number of bedrooms, etc. The locations of the listings are shown through a Google Maps interface, and in addition to info on the individual properties, there's also some useful info about the real estate market in your chosen city -- average house price broken down by bedroom, average days on the market, etc.
It's easy to use, it looks good, it's helpful, and it's not hard to see how they could end up making a lot of money. For people interested in California real estate, it's worth a bookmark, and if you're more interested in other states, you can give them your email address and they'll notify you when they've started offering listings in that state. Sweet!
Edited to add: Since I've been Flockblogging, I haven't been logging into Blogger to make my posts. But after publishing this entry, I realised it needed a bit of tweaking, so I logged into Blogger to edit it. And according to Blogger, this is the 100th FreeCashSpace blog entry. Woot!
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