A New Social Community - Trulia
The newest up and coming real estate community online is Trulia.com. It has the potential to become a very popular resource for both buyers and sellers. Unlike most realtors’ Web sites their goal isn’t a lead; they’re About Us page says they make money from selling advertising. The interface is clean, easy to navigate, and loads quickly. The four main areas of Trulia are homes for sale, real estate guides, heat maps, and Trulia Voices.
1. Homes for Sale - The simple interface allows you to search by price range, location, # of bedrooms and bathrooms, square feet, and property types. It displays the location of your results on a map and lists them below so you can sort by any of the attributes.
2. Real Estate Guides - Use the guides to find data on average prices, income info, crime stats, school info, and community resources.
3. Heat Maps - The heat maps give you a quick overview of listing and sale price differences between cities, counties, and states. It’s a quick visual representation to see the differences between geographic regions.
4. Trulia Voices - Trulia Voices turns this resource into a community. I think this service could become very popular. Buyers, sellers, and residents are all connected together to help each other learn more about specific regions and about real estate in general. This could be especially beneficial to buyers who need to learn about schools, crime, traffic, etc. in an area before they buy a home there.
How could this service influence the real estate market? What other markets could use a service like this?
