Trulia.com expands to cover the entire US
Trulia.com has announced that they will cover the complete U.S. by the end of the month. For those that don’t know, Trulia is a San Francisco company that offers a residential real estate search engine that helps consumers search for homes for sale, trends, neighbourhood insights and other real estate information directly from hundreds of thousands of real estate broker Web sites.
With Trulia soon to cover the entire US the rumors of them expanding into Canada must not be far away. Trulia joins Yahoo, Google, Craigslist, Zillow and Realtor.com in providing free, no user login required property search functionality.
[...] My mind was elsewhere, so I don’t know if Marlow was in the lead with news about Trulia’s nationwide expansion. She’s certainly been all over the story, though, along with Trulia’s own weblog, Ubertor, The Real Estate Marketing Blog, Real Central VA and Marlow herself again. Two days later, she followed up with news that Windermere has gone Google. More from Joel on this move. My take: Okay, but an MLS is a tool wherein I can distinguish a slate roof from a tile roof and a true swimming pool from an above-ground pool. By that standard, we do not have and may never have a national MLS. [...]