Trulia Driving Lots of Traffic
After I wrote my Zillow post I got a note from Trulia pointing me to their blog:
According to the latest data released by Hitwise, Trulia.com has jumped ahead of our peer group and now ranks alongside Google and Yahoo! (yes, THE Google and Yahoo!) as one of the top three contributors of traffic to 12 of the largest residential real estate firms nationwide in the past month (August 18 – September 15, 2007).
We’ve continued our consistent trend of double-digit monthly growth to the site, and even higher increases to partner Web sites, which now average three million user visits per month. That means we’ve outpaced fellow online real estate marketing sites Google Base, Craigslist, HomeGain, Realtor.com and Zillow.
Trulia is a terrific site and has been very innovative with features (most recently community). It’s really the other story in the “Web 2.0″ real estate segment. And because Trulia hasn’t raised as much as Zillow, it’s a more likely acquisition target — at least in the near term.
September 20, 2007 at 9:05 pm
I do love Trulia, Zillow’s alright. One company that I also check my information against is HouseFront. They are kinda like those two sites but a lot more simplistic, I think that money is ruining Zillow in my opinion, thats why I like trulia better and also HouseFront, because they dont seem as big not many people know about HouseFront (its my little secret). But that’s great trulia can do that much with less money than zillow.
September 20, 2007 at 10:38 pm
I’m spending hours on these sites currently and redfin easily gets my vote. Very easy to expand/contract search area, very easy to add/remove search criteria. Easy drill down on home details. Save searches, search alerts and favorite homes works well too. Vulcan recently put $8M in on a B round, no idea what they started with but they claim to “run on a shoestring”.
Re zillow, I can only guess they are pitching VCs on how they will eventually disintermediate the brokers — can’t imagine why else anyone would pump that much money into them. I’m sure the emps are thrilled with the constant dilution.
September 22, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Keep and eye on Listingbook.