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UK-Based Real Estate Engine Launches

Just when you thought there were enough competitors in the real estate vertical, here comes some more. Last week a new real estate search engine, Roost, launched in selected US markets. Today UK-based DotHomes, which has been operating in the UK and South Africa, makes its US debut. DotHomes seeks to become “the Google of property search” and is crawling for listings. By contrast, Yahoo Real Estate, Roost, Trulia and Zillow, as well as others, get feeds from brokers and MLS services.
The rest of this post is at SEL.
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The NY Times’s Bob Tedeschi has a good article about the real estate vertical today.

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3 Responses to “UK-Based Real Estate Engine Launches”

  1. Google Maps New Feature, Video « Screenwerk Says:
    January 28, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    [...] used Google’s My Maps to make a list of open houses this weekend as I was testing out the DotHomes real estate search engine. It was very helpful and other real estate sites should take a look at developing similar [...]

  2. Property of Google? No! The Google of Property | Strategist.org.uk Says:
    January 29, 2008 at 12:00 am

    [...] Sterling of Screenwerk is all gloomy about survival prospects for 10-12 real estate search engines. He likes the Bob Tedeschi POV in his NY Times E-Commerce Report today, Despite Housing Slide, Real [...]

  3. DotHomes Integrates Foreclosures from RealtyTrac « Screenwerk Says:
    March 17, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    [...] my previous post on [...]

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