Trulia continues Innovation in Real Estate Search
Posted: Tuesday, April 8th, 2008, 8:59 pm EST
Category: Tips, Tools & Tech
I have no problem complementing vendors or service providers to the real estate industry when their products impress me. Tonight Trulia gets some love for continuing to push the real estate search experience to better places. Trulia announces Google Street View integration to allow users the opportunity to see real estate at eye level.
Trulia highlights these benefits of the new feature:
The Street View is high-resolution imagery that lets you:
• View a property up close from multiple angles
• Check out the yard and other attributes of the lot
• Walk past nearby homes
• Take a tour of the block and neighborhood
The feature is currently available in more than 30 U.S. cities and the images on Trulia are being updated real-time as more locations are added.
Kudos to Trulia for continuing to push Zillow for recognition as the best new real estate search engine. Realtor.com will need to pay attention to many of these innovations or risk losing confidence from it’s membership as more Buyer’s eyeballs find Trulia.com more engaging.
On a side note, do we really want to have Google be our big brother? (i love this video)
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This is only the second time I have seen StreetView used on a real estate website (the first on a national site). Trulia seems to be working hard to make a name for themselves(Zillow who?).
Hey Nix, I had spotted the Local.live trucks roaming around Atlanta months ago taking street view pictures for their product.
When they launch theirs that should really be interesting.
Thanks for the heads up!