Trulia Aims for Nationwide Coverage

Trulia is a real estate search engine that started in California, then opened up in New York and New Jersey followed by Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania. What’s impressive about them is that they honed their product in one local market and then rolled it out to other large regional housing markets while still improving the product.

RIS Media is reporting that Trulia plans to have nationwide coverage by the end of 2006. That’s great news for home buyers and sellers alike. Reading the different press reports, it sounds like real estate agents and brokers are also getting on board with the program and embracing Trulia as a business partner. I can only think that both parties will benefit from the use of this tool.

By year end, Trulia.com will offer access to continually updated search results for home listings nationwide. Trulia’s growing use and popularity is due in large part to a robust menu of home buying and selling resources:

• - Real estate search engine with direct links to thousands of listing broker and agent web sites
• - Millions of data points for more than 10,000 cities across the U.S., including crime statistics, demographics, home values, and more
• - Extensive search categories including neighborhood, zip code, price, number bedrooms/ bathrooms, square footage, property type, and more
• - Search and browse views such as map – list; photos – map; list – details and map only
• - Up to five years of historical trends for average sales prices, price per square foot, sales per month per city and per property type
• - Dynamic street and aerial “mashup maps” enabling consumers to pinpoint specific property locations
• - Home listings sent to consumers via email or RSS reader based on their individual search criteria
• - A comparison engine for users to find similar homes and compare them to others.
• - Save frequent searches, bookmark properties at sign-up, track status from any computer, and e-mail them to others

From the list of uses above, it looks like Zillow has some competition.