For real estate buyers right now it’s a crazy time. The fear of making the wrong decision can be paralyzing at times, so having access to information is critical.
I thought I’d share some of the tools I’ve been using in my own search.
What’s Happening on the Ground?
Trulia.com
Trulia generates its reports from its internal database of [...]
Google Insights for Search is a fantastic new tool that allows you to dig into Google’s search volume patterns to find trends.
While I think there are a lot of ways you can use this tool (see agentgenius.com), I think that for most marketers the geographic breakdowns will be one of the most interesting - mainly [...]
When Trulia launched its new ad network (see Trulia Launches First Online Real Estate Ad Network) it was an attempt to leverage their network of advertisers while providing a way for third party publishers to showcase their advertising inventory to larger brand advertisers.
It’s a proven business model that works well across the Net, as evidenced [...]
Eppraisal.com pushed out a major new release of its site today which you can read more about on Realty Thoughts - eppraisal’s corporate blog.
Eppraisal prides itself in having the largest database of homes in the US with over 120 million property records (compared to Zillow’s stated 70 Million and Cyberhomes’ 100 Million). I have no [...]
AOL Real Estate just did a soft launch of its real estate portal - the site, still in BETA, has been significantly redesigned and now incorporates map-based search using maps from Mapquest, home valuation tools from Cyberhomes (see Cyberhomes Sneaks Into the Big Time) and mortgage data from Bankrate.com.
Listing data is sadly lacking right now [...]
Inman News Blog has the news that Fidelity’s Cyberhomes has signed a deal with AOL Real Estate to power all of its home valuations. This is a big win for Cyberhomes, which has been steadily and stealthily rolling out new features and signing up brokers to get access to their listing feeds (most recently with [...]
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