Tune out if you’ve had enough of all the Facebook talk.
Following on the previous posts about Frontdoor’s implementation of Facebook Connect, Hotpads has rolled out a revamped homepage that also features Facebook integration prominently.
As with Frontdoor, you can now login to HotPads using only your Facebook account. The nice thing is Hotpads lets you dive [...]
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Filed Under: InternetTags: Hotpads, real estate 2.0, trulia, webby award
Congrats to Trulia for winning the 2009 Webby award in the real estate category. This is nice recognition for the Bay-Area company, but they still have a ways to go to catch up its nearest competitors.
Traffic to all the major portals seems to be ticking up after a pretty miserable 4th Quarter all around. Trulia [...]
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Friday, March 27, 2009 Filed Under: InternetTags: Hotpads, vacation search
All this talk about the economy got you down?
Why not head to the Coast?
Don’t know about you – but I could sure use a vacation these days. Hotpads, another search portal we haven’t heard much from lately (see Roost Changes Up Their Game), now can help.
They’ve just launched a new feature on their site that [...]
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Monday, April 7, 2008 Filed Under: InternetTags: foreclosures, Hotpads, real estate 2.0
Trulia lets you search ‘em.
Zillow lets you talk about ‘em. (Love the contextual advertising!)
Now Hotpads lets you map ‘em. Very cool (and scary, depending on where you live) feature on Hotpads lets you map, county-by-county, the number of foreclosures near you.
Just click on Heat Maps and then choose Foreclosures by Capita. High number areas are [...]
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We haven’t heard much from Hotpads recently over the last year, but thankfully all is not lost for the property search engine. They just launched a new feature on their site that introduces a new search variable to the mix – the rent vs. buy decision. From their press release:
In the down real estate market [...]
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HotPads.com, the apartment and rental home search engine and one of the founding members of Real Estate 2.0, had been awfully quiet lately. (For more, read Renters Arm Themselves With Info)
This week however they burst back on the scene with a brand new features, new maps , new imagery and more importantly – $2.3 million [...]
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Posted by Joel Burslem on Thursday, October 5, 2006 Filed Under: InternetTags: Hotpads, Hotpads.com, iiProperty, real estate 2.0, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-software, Real-Estate-web-site, Real-Estate-Web-Sites, rental-housing, Rentals, Rentometer, Rentometer.com, web 2.0
A couple of rental-related sites to check out today.
Rentometer is a fun site. If you’re a renter, punch in your address and how much you’re currently paying and the site cranks out a GMaps mashup of rentals in your neighborhood – plus a fancy animated barometer of where you stand in comparison to what your [...]
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