Cool New Thing: Trulia Launches in NYC

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It didn't shift. It freaking opened the earth's core and swallowed the entire market. I can't wait to see what Zillow brings to the table.

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Curbed exclusive? I wrote about Trulia adding NY search this morning at 9:45AM. Just dont want my favorite blog to think I stole their exclusive!

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I thought the major brokers blocked listing agregators who deep link into their sites. Has Trulia made a deal with the brokers listed there?

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I know Corcoran offers a XML feed to their NEWEST SALE LISTINGS:

http://www.corcoran.com/property/latestlistings.aspx?Region=NYC&FP=NL&SRType=S

Trulia has a 'Request A Crawl' feature on their site for brokerages to use to get their listings into their db. I guess its a no-brainer as Trulia's marketing efforts only provide more exposure for the listing. But I would think Trulia hit the big brokerages on their own to get NY sales listings off the ground.

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Ha, well, the Trulia guys promised an exclusive, but the Internet routes around such crap. Hat tip, UD!

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At the Inman conference, the Trulia guys made it clear they were in conversation with the major players on the NYC scene. Which makes sense: you don't just barge into someone's living room without knocking first.

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matrix.millersamuel.com had it this AM also.

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See, totally should have blogged it when they emailed at 11:54pm last night. We'll get you next time, Miller!

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Annoyingly hyped, as are most things on this site. Too freaking good to be true!

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LOL! Now thats funny Lock!

Enough of this exclusive babble! Have you guys seen the newest player in online real estate search:

http://www.realestateadvisor.com/

I saw this on Inman Blog yesterday and seems a take-off on Trulia's layout. What is up with all these players hitting online real estate search? With Zillow coming there are 4 now: Trulia, Streeteasy, RealEstateAdvisor, & Zillow.

Don't you think this market is getting a bit saturated? Buyers looking online have got to be confused. Instead of going to multiple brokers to find listings, they now have to go to multiple meta search sites to find listings. The problem that was to be solved presents a new problem!

It would be interesting to rate these guys for accurate content, OH search capabilities & accuracy, up to date content, etc..

Personally I like Streeteasy.com for NYC because of their creative searching features such as School Zones, Find Your Building, Recent Conversions, New Dev's, Most Actives, Most/Least Expensive, etc..

But thats just me! Trulia definately upgraded big time though with addition of Miller Samuel data and building specific data.

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Yeah, a comparison would be good. I'll whip one up for the afternoon.

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Yeah, I'd be really interested in seeing a comparison of features and content.... which ones have the most complete listings?

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Still no Queens? I know they've got their MLS thing, but don't think many Manhattan and Brooklyn brokers belong.

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If they put in Queens, than how about Bronx and Staten Island.. Oh nevermind

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Lock - does it really matter when it was posted? Are we that concerned with trivial minutia? Is this why we do what we do? Could we be so shallow?

Heck yes! I posted at 9:07pm last night and that was only because I had to help my kids with their homework! ;-)

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hah! Obviously a few kinks to work out. I was curious about a listing in my hood, Bushwick, on Central for over 3 mill!

Uhhh, too bad it actually points to a halstead listing at 257 Central Park West. Close. not!

http://www.trulia.com/property/8487095/

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Is there a similar site for properties that have recently sold?

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I'm not impressed. A search for my address missed the 3 or 4 apartments currently for sale in the building (picked up by Natefind.com). In addition, the info for the building is all wrong - possible refers to the property that was here before the current building went up in 1977...

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Can someone with a better understanding of economics than I have walk us through the potential impact this could have on the market - both long term and short term.

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I got 8 listings for my building on Streeteasy.com

http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/building/1801-2-avenue-manhattan

I got 0 listings for same building on Trulia.com

http://www.trulia.com/property/9970579/

*However I know they have at least 1 listing for my building, but doesnt register when I do a building search. Plus the Property Shark data is incorrect for building.

http://www.trulia.com/property/11301258/

I got 0 listings from RealEstateAdvisor.com when I did an Advanced Search using 10128 as ZIP and "245 East 93rd" in keywords. Tried a few variations too, with similar results.

http://www.realestateadvisor.com/advancedSearch.php?mylistings=0

This is a huge difference.

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Forgot Natefind..Thanks jlfoxton...

Natefind.com found 9 listings, 1 more than Streeteasy.com.

http://www.natefind.com/results.php?low=&high=&location=245+e+93rd&choice=buy&br=0&column=4&direction=1&searchcodes=&page=0&pagelast=0&searchexception=245+e+93rd&Submit=Find+Apartments

Wow.. this site is pretty good.

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speaking of maps, does anyone know of a map (an actual portable, laminated one) of Williamsburg and other Brooklyn neighborhoods? All I can find are general ones for all of Brooklyn and they're just too hard to read and deal with.

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I'm with Jonathan... Who cares when it was posted first??? Although I did have it up at 9:27PM last night! ;)

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Count me in as another natefind fanboy.
Most useful data (presented on main list) are age of listing, price drops and when they occured.

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Thanks for backing me up Dustin...no wait a sec... isn't that pacific time? ;-)

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What's the big woop? It's all about New York Times Real Estate online!!

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Trulia did not get permisson from the Real Estate firms. They asked (blackmailed???) firms with the oldest trick. "The big firms are in - don't be left behind"

The fact is no one is looking at the data. This is a BAD user experience. Users will not find all the listings they need. They will see duplicate listings and they will find listings in the wrong neighborhood. BUT, they will have a nice Map (taken from Google) to play with. Big deal. Maps are the new VRTOUR. They are a useful tool but I'd rather have the best data.
Have fun playing on all the new sites that steal,err take listings. When you want to find a property, that came on line a minute ago you still need to go to big Real Estate firms. If you don't you will miss opportunities.

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This is a rip off of PropertyRover - my firm has been using it for years and its great.

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PropertyRover has this down pact, they are a NY based firm and understand the market.....hear hear

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I am a broker here in NY and have used the rover for years, this doesnt have all the bells and whistles of the brokers tool but it is right on the money

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scroll, I think you meant PropertyRover's business tools

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see our post on the rover:

http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/?p=139

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Looks like the listings arena is in over drive, I have been using a service called CityCribs.com http://www.citycribs.com, i have to say that consumers love this site and although not a meta search it allows advertisers to reach consumers in a freindly easy to use enviroment. 2006 seems to be the year that real estate advertising is finally evolving in a big way, the question is how will win the turf wars?.

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Ummm, maybe you'all have not seen www.realestateadvisor.com but these guys were metasearching New York City 2 months ago and doing a dam good job of it

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Citycribs (formerly Citycrybs) is too expensive.