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August 25, 2008
Trulia Rolls Out Three New Interactive Features
Real estate search engine Trulia today announced three new features to assist home buyers, sellers and agents. Personalized news feeds, mobile applications, and a blogging platform are now available to those in the home buying and selling process.
The personalized news feed can be found on Trulia's homepage and includes new property listings, home prices changes, upcoming open houses, median sales price trends, recently sold properties, relevant blogs and Q&As from our Trulia Voices Community.
New mobile apps are available for iPhone and iPod touch users as well as owners BlackBerry, Blackjack, Sony Ericsson, Nokia and many more mobile phones.
The iPhone/iPod touch app can search via price, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, square footage, color photos and local open house information. The app can detect location for the 3G phones based on the location-aware technology, or other users can simply input their location.
For other mobile phone users, you can use an interactive mobile map. Search options include property details, color photos and updated open house dates and times.
Trulia has also partnered with Dash Navigation to provide real estate search via their GPS device, Dash Express. The device is Internet-connected, providing users with real time search results.
Last but not least, the new blogging platform enables agents as well as home buyers and sellers to communicate about the real estate process. From home renovations to open houses, users can blog to their hearts desire, with the opportunity to reach Trulia's 5 million users right off the bat.
What do you think about Trulia's new features? Let us know in the comments.
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Posted by Nathania Johnson on August 25, 2008 10:21 AM
Comments
Hi Nathania!
Thanks for the coverage.
Since I work for Trulia, some may see my thoughts as biased, but hey, as I wear my consumer hat, I love our new features and have been beta testing them for over a month now. The iPhone app has been amazing and I have tested it while walking and driving in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City and New Jersey and have become addicted to it.
Our new community blog platform is exciting as well as it adds another level of functionality to both consumers and real estate agents to interact with each other. In fact, anyone with a free Trulia account can blog - home buyers, home sellers, neighbors, real estate enthusiasts, agents and even local businesses.....
The personalized home page news feed is really useful to me as I can quickly scan the latest info about the towns and cities I care about the most.
Rudy
Social Media Guru at Trulia
Rudy from Trulia.com August 25, 2008 11:53 AM
