As a young company, we don’t often take the time to stop and reflect on the good things in the land of Trulia — the active users in our community that drive improvements to the product, the traditionalists of the real estate industry that have started to believe in what we are trying to do, and the big numbers that just look good on paper.
We are excited to share that we now have over 1 million “homes for sale” listings available on Trulia, property data for 60mm+ homes, and over the past 6 months we’ve been the fastest growing online real estate site in the US
How’d we do it? With an obsessive focus on the user experience and lots of learning along the way. There are a few simple beliefs that drive what we do over here, and as we take the time to mark this milestone, I thought I’d share these beliefs:
1) Help Consumers Search Smarter - we are focused on helping improve the home buying experience for users across the country. This means using technology to help people find their home online, understand real estate trends at the hyper local level, and make smarter decisions in the process. Here are some tools that we’ve created to date:
- Heat Maps – show price and popularity trends for 400+ cities across the country: ex. Denver, Colorado
- Buyers Guides – detailed data for every city and neighborhood across the country: ex. Lincoln Park, Chicago
- Advanced Search - search by neighborhood, school district or county.
- Google Earth - with our new Google Earth feature, you can house hunt in 3D
2) Quality Matters - our 1,000,000+ “homes for sale” listings come from thousands of brokers and agents across the country. We have relationships with 85 of the top 100 brokerage firms, and we are adding more each day. Why? Because having the highest quality information about every property in the US is a top priority for our users and for us. Want your listings on Trulia? Click here.
3)) Focus on the experience - it’s our mission to make sure the quality of the consumer experience on Trulia constantly improves. Whether it’s the time to load a page on Trulia, or making sure that a home buyer is connected directly with a home’s listing agent. This needs to get better every day.
Thanks for sharing this momentary celebration with us; now it’s time to get back to work!
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December 11th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Congratulations all at Trulia. They say the first million is the hardest. See you soon at 2 mil.