Eye Candy For Homes

Fri, Jun 13, 2008

We’re obsessed with information and eye candy here at Trulia.com. So we’re constantly looking for funky new ways to combine them to help you visualize your online home search, like these awesome new tools at Trulia Explore. Now you can browse homes like you’re flipping through a coffee table magazine, using Trulia Snapshot. Enter your city and then scroll through the priciest pads in your hood, find a great deal cross-country or browse your boss’s neighborhood, all at your leisure. Here are three examples to get you acquainted.

New York, NY
Eat your heart out Frank Sinatra. You’ve never seen the Big Apple like this before.

Tip: Tired of doing all the work? Press play (upper left), sit back and wait for your dream home to find you.

Boulder, CO
Have your morning coffee in the lush mountains of Colorado with the Rockies as your backdrop.
Tip: Switch between the Aerial and Road views using the green buttons in the upper right.

Miami, FL
Bienvenido a Miami… and the glittering turquoise ocean. Don’t be fooled by the big price tag, Miami has its fair share of great deals.

Tip: You can jump to a price range using the scroll bar or sort results by the tabs above the homes by most and least expensive or property list date.

Warning: Playing with Trulia Snapshot may lead to many unproductive hours at the office.

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