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Thanks to Katherine Boehret for reviewing Trulia on the Wall Street Journal’s Mossberg Solution - A Go-To Web Site for Buyers. By listening to the wants and needs of consumers and real estate agents, the entire team at Trulia works extremely hard to incorporate their feedback into the site. It’s all about creating the best user experience possible. Something that we are very happy to see paying off.

Some of the features that Katherine got a lot out of included:

• Neighborhood Maps - A granular look at neighborhoods
• Asking questions on Trulia Voices - Questions were answered within 20 minutes
• Trulia’s iPhone app for Open House Search - GPS enabled mobile real estate search
• Trulia Newsfeed  - Your real estate property and information RSS feed
• Email Alerts - Get Property, Open Houses, Trulia Voices Q&A and Search alerts at your convenience
• CompareIt! - A brand New Trulia feature where you can compare up to 5 properties side-by-side - Blog post coming later today.

Katherine said:

Another big plus to Trulia is Newsfeed, a list that shows up on the home page with content that’s automatically generated and personalized according to your past search locations. It is updated every day and spits out stats like the number of price reductions, open houses and new listings in an area. It shows an area’s average listing price, median sales price, number of foreclosures and average price per square foot, among other things. These data are a boon for people who don’t have the time or inclination to look this stuff up, and it aggregates the data into one intelligible, quick snapshot.

Although not a typical buyer, she tested many of Trulia’s features for a week from the perspective of someone who was just looking and provided some good feedback. We’re not perfect at Trulia, yet, and Katherine found some areas that we’re looking to improve upon such as listing freshness [we corrected the status of a sold listing she found], iPhone save functionality to your Trulia profile [this would be cool] and getting our comps module working in DC [working as of yesterday 2/18/09]. All in all, these are things that were already being worked on. Every little piece of feedback is valuable to us as it it helps us to better fine tune the site while we add more new user friendly tools and  functionality. More great things to come……

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