Trulia headed for success, while Zillow going to flop? The Industry Standard…

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• Todd Carpenter says:

  March 31, 2008 at 10:16 pm

  I’d like to see how Zillow’s upcoming mortgage product performs before passing judgment on them.

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• Dustin says:

  March 31, 2008 at 10:45 pm

  I’m looking forward to Zillow’s upcoming mortgage product as well… It should definitely be interesting.

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• David G says:

  March 31, 2008 at 10:47 pm

  Thanks for the link Dustin; I just replied. I guess you can’t have every one of these go your way but man that Zillow profile was poorly researched. C’est la vie.

  Oh well – c’mon mortgages!

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• truliafan says:

  April 1, 2008 at 2:20 am

  In talking to a major franchisor recently, they revealed that they had the inside scoop that Trulia was generating revenues 3-4x what Zillow was doing. My conversation was this past month and the franchisor executive was basing it on his meetings with both companies in the second half of 2007.

  I’m not going to disclose whether this entity decided to distribute their listings with Trulia and/or Zillow as that would give it away.

  But clearly they were influenced by the long term viability of one of the companies and its business model versus the other.

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• Richard Dale-Mesaros says:

  April 1, 2008 at 4:40 am

  I wonder if Zillow and other similar sites anticipated that people lose interest in finding out what their home values are, once the market headed in the other direction – interesting.

  I’m curious to see if a similar fallout occurs with real estate investors – in theory, more investors ought to be diving in as the prices drop and deals are everywhere, right?

  I’m on the Board for the NH Real Estate Investor’s Association and we haven’t felt a drop in members, if anything we’re continuing to grow, although we’re a relatively new (4 yrs old) organization with 400 members. With the banks now offering deeply discounted packages of REO properties (finally), once these hit the market nationwide, we may see some even bigger drops in prices.

  Burn your TV….. go find a deal,

  Richard

  Chief Deal Weaver
  http://www.BlackWidowNetwork.com

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• Kenneth Fach says:

  April 1, 2008 at 6:19 am

  For me, as a real estate agent, I find that Trulia is more useful. I like the interactive map feature, and being able to target for sales and solds in any area of my community on the map. It is so user friendly.

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• Niki Scevak says:

  April 1, 2008 at 6:40 am

  Err, doesn’t anyone else find it ironic the Industry Standard is predicting what will succeed and fail?

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• Dustin says:

  April 1, 2008 at 10:05 am

  Niki: I think that’s my favorite part to the story!

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• Trulia v. Zillow: Who’s Hot, Who’s Not says:

  April 1, 2008 at 3:26 pm

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• Can rural real estate websites ever incorporate a Zillow-type mapping product for Denver corporate apartments? | BEH Class of 71 says:

  August 31, 2011 at 11:29 am

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