The Best of our Blogs: Oct 24-28 2011
This week you’ve been carving pumpkins, doing candy runs to the drug store and perfecting your apple bobbing technique. We couldn’t blame you if you missed some of our great posts this week. So here’s the best of this week, all in one place for you. Happy Halloween!
- The Glamorous Life of a Real Estate Agent – Volume 2: Cops & Robbers
- Date your buyer – 6 tips from Match.com
- The Most Expensive Home in America’s Most Expensive Zip Code: 07620
- Tech Titan Larry Ellison Selling $19M Home in Woodside
Happy Halloween!
Ok, so it’s not Halloween yet, but did you really think that was going to stop us? We LOVE Halloween here at Trulia, because we never miss an opportunity to let our freak flags fly. Check out photos of some of our best costumes from today by checking out our Facebook photo album. Watch this space for more photos from our fashion show later on today. Happy Halloween everybody!
Join Team Trulia for Movember!
Here at Trulia we love to support a good cause, especially when there’s an opportunity to do so in an unconventional way. That’s why we’ve embraced the Movember movement that encourages men to sport a moustache during the month of November to help raise awareness and funds for men’s health.
Last year 24 Trulia employees participated in the event and raised $2,486.34, but this year we’re aiming a lot higher and have a goal to raise $10,000 for the cause.
We have a lot more employees than we did last year, but $10k is still a mighty big goal, and we need your help to get there. That’s right! We’re inviting you to join Team Trulia and participate in Movember.
Though only males can cultivate the coveted facial fur for the event, both men and women can participate and register to collect donations, and women can also do their part by encouraging the men in their lives to participate.
Why Join Team Trulia for Movember
- It’s fun!
- It’s a great excuse not to shave for a whole month!
- Tom Selleck & Colin Farrell. Need we say more?
- It’s trendy – Check out the latest Movember tweets.
- You’ve always wanted to sport one of these creative moustache styles.
- It’s an ingenious way to show the world that you care!
- We’ll showcase your awesome ‘stache on our blog!
How to Join the Team Trulia for Movember
1. Click here and select Join My Team.
2. Enter your details or register through Facebook.
3. Prepare to put a smile and a ‘stache on your mug for Movember and help change the face of men’s health!
0 commentsJoin Team Trulia for Movember!
Here at Trulia we love to support a good cause, especially when there’s an opportunity to do so in an unconventional way. That’s why we’ve embraced the Movember movement that encourages men to sport a moustache during the month of November to help raise awareness and funds for men’s health.
Last year 24 Trulia employees participated in the event and raised $2,486.34, but this year we’re aiming a lot higher and have a goal to raise $10,000 for the cause.
We have a lot more employees than we did last year, but $10k is still a mighty big goal, and we need your help to get there. That’s right! We’re inviting you to join Team Trulia and participate in Movember.
Though only males can cultivate the coveted facial fur for the event, both men and women can participate and register to collect donations, and women can also do their part by encouraging the men in their lives to participate.
Why Join Team Trulia for Movember
- It’s fun!
- It’s a great excuse not to shave for a whole month!
- Tom Selleck & Colin Farrell. Need we say more?
- It’s trendy – Check out the latest Movember tweets.
- You’ve always wanted to sport one of these creative moustache styles.
- It’s an ingenious way to show the world that you care!
- We’ll showcase your awesome ‘stache on our blog!
How to Join the Team Trulia for Movember
1. Click here and select Join My Team.
2. Enter your details or register through Facebook.
3. Prepare to put a smile and a ‘stache on your mug for Movember and help change the face of men’s health!
0 commentsThe Best of our Blogs: Oct 17-21 2011
You’re a busy person, and with so many Trulia blogs filled with fun and useful information, it can be hard to keep up. To help out, we’ve taken the best from this week and put it all in one place for you. Have a great weekend!
- Join Team Trulia for Movember to support men’s health!
- The Glamorous Life of a Real Estate Agent: Insect Encounters
The Best of our Blogs: Oct 17-21 2011
You’re a busy person, and with so many Trulia blogs filled with fun and useful information, it can be hard to keep up. To help out, we’ve taken the best from this week and put it all in one place for you. Have a great weekend!
- Join Team Trulia for Movember to support men’s health!
- The Glamorous Life of a Real Estate Agent: Insect Encounters
Trulia Blogs Weekly Highlights: Oct 10-14 2011
We’ve got several blogs bringing you the latest and greatest in real estate news and analysis. But what if you missed something? Don’t panic! We’ve got you covered. Check out what we’ve been up to this week right here:
- Good News on Jobs and The Hard Truth about Low-Risk, High Returns on Home Investment
- New Battle of the Sexes Infographic: Settling the Men vs. Women in Real Estate debate
- Price Reduction Tools: Connecting sellers with the right price
- How to optimize your profile for Trulia’s Professional directory
- Former Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel lists $12.75M Beverly Hills home
- Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fischer renting out LA home for $10,995 a month
Big Congrats to Trulia’s Fearless Leaders
It’s been a big week for Trulia’s cofounders Pete Flint and Sami Inkinen, who both earned some amazing honors that we just had to brag about!
Cofounder and CEO Pete Flint has been recently awarded one of San Francisco Business Times’ 2011 “Most Admired CEOs” in the cateorgy of “Rising Star.” Pete’s hard work, leadership and business acumen has been recognized by one of SF’s distinguished local business publications and we’re happy to celebrate this major award alongside Pete when he’s honored at a gala on November 15 at Hilton Union Square.
This was also a week of amazing accomplishment for Sami Inkinen, Trulia’s cofounder and President. A dedicated and accomplished athlete, Sami had his best finish ever at his 5th consecutive Ironman in Kona, Hawaii. This time, he finished the Ironman course in under 9 hours, making him 37th in the world and a silver medalist in his age group.
Every week, Truliamazing things happen across our organization, and it’s usually Pete or Sami calling out the stellar work of an individual or group within the company. This week, we’re calling them out for their Truliamazing accomplishments. Trulia couldn’t be more proud of our guys Pete and Sami and all the hard work that they’ve put in to achieve these amazing feats. Thanks for inspiring us everyday to be the best Trulians we can be!
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Large Maps Get An Upgrade and Custom Search Launches
The home search experience on the desktop just got a whole lot better, with the launch of a large map and custom search. With these new map upgrades, a large map can now fit the entire size of your monitor so you can really visualize for-sale, rent or off-the-market homes. We show every home in the neighborhood, regardless of the home’s status.
We’re also excited to announce custom search. A whopping 73% of respondents in a recent survey said searching within custom map boundaries is the #1 most desired feature. You’ve asked, and we delivered.
By clicking on the custom draw tool in the top right-hand corner of the map, you can pick the area in which you search for homes.
Want to live in a certain neighborhood but want to stay away from a freeway or be close to a park? You can now set those parameters with custom search.
With custom search, we’ve built in two great features. The first is the ability to save that search and revisit it at a later date. We’ve also added in the ability to add an alert for that custom area. When a new home pops up for sale or rent within the parameters you defined, you’ll be the first to know!
So head on over to the new large map and start customizing your searches!
0 commentsTrulia Releases The Inside Scoop on the Real Estate Industry’s Online Listing Quality
One of the most common complaints from consumers and real estate professionals about searching for homes online is that many online property listings have out-of-date or incorrect data. Most frequently, basic listing information like price and status are incorrect. This past March, Trulia launched Trulia Direct Reference to help solve this problem. After evaluating the data quality of more than 1.2M listings received from more than 250 data sources, we’ve identified the primary sources for erroneous online listing data.
The need for this analysis arose after we surveyed approximately 1000 consumers and real estate professionals about the online home search experience. Both groups agreed that their primary concern with online real estate is the quality of the listings. Most complaints about online listings revolved around the status of listings being outdated (e.g. pending) or the price often being incorrect.
Trulia compared more than 1.2 million listings received from various sources against MLS Data, and found more than 69 percent of the errors stemmed from 3rd party syndicators of non-MLS data. All other industry feeds when combined only accounted for 31% of the listing errors Trulia receives in its feeds.
Out of more than 120k listing inaccuracies, we found the following: 51 percent contained price errors, 41 percent contained status errors and 8% contained both. Through our Direct Reference program, Trulia has been able to identify these errors and notify brokers, agents and MLS’s about the data sources they should consider correcting. Trulia Direct Reference provides the ability to identify where the errors are originating and then the information to correct them at the source.
The results from this study show that MLS’s have the potential to significantly reduce the proliferation of erroneous listing data when they syndicate listings directly on behalf of all their members.
If you would like to learn more about how you can participate in Trulia Direct Reference and directly syndicate your listings to Trulia, please contact us at Truliadirect@trulia.com
(To download a PDF copy of this report, click here.)
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