Edges out the competition by offering national and local real estate market
data and personalized expert advice on buying, selling a home
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulia (http://www.trulia.com), the
fastest growing residential real estate search engine, today announced that it
is now one of the top 10 most-visited real estate website in the US, according
to the most recent report released by comScore Networks Inc., an independent
Internet audience measurement and consulting company. Trulia also pulled ahead
of valuation site Zillow.com in the number of unique visitors to the site, as
well as overall audience reach, according to the report.
Trulia has climbed 17 places in comScore's rankings to become the seventh
most-popular real estate brand for the month of December 2007 -- ahead of
other real estate sites such as AOL Real Estate, HouseValues and ZipRealty.
The total number of unique visitors to Trulia.com has nearly tripled in the
past 12 months from 579,000 to more than 1.6 million in December 2007.
According to Trulia's internal traffic monitoring systems, between 3 and 4
million users will visit Trulia.com in January 2008.
"Our rapid growth over the past year underscores that consumers will
continue to research their home buying decisions at Trulia -- even in a down
market -- because we provide unique tools and objective insights that people
can use to help them make the smartest possible decisions about real estate,"
said CEO Pete Flint. "While the overall housing market outlook is uncertain,
we're seeing tremendous growth across all areas of the business as we help
millions of consumers, our real estate partners and advertisers when they need
us most."
Trulia offers a comprehensive range of free tools to help navigate the
current housing market at a national and local level:
-- search for homes for sale, recently sold homes, foreclosures and new
homes;
-- city and neighborhood real estate guides with housing statistics and
trends;
-- nationwide property database of between 60 and 70 million homes;
-- an online community to ask and answer housing related questions; and
-- email alerts when new properties are on the market, sell or change in
price
Trulia also recently launched the Trulia Publishing Platform where
publishers are able to create free customized versions of Trulia for their own
site. More information at http://www.trulia.com/publishers.
About Trulia
Trulia, Inc. (http://www.trulia.com), a residential real estate search
engine and the fastest-growing U.S. real estate Web site, has revolutionized
online home search by offering a rich, intuitive user experience that points
consumers directly to listings on agent and broker Web sites. By partnering
with the real estate industry, including 93 of the top 100 largest U.S.
brokers, Trulia helps more than 3 million unique visitors per month find
information on homes for sale using custom search criteria. The site also
provides market trends and neighborhood data at the hyper-local level, as well
as Trulia Voices, a real estate Q&A community which enables consumers and
professionals to exchange information about their local markets. Headquartered
in San Francisco, Trulia is backed by Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital and
Fayez Sarofim & Co. For more information, go to http://www.trulia.com.
Media contact
Melissa Carter
Trulia, Inc.
melissa@trulia.com
415-648-4358 ext 145
SOURCE Trulia, Inc.
Melissa Carter of Trulia, Inc., +1-415-648-4358, ext. 145, melissa@trulia.com
