Zillow to Acquire Trulia for $3.5B

Redfin, but they don't do anything outside of the big cities. (Redfin doesn't service my area, for example - while I used Trulia to look at the school boundary markers and occasionally to look at houses.)

Zillow's site is crap compared to Trulia. Hopefully they acknowledge that and bring Zillow's data onto Trulia's stack.

Re: Zillow to Acquire Trulia for $3.5B

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Post by krschultz » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 2:06 PM UTC

themartorana wrote: post #2

Does that leave any real competition in the space?

Real Estate agents. Craigslist to some extent.

Generally speaking the biggest competitor to any innovate website is the status quo and apathy. Every startup I have ever been in had a harder fight against people that were reluctant to move to better technology than against our direct competitors.

Re: Zillow to Acquire Trulia for $3.5B

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Post by rubyn00bie » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 2:17 PM UTC

themartorana wrote: post #2

Does that leave any real competition in the space?

Yes there is, but it hasn't gotten any HN love... :( it's called Househappy.org.

To really understand why it's different takes some knowledge of the industry. The biggest difference, the contact information on the listing is actually the broker who listed it! And it's free for anyone to post.

Oh... And it's the easiest to use! At least I think so :-D

Note: I work for Househappy

Re: Zillow to Acquire Trulia for $3.5B

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Post by nilkn » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 2:18 PM UTC

themartorana wrote: post #2

Does that leave any real competition in the space?

Direct sources.

Here in Houston, nobody uses Zillow because their data is not reliably up-to-date. The city has a custom solution: har.com. It's not as pretty, but it's what all the realtors in the city actually use.

Re: Zillow to Acquire Trulia for $3.5B

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Post by Eiriksmal » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 2:19 PM UTC

NDizzle wrote: post #6

themartorana wrote: post #2

Does that leave any real competition in the space?

Redfin, but they don't do anything outside of the big cities. (Redfin doesn't service my area, for example - while I used Trulia to look at the school boundary markers and occasionally to look at houses.) Zillow's site is crap compared to Trulia. Hopefully they acknowledge that and bring Zillow's data onto Trulia's stack.

Ugh, amen! Zillow's interface is horrendous, both from a user and programmatic/scraping standpoint. I've been relying on Trulia for ease of pointing queries at their results pages, so fingers crossed that some of Trulia's sanity trickles into the Zillow site. That article makes it seem doubtful that this will do anything other than beef up Zillow's stack with Trulia's data, though. =/