Date Archives March 2007

Trulia and Google bag another big one

Realogy (ERA, Century21, Coldwell Banker, Sotheby’s) is stepping to the plate:From a press release:Tomorrow, Realogy Corporation will announce a new online listing distribution strategy that will result in all CENTURY 21 listings becoming accessible through the Google and Trulia Web search portals….  This strategy is a fantastic point of differentiation from our competition….It’s a fact that over 58 percent of all Internet searches on “real estate” and related terms are conducted on Google and its search partner sites.  Meanwhile, Trulia.com is one of the fastest growing sites in the real estate category and reports that it refers over two million buyer visits to external listing sites each month.  Seventy percent of Trulia users surveyed indicated that they This is good for buyers of real estate, as both offer better searching capabilities and data display than many local MLSs, and good for sellers as it expands the reach of their Realtors’ marketing.

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Streetcar!

The discussion generated by this excellent story is quite worthwhile.  Read the whole thing.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if the street car does not tie into transit outside the City limits (do borders really matter so much?), and is not a part of a comprehensive plan, it will be a neat tourist attraction, with its own place on the tourist’s guide to Cville.  If I work up 29 North, or in Crozet to the west, or Lake Monticello to the east, how useful will the streetcar be?Without considering travel and settlement patterns, this will be a sadly futile exercise – with taxpayers’ dollars.

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