Zillow Said to Be Seeking to Buy Rival Real-Estate Site Trulia

Re:Zillow Said to Be Seeking to Buy Rival Real-Estate Site T... by zyxley on Thursday July 24, 2014 @03:02PM (#8081497)

> But I don't understand what Zillow brings to the table.

As an end user (albeit a window shopper so far), the map-based searching on both Zillow and Trulia is really nice. Map-based searching on Redfin feels kind of clunky and slow by comparison.

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Re:Zillow Said to Be Seeking to Buy Rival Real-Estate Site T... by jwcooper on Thursday July 24, 2014 @03:26PM (#8081602)

Problem is the data is so sketchy on Trulia and Zillow. I'd be interested in a house only to find out it already had a contingent offer accepted. They need to figure out how to get realtime data from the MLS systems.

Trulia and Zillow do have the best meta-data on houses though. School info, crime, purchase history, walk scores, etc.

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Re:Zillow Said to Be Seeking to Buy Rival Real-Estate Site T... by davepeck on Thursday July 24, 2014 @03:42PM (#8081687)

(A lot of the metadata data is provided through third parties. For example, walk scores are provided via... well, Walk Score, a Seattle startup. http://www.walkscore.com/professional/walk-score-apis.php)

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Re:Zillow Said to Be Seeking to Buy Rival Real-Estate Site T... by smackfu on Thursday July 24, 2014 @04:51PM (#8082114)

Honestly, this depends totally on whether you are in a hot real estate market or not. If homes tend to be on the market 30 days, scraping MLS data is OK. If homes tend to be on the market 3 days, not so much.

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