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Trulia Reports Outstanding Growth and Increased Momentum in 2008
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SAN FRANCISCO, CA, January 6 / MARKET WIRE/ --
Trulia, Inc. (www.trulia.com), the best
place to start your real estate
search, set major new benchmarks for company growth in 2008. From its
launch just three years ago, Trulia has grown into one of the Top 5 Real
Estate sites on the web according to October's ComScore numbers. Last year
was Trulia's largest ever with a total of more than 42 million unique
visitors searching for homes, tracking
trends and participating on Trulia Voices.
During the past year, Trulia has achieved significant year-over-year
increases in all key performance measurements. Two impressive growth
benchmarks include 42 million unique users in 2008, a 140% increase from
one year ago and 430 million total page views, according to internal
Ominiture data. One of the biggest successes of the past year is the way
the industry has embraced Trulia and its products and services. There are
now more than 335,000 registered real estate professionals on Trulia.com.
Trulia's community also
experienced significant growth in 2008 as consumers were doing more
research and had more questions than ever. The community had 420,000
contributions, an increase of 420%, making it the largest and most active
real estate community on the web. On average, questions are answered
within 20 minutes and each question generates more than 4 responses from
real estate professionals and consumers.
2008 was also a year of innovation at Trulia. Throughout the course of the
year Trulia introduced:
-- Trulia Mobile - the Trulia iPhone application has been downloaded more
than 125,000 times making it the most popular real estate application on
the iPhone. Trulia also works on multiple smart phones and on the Dash GPS
navigation system.
-- New Widgets - Trulia Voices, an easy way to show off your answers from
Trulia Voices on your own blog or website and TruliaSnapshot, an
experimental way to view listings that can be added to a website or blog
for free.
-- More than 100 Trulia Publishing Platform installations - sites like
USNews.com are using the hosted technology solution that gives Web
publishers the ability, completely free of charge, to create co-branded
online real estate sections powered by Trulia's search technology.
-- Trulia Blogs - a free, easy and collaborative environment, empowering
consumers and real estate professionals to share their voices on an easy to
use blog platform.
-- Homepage Newsfeed - Trulia's homepage now displays a local news feed
featuring customized real estate news to help consumers access up-to-the
minute information that relates directly to the cities that they care
about.
Industry Recognition:
Lastly, Trulia was recognized by multiple publications and organizations
during the last year, including:
-- People's Choice Webby Award in the real estate category
-- PC Magazine's Top 100 Classic Websites
-- Laptop Magazine's Top 50 Web Tools
-- Inman News' Top 100 Influential Real Estate Leaders
-- #1 Real Estate Lead Generator - during the month of October, an
independent study conducted by the nation's premier network for listing
asset management, Threewide Corporation, analyzed approximately
600,000 listings sent from MLSs and brokers to 17 of the largest real
estate sites. It revealed that Trulia is the #1 real estate lead generator
as well as #1 in visitors sent to listing broker and agent sites through
the Threewide ListHub service.
"Looking back at 2008, we are really proud of the service we have built.
We secured an additional 15 million in funding, worked with more than 100
new advertisers including Home Depot and State Farm, built the #1
downloaded real estate application for the iPhone, grew our registered base
to more than 300,000 agents and were used by more than 42 million unique
individuals," said Pete Flint, CEO and co-founder, Trulia.com. "With the
economy still facing wild swings and consumer confidence shaky, consumers
thirst for information and knowledge will continue to grow. Cutting edge
agents that have embraced Web 2.0 tools and techniques will continue to
connect with users online and find consumers that are engaged and ready to
purchase."
About Trulia, Inc.
Trulia, Inc. (http://www.trulia.com/), a
residential real estate search engine and the fastest-growing U.S. real
estate Web site (comScore), 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
approximately 5 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 that
enables consumers and professionals to exchange information about their
local markets. For more information, visit http://www.trulia.com/.
Media Contact:
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