real estate
Trulia Launches Trulia Suggests, A Recommendation Engine For Real Estate
Trulia, the popular real estate search engine, just launched the beta of Trulia Suggests, a personalized real estate recommendation engine. The typical search experience on virtually every online real estate…
Redfin Launches Offer Insights To Show You Real Time Data On Real Estate Bidding Wars
Online real estate broker Redfin just launched a new feature called Offer Insights, which not only tells you what houses are on the market, but also what the actual purchase…
RoomHunt Wants To Become The Kayak And Match.com Of Rental Sites
RoomHunt, which is launching today, wants to become the go-to aggregator for rental listings, starting with the competitive San Francisco market. The Web has changed how we search for long-term…
After 5M iOS Downloads, House Remodeling Platform Houzz Launches Its Android App
Houzz is one of those quiet success stories that have the potential to completely change their niches. At its core, the service lets you browse beautiful pictures of home remodeling…
Zillow Launches Free Property Management Websites For Rental Pros Without Their Own Web Presence
It’s no secret that real estate site Zillow has been putting quite a bit of emphasis on the rental side of the housing market recently. Today, the company is expanding…
Real Estate App Open Home Pro Expands Beyond Open Houses, Now Lets Realtors Post Listings From Their iPhones
Open Home Pro, a startup that began as an iPad application allowing realtors to collect info from potential buyers at open houses, is today launching a new app for iPhone.…
42Floors Raises $5M From Dave McClure, Alexis Ohanian, Others, Expands Office Search Site To New York
Ask any founders or CEO how they feel about the process of searching for office space for their companies, and the majority of them will shake their heads. Some may…
Backed By Google & Eric Schmidt, HomeLight Launches A New Way To Find The Best Real Estate Agents
You’ve heard this story before: Person sets out to find an apartment or buy their first home. Person struggles to navigate the noise of Craigslist, manage applications, impressions, notes, scheduling…
In Its First Report Since Going Public, Trulia Posts First Profitable Quarter, Record Revenue
How are the recent class of tech IPOs faring? Real estate search engine and Zillow competitor, Trulia went public in September, debuting at $22.10 per share (up 30 percent from…
CompStak Knows Exactly How Much Your Office Should Cost, Raises $565K And Joins 500 Startups
CompStak’s data is wildly valuable. Without paying a penny, its crowdsourced real estate info platform has compiled the rent, size, and more of 40% of Manhattan commercial leases over the last…
If Silicon Valley Stocks Are Down, Why Are Home Prices Up?
Editor’s note: Glenn Kelman, is CEO of Redfin, a technology-powered real estate broker, backed by Greylock Partners and Madrona Venture Group, with more than $7 billion of home sales. He previously co-founded…
BlockAvenue Uses Big Data To Assign A Letter Grade To Your Neighborhood
BlockAvenue, which is launching today, has acquired and aggregated about 50 million data points from across the U.S. to assign a letter grade to virtually every neighborhood and city block…
HomeSnap Maker Raises $3.5M For Real Estate App That Uses iPhone Camera To “See” The House In Front Of You
Sawbuck Realty, the makers of that clever mobile app called HomeSnap, which lets users access MLS and public record data just by taking a picture of any U.S. home, has…
3D Startup Real5D Raises $1.2m To Let You Walk Around Construction Plans
3D visualization technology has been around for some time, so Real5D closing a $1.2 million Seria A rund from the U.S. venture fund DoubleRock might look out of place to…
San Francisco Vs. Silicon Valley: Where Should You Build Your Business?
When Mark Zuckerberg left Harvard in the summer of 2004, he didn’t move his fledgling company to the mountains, or the Gulf of Mexico, or San Francisco, he moved to…
In UK Online Property Landgrab, Zoopla Will Power Listings For Lebedev’s Independent, Evening Standard
Hot on the heels of completing its acquisition of Findaproperty last week, Zoopla is increasing its online real estate inventory once again: it will operate the property portals for the…
Zillow Completes Its $40M RentJuice Acquisition
Zillow, the popular online real estate search engine, just announced that it has closed its previously announced $40 million acquisition of RentJuice. With RentJuice, Zillow now owns a rental relationship…
Real Estate Search Company Trulia Brings Its Rentals App To iPhone
Real estate search company Trulia is adding to its mobile lineup today with the launch of Trulia Rentals for iPhone. The app joins its Android rentals-only counterpart, which launched back in September.…
42Floors Takes Commercial Real Estate Online (Because Searching For Office Space Sucks)
Jason Freedman, co-founder of the new YC-backed startup 42Floors launching today, says he got the idea for the startup because “searching for office space just really, really sucked.” The reason…
Sawbuck Realty, an online real estate broker, has just launched a new app called HomeSnap which lets you discover information about any home nationwide just by taking a photo of…
Pixloo Helps You Sell Your Home With Free Virtual Tours, Exports To Zillow, Trulia & More
In December, Eric covered Open Home Pro, a startup that lets realtors sell homes via their iPads. Today, there comes a similar effort from Pixloo, except this service is designed for…
Evolve Vacation Rental Brings White-Glove Service To Online Listings
Vacation homes sit empty most of the year, representing a huge amount of untapped inventory waiting to be discovered online. Large services such as HomeAway, VRBO, and TripAdvisor’s FlipKey are…
StreetEasy Adds New York Real Estate Broker Ratings
Brokers are not all the same. Some can pull a little extra cash out of a house and some are good at the fast sell. Some will try to force…
Nuroa, real estate search engine, secures another million euros
Nuroa, a real estate vertical search engine launched in Spain in 2007, has secured an additional €1 million from Highgrowth Ventures, their investor from a previous round in 2007. The…
A man in Italy bought the small Texas town of Albert on eBay for $3.8 million on Friday. That’s awesome. I wish I had my own town. Lucky jerk. Good…