It’s the time to celebrate for Trulia, craigslist and HotPads.com. Each of these well-known websites deals with different aspects of real estate industry and does also cater necessary info and development almost daily; they have found positions in PCMag.com’s “Top 100 Web Sites of 2009,” together with several other portals, applications and tools. All these are termed as essential for tech-savvy real estate professionals.
Take for instance Trulia. This very website is known for its stupendous listings and “heat maps” including graphical representations of housing market data. The website, thanks to all these features, was one of the preferred websites of real estate site of PCMag.com editors. There are other reasons for its selection too. Trulia has also climbed the rankings on a list of top real estate-related Web sites by means of market share maintained by Internet metrics company Hitwise. It did reach the fifth place in June.
The next one is craigslist. It did attain a position in the “Classics: Shopping” category of PCMag.com and one of the main reasons of its success was that it helps users to “hunt for a new house or apartment, buy and sell used stuff, and even find your long-lost love!” The other website that also made the “Classics: Info” list was user-generated rating site Yelp.
HotPads.com made it onto PCMag.com’s Top 100 in the “Undiscovered: Shopping” category. The site was selected on account of its “handy map full of listings for rentals, sales, foreclosures and even vacation rentals and hotels.”
Apart from this, the other top 100 Web sites and apps with potential real estate applications included Twitter, Facebook. While Twitter is a microblogging site, Facebook is a globally acclaimed social networking site. As per real estate professionals, this single website is of immense help as it presents a free venue to market their services.
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