Real Estate Widgets are Here To Stay

Joel Burslem at futureofrealestatemarketing.com declared 2007 the year of the widget, but with trulia.com releasing two new widgets this week, it seems that they are still hanging around.

Trulia.com’s latest free widget releases have evolved from existing applications:

Trulia Snaphot widget – an image and map based way to show property listings.

TruliaMinistats widget – a small and simple widget that shows the median price change, in both absolute dollars and in percentage, for any city in the US.

They join the host of other property widgets such as mortgage calculators, property price or sales graphs, local area info charts, and polls.

1. Real Estate Advertising in US Newspapers Takes a Hammering

   I was recently alerted to an article on the Trulia Blogs about the decrease in newspaper real estate advertising revenue over the last 18 months. The article is based on the quarterly release of advertising expenditure by the Newspaper Association of America. What is interesting when looking at the results is that, on a quarterly basis, the spend on real estate advertising in papers is down for the 6th quarter in a row to levels not seen since 1996. Read on for more ......

2. What is The Future of Real Estate Search?

   How do you imagine the future of real estate search? It’s a big question, but one that needs answering! An essay competition from Onboard Informatics is seeking to uncover the answers....

3. nytimes.com Launches Real Estate API

   nytimes.com has announced a new real estate API that provides an information database for New York house hunters....

4. zillow.com’s Market Bottom Widget

   zillow.com have introduced a new, free widget designed to poll users on whether they believe the market has reached rock bottom yet, reflecting the global concern over current market conditions....

5. Nicaraguan Online Real Estate Market

   This is a guest post from Claudia Gonella, co-founder of Reveal Real Estate. She writes regularly on the state of the Nicaragua real estate market....