trulia.com Founders on Top 10 Newsmakers List

As part of the annual Swanepoel TRENDS Report that is published each February in the US, the top 10 Newsmakers in Real Estate list is compiled by the company’s research team.

Representing the world of property portals on the top 10 Newsmakers list for 2008 are trulia.com’s founders, Pete Flint and Sami Inkinen, who came in at number nine.

Author of the list, Stefan Swanepoel, blogged about the Top 10, saying of trulia.com:

“As founders of Trulia these two leaders, in spite of the current financial difficulties and the market downturn, continue to go against that flow and have raised funding in the amount of $33 million, which solidifies Trulia as a dotcom company that could survive the economic and/or Web 2.0 downturn to become one of the new paradigm companies to shape the future”.

At number one on the list is William Foley, founder and CEO of Fidelity National Financial (FNF). The company’s real estate division, Fidelity National Real Estate Solutions, provides real estate information, media and technology for homeowners and professionals, including the cyberhomes.com portal.

At number seven is Saul Klein, CEO of Point2 Technologies. And at number eight is Charles McMillan, the 2009 President of the National Association of REALTORS.

Newsmakers are defined by the company as those people that during the year made headlines as individuals, as a result of their actions and leadership of the companies or associations they are involved with in the real estate industry.

The second list to be released is the Top 10 Events Impacting on Real Estate for 2008. Among the key events for 2008 are: the election, ActiveRain reaching 100,000 members, twitter, NAR celebrating 100 years and, of course, the bailout, which comes top of the list.

Find out more about the Swanepoel TRENDS Report at their website: retrends.com

Cyberhomes Media Group Uptake

After successfully launching home search and valuation site cyberhomes.com in 2006, a new entity, the Cyberhomes Media Group was set up in May 2008 to help advertisers and publishers reach the huge, highly targeted real estate audience.

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Top 100 Sites Include trulia & cyberhomes

PC Magazine has listed both trulia.com and cyberhomes.com as part of their annual Top 100 Websites for 2008.

Real estate search engine trulia.com was honoured in the “classic” website category, alongside bloomberg.com (news) and indeed.com (job hunting) in the money and real estate section.

“This excellent real estate site lets you select a neighborhood or town and browse homes for sale on a Google Map. Search for foreclosures in your area, get community stats and pricing trends, and get home-buying advice from the Trulia community pages”, write PC Magazine.

Real estate information website cyberhomes.com was honoured in the “undiscovered” website category, alongside stockhouse.com (investment), glassdoor.com (employer and salary reviews) and billshrink.com (price comparison), also in the money and real estate section.

PC Magazine say:

“Cyberhomes has all the usual real-estate-site features, but adds a ton of nifty functionality to help you find not just the right home, but the right neighborhood, too. Get info and ratings for local schools, mine demographic data to find a neighborhood with (or without) children, or even search for a neighborhood by affluence. You can also track individual home prices and average price trends in the area.”

No other property portals or search engines were highlighted by PC Magazine.

Earlier this year, zillow.com was singled out by Webware in their “100 best web apps” vote.