Arn Cenedella

Do Zillow or Trulia have all the real estate listings on their sites?

Jay Thompson the Phoenix Real Estate Guy took a look at how many listings Trulia, Zillow and Realtor.com are posted on their sites compared to the IDX mls search his blog site provides. It turns out that at least in the Phoenix area Trulia has 64% and Zillow 87% and Realtor.com 94% of the listings that appear on Jay’s IDX mls search site.

This week I will run the numbers for some cities in the San Francisco Peninsula and see what they show.

My site provides my clients and readers access to the Diverse Solutions IDX Search - check it out. Diverse has many cool features including Google Street views and the ability to search by WalkScore.

Trulia and Zillow both provide lots of good useful information to home buyers and sellers.

That being said, it is important for a prospective home buyer to know that Trulia and Zillow do not provide information on ALL available listings.

This entry was posted on Monday, April 13th, 2009 at 6:35 am and is filed under Helpful Sites, New listings, zillow. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

1. Joseph Ferrara.Sellsius said at April 15th, 2009 at 7:46 am

   Yes, this is true.

   Trulia and Zillow (both media companies selling ads) will tout their number of listings and monthly visitors but NOT their local MLS coverage.

   Why? Because of the headline of your post — and it’s not good for their business. This cat was let out of the bag on Techcrunch
   http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/22/how-accurate-are-listings-on-real-estate-sites/

   Certainly the public would benefit from knowing whether to waste time on Trulia searching Phoenix when they have only 67% of the IDX/MLS listings but Trulia is not into that kind of transparency. Maybe that’s the difference between a media company and a real estate one– one serves the advertiser, one serves the consumer.

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