Baron Briefs » dallas real estate http://blog.realtybaron.com Real estate news and commentary from RealtyBaron.com Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:57:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Real Estate Search: How does RealSearchâ„¢ stack up . . . ? http://blog.realtybaron.com/2007/01/09/real-estate-search-how-does-realsearch%e2%84%a2-stack-up/ http://blog.realtybaron.com/2007/01/09/real-estate-search-how-does-realsearch%e2%84%a2-stack-up/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:45:19 +0000 realtybaron http://blog.realtybaron.com/2007/01/09/real-estate-search-how-does-realsearch%e2%84%a2-stack-up/ …pretty good if you ask me. This morning, I searched for homes with asking prices between $250,000 and $500,000 in 13 metro areas and compared the size of RealtyBaron’s RealSearchâ„¢ results with two real estate search leaders, Trulia and Propsmart. The results surprised me:

trulia propsmart realtybaron search
Atlanta 1,462 1,496 2,693
Boston 242 498 1,240
Chicago 2,420 10,023 9,199
Dallas 744 332 1,950
Denver 411 1,358 1,186
Vegas 5,050 3,264 3,336
L.A. 369 2,686 4,023
Miami 1,950 8,770 10,375
Phoenix 2,128 6,802 4,063
Seattle 298 3,470 751
S.D. 1,038 3,238 5,519
S.F. 75 468 1,186
D.C. 603 720 2,374
**NOTE: 15% added to Trulia numbers to account for no FSBOs in results.

Was this a scientific comparison? No, because it doesn’t consider the quality of the listing data. For example, Trulia’s or Propsmart’s search algorithms may exclude listings from their index if the listing is missing data points A, B, and/or C. As a result, the total number of their results would be lower. Regardless, it was nice to visualize how RealtyBaron’s RealSearchâ„¢ sizes up against the incumbents.

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