Real Estate Search: How does RealSearchâ„¢ stack up . . . ?
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007…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:
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|---|---|---|---|
| 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.