May 30 2013
SAN FRANCISCO--Trulia, a leading online marketplace for home buyers, sellers, renters, and real estate professionals, today released interactive map visualizations that show distinct new categories of information for house hunters to provide insight on the best place to live. The first new map is dedicated to rentals and visualizes rental cost-per-bedroom in cities across America, so that renters can easily pinpoint neighborhoods that are within their desired price range. The second set of maps visualizes historical earthquake and flood data to depict the risk of these natural disasters on a block-by-block level.
With today's launch across Android mobile and web platforms, rental prices and natural disasters join Trulia's robust suite of interactive visualizations, which already feature home values, crime, school rankings, commute times and local amenities such as banks, gas stations, restaurants and grocery stores.
"At Trulia, we use interactive map visualizations to present large amounts of information in an easy-to-understand format. With our new rental maps, consumers can browse through color-coded neighborhoods and quickly focus their search on neighborhoods that meet their budget," said Lee Clancy, VP of Consumer Products. "After considerable damage in recent years, many consumers likely feel as if the frequency and severity of natural disasters is increasing across the United States, but up until now the risk of these events has traditionally been hard for home buyers, sellers, and renters to find. Now house hunters can use our maps to see flood zones and understand where earthquakes are more common in order to make informed decisions about where to move."
Trulia's visualizations are accessible on the web by visiting http://www.trulia.com/local. Select a city and then utilize the menu on the left-hand side to see properties, home values, crimes, schools, commute times, amenities, rental rates and environmental risks of floods and earthquakes. On Android mobile, click on the layer icon in the upper right corner and select heat maps from the menu.
About Trulia, Inc.
Trulia (NYS: TRLA) gives home buyers, sellers, owners, and renters the inside scoop on properties, places, and real estate professionals. Trulia has unique info on the areas people want to live that can't be found anywhere else: users can learn about agents, neighborhoods, schools, crime, commute times, and even ask the local community questions. Real estate professionals use Trulia to connect with millions of transaction-ready buyers and sellers each month via our hyper-local advertising services, social recommendations, and top-rated mobile real estate apps. Trulia is headquartered in downtown San Francisco. Trulia is a registered trademark of Trulia, Inc.