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San Francisco’s mayor Gavin Newsom, recently unlocked city data, giving us access to everything from police records to restaurant inspection reports and even lists of every street tree planted in San Francisco (and when!).   It’s all part of the recently launched DataSF.org, and he wants our help with this effort.

In an effort to assist home buyers, sellers and residents, he’s now asking the Trulia Voices community:





When deciding where to live, what local information do you want at your fingertips?








His office will be tracking your input closely – so make your voice heard! Not only will your answers help the Mayor work towards a more transparent and open government, but it will also create new job opportunities as people come up with ideas on how they can best use this never before available information to create new products and services.

Hopefully other government officials will take the lead from the White House and Mayor Newsom to adopt this open government policy and allow the citizens to innovate away!

If you are a Trulia Pro, you might have noticed something extra special on your listings - now in addition to featured placement on search results pages to ensure more exposure for your listings and customizable Spotlight Ads to promote your personal brand, blog or an open house - we’ve given your listings a whole new look.

The new page highlights your contact information and has a much larger call to action compared to other listings on Trulia.  How much is it per listing, you ask? Whether you have 1 listing or 15, Trulia Pro is the same price - $39/month or $29/month for an annual subscription.

Good thing Maureen likes it

- Heather Fernandez - VP, Marketing

We’re very excited to announce a partnership with washingtonpost.com ( “WP”), one of the top newspaper Web sites  in the nation (around 12 million visitors/month) and part of The Washington Post Company!

WP has an outstanding reputation for journalistic integrity and is recognized as a trusted source for local, national and world news and information.   In addition, they’ve readily embraced innovative multimedia technologies and formats to provide their users with an award-winning experience (it shows – according to compete.com, their visitor traffic has grown almost 60% over the last year).

What does this mean for washingtonpost.com’s users? A great user experience for WP’s real estate audience. Trulia will be powering WP’s real estate search via our Trulia Publisher Platform, so now their users can search for homes in the DC market and millions more throughout the nation using Trulia’s innovative user interface.  And of course, WP users will have the use of our cool interactive tools like local heat maps, price trend graphs, sold property stats and other new features to come.

What does this mean for our real estate industry partners? More exposure to a highly qualified audience of buyers and sellers. WP users are a highly engaged, educated, influential and affluent group, and all of our industry partners will benefit from exposure to this quality audience.  Since the listings remain on Trulia’s platform, industry partners can be assured that, as always, they’ll be managed to our high standards.

What does this mean for Trulia? New opportunities to partner with additional forward-thinking media companies. We think that WP’s selection of Trulia as its real estate partner is a strong endorsement of our effective no-cost publisher solutions and a publisher’s local presence and expertise.  This powerful combination drives greater audience engagement and produces more revenue opportunities for the publisher.   We are proud to welcome washingtonpost.com into the family of more than 100 sites now using our platform.

In summary: We look forward to more partnerships like this where everyone wins – Publishers benefit from our free platform that they can monetize, users benefit by having access to a best-of-breed real estate experience, advertisers are able to reach a wider audience and our industry partners have their listings in front of a larger consumer base that is interested in buying or selling a home!

- Keith Louie, Director of Business Development