Trulia® today launched a new product feature, What Locals Say, and a national advertising campaign to promote Trulia’s new mission: “Build a more neighborly world by helping you discover a place you’ll love to live.”
Trulia’s national ad campaign, “Insiders,” personifies Trulia through neighborhood insiders who take viewers on a neighborhood tour of the world beyond driveways and mailboxes. Trulia’s What Locals Say feature provides house hunters with neighborhood insights straight from locals. While reviews highlight what locals love about their neighborhood, the polls reveal whether most locals talk to their neighbors, see people walking their dogs around the block, decorate their homes for the holidays, can find easy parking, take care of their yards, and more.
Trulia is aiming to solve what it sees as an unmet need for rich neighborhood insights — everything from a home’s proximity to nearby parks and restaurants to getting a feel for the surrounding community. Through extensive consumer research conducted in 2017, Trulia found that 85% of home buyers who plan to buy within 18 months say that the neighborhood is equally or more important than the house. In fact, 76% of those same buyers said one of their drivers for moving was a neighborhood- or life stage-related reason, such as wanting a different lifestyle because of a baby or marriage, a shorter commute, or finding the right school for their children.
“More than 10 years ago, Trulia revolutionized the way people found homes by making real estate listings searchable online. Fast forward to 2018, house hunters now expect to see listings on the Internet,” said Tim Correia, senior vice president and general manager of Trulia. “We understand that neighborhoods matter. Our new mission will guide Trulia to deliver even more innovative products to help buyers and renters discover and understand what it’s really like to live in a home and neighborhood before they move in, much like a trusted friend or neighbor.”
This new feature is now available on Trulia’s for-sale and rental listings to help shed light on information that is not easily found elsewhere.
At launch, What Locals Say features more than seven million answered polls and written reviews by locals to give an authentic picture of what it’s like to live in a neighborhood. On average, locals are submitting about 100,000 poll responses and reviews a day, which will only continue to expand the feature’s reach to more neighborhoods across the country.
