Roost jumps into real estate search scene
By Jessica Swesey, Wednesday, January 23, 2008.Bookmarking Sites
A new real estate search site rivaling the likes of Realtor.com, Trulia and Zillow, has pounced on the scene. Roost.com launched its public beta today.
The site appears to mirror Trulia in the way that property listings search results show photos, price and other basics, then lead consumers over to the brokers' Web sites for additional details.
The company is gathering listings via partnerships with brokers who have IDX data feeds in place, according to Roost's Web site.
The real estate listings aggregation space is quite crowded these days, but as Joel Burslem points out over at FOREM, it's never too late for a company to eye a space and think they can do it better. His case in point: Kayak.com, a search site in the travel vertical. Kayak launched much later than Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity and others, but ask anyone who's used it and they often say they are fanatics (among my sphere anyway).
An interesting connection between Kayak, Roost and the "latecomer" approach is that Greg Slyngstad, director of Kayak, sits on the board of Roost.
More later on how the site works with brokers and agents.
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Submitted by Anonymous on January 23, 2008 - 12:14pm.
Why is it that ex-online travel people think they can master online real estate?
Kayak-Roost
Expedia-Zillow
Some Euro Travel Site-Trulia
Where are the original online real estate gurus? Please stand up and be accounted for. You are being run over by invaders looking to eradicate Realtors.
Submitted by Anonymous on January 23, 2008 - 12:23pm.
Travelsnob -- just for the record, no one said anything about eradicating Realtors.
Submitted by Anonymous on January 23, 2008 - 12:37pm.
I noticed that TechCrunch had the first mention or comparison to Kayak - 3:24 AM.
Submitted by Anonymous on January 24, 2008 - 7:31am.
When you say "then lead consumers over to the brokers' Web sites for additional details" you know that they don't link to the actual listing agent.
All listings link to the "featured broker" which in San Diego is Prudential. Nice sleight-of-hand though, they ought to be magicians.
Submitted by Anonymous on January 24, 2008 - 2:16pm.
Just another way to get into the agents pocket for more change. Is it any wonder why people don't want to pay commission when these low-life companies steal our listing info and diseminate it over the web. People get paid large sums of money to sell and companies like this just give potential clients another excuse not to pick up the phone and be sold on something. I hope this company goes bust with the rest of the real estate industry. I took out the foul language to Inman doesnt delete what I really think of low-life companies like this.
Submitted by Anonymous on January 24, 2008 - 7:54pm.
Bunch of tech guys with an old idea, no innovation, and an incomplete set of listing data. Ditto Trulia.
Submitted by Anonymous on January 24, 2008 - 7:56pm.
Bunch of tech guys with an old idea, no innovation, and an incomplete set of listing data. Ditto Trulia.
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