Ask HN: Where does Trulia get its listings?

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Does anyone know where Trulia gets it's listings from? I've been looking and reading but haven't been able to find anything substantive.

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This page explains most of it: http://www.trulia.com/submit_listings/

Listings are either: individually entered by agents, fed to Trulia in an XML format by real estate firms (or other aggregators) or screen scraped by Trulia. They also I think have deals with some MLSs to bulk send them listings for member firms.

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Thanks, we work hard at it :)

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