Trulia Brings the Heat With A Brand New App for Kindle Fire

We couldn’t be more excited about the launch of one of the most buzzed about new products of the year - the Amazon Kindle Fire. When we first heard about the Kindle Fire, we knew we had to bring Trulia onto the Amazon platform. After weeks of hard work by our talented mobile engineering team, Trulia is excited to announce our new addition - a brand new app for the Kindle Fire called Trulia Real Estate HD.

Trulia’s new tablet app comes alive on the Kindle Fire’s vibrant color touchscreen and extra-wide viewing angle to give users an incredible search experience.

When you launch the Trulia Real Estate HD app on Kindle Fire, you’ll see a bold and beautiful home screen where you can begin your home search. The full-color tablet experience utilizes the entire screen to display helpful search filters and beautiful property photos, making searching for properties easy and efficient.

Here’s the rundown on the Trulia Real Estate HD App’s features:

Search Filter: Personalize your search from step one by setting filters and search parameters, guaranteeing that you only sort through properties that fit your needs.Full-Screen Slideshows: Unique to the Kindle Fire, use photos gallery search to view big, beautiful property slideshows on the tablet’s entire screen.Save Your Searches: Save your favorite properties and searches to your MyTrulia account, synced to www.trulia.com and across all of your Trulia devices automatically.More Information Instantly: Contact the listing agent to get more details or schedule a showing; Share good finds with friends and family. Start your search on the big, beautiful home screen

See property details on the fullscreen view

See search results in a stunning list view

Filters help you find your best place to live

Trulia Real Estate HD is available now at the Amazon Appstore for Android here

See Trulia’s entire mobile app roster here

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Real Estate Sold: Outer Sunset: Fixer Brings In 31K Over Asking Price

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Thursday, September 29, 2011, by Philip Ferrato

[1218 44th Avenue via Google Streetview]

Price a property correctly and it will sell. Priced perfectly, it will sell for over the asking price, as in the case of 1218 44th Avenue, the 2-bed, 1-bath fixer with a huge yard that went on the market in late June for $399,000 and closed escrow yesterday for $430,000. In the family/surfer/hipster-friendly Outer Sunset, the listing garnered some comments, including one from the realtor complaining about our 300K estimate for a stylish renovation:

You obviously don't understand the demographics of the Outer Sunset or what construction costs are. $300,000 worth of construction costs??? I will have multiple offers tomorrow. Thank you, Kevin Birmingham (Listing Agent).

We're not sure what he means by "demographics" but in a city as politically correct as San Francisco, it sounds like code for something. As for construction costs, when you factor in all the associated expenses of renovation in this town, we'll stick to our number if it's all done with permits. Plus wonder if 1218 44th Avenue has a future date with Planning Commission staff. Kudos to all- to Kevin for getting a great price for his client and to the buyer for snagging a house in a great location- for under $500K.
· Outer Sunset: Sustainable Agriculture For Surfers [Curbed SF]
· 1218 44th Avenue [Redfin]

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Too Sexy For My Storefront: Haighteration brings us an updated list...

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Thursday, May 5, 2011, by Abby Pontzer

Haighteration brings us an updated list of the sexiest vacant storefronts in the Lower Haight. Many of the top contenders from a year ago have become occupied by bright-eyed, optimistic entrepreneurs, so kudos to them! Our favorite of the still vacant bunch: 701 Haight. It's huge! It's got a neat mosaic on the stoop! Thousands of people get passed by the #6 bus every morning right on that corner: maybe you could put in a bike shop and make tons of money! We eagerly await our commission checks for that totally brilliant idea. [Haighteration]

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Tales from the Way Back Machine: The Chronicle brings us the fascinating...

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Monday, April 18, 2011, by Abby Pontzer

The Chronicle brings us the fascinating first-person account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Leonie von Zesch, 23 years old at the time, experienced the quake from her family's home at Sutter and Leavenworth, and went on to explore the damage in the rest of the city with her mother. Her diary was only found recently, by her 85-year old niece who hasdn't previously bothered to look through the box that Leonie had left to her. So a few things we can learn from this story: for Pete's sake, open boxes of old stuff, and when they tell you the gas main is broken, stop trying to light your stove. [SFGate]

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Mindboggling Reveals: Gay-Friendly BOOM Brings the Mist Disco Back to Desert Life

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Thursday, February 10, 2011, by Sarah

Why buy a home when you can buy a whole grown-up amusement park that goes with it? That seems to be the philosophy behind BOOM, a new residential development—complex, microcosm, small town, large village—that's expected to kick off phase one of construction next year. The $250M project, from L.A.-based developer Boom Communities and "conceived for the gay community but expanded to embrace everyone," enlisted 10 architects ranging from large to small to each design a "neighborhood." Diller Scofidio + Renfro, for instance, conceived "housing units to be part of a continuous, pre-cast concrete wave," whereas architect Juergen Mayer devised "a series of highly sculpted, one and two-story town homes with large patios and communally accessible gardens." Amenity buildings include a gym, a health and wellness center, and an Arakawa + Gins-designed "healing funhouse." (Not surprising, given that they're the guys behind the architectural concept of "reversible destiny"—as in structures meant to prolong youth.) Oh, and let's not forget about Diller Scofidio's "Rooftop Mist Disco and Market"—after all, this would be a pretty sorry gay community without a mist disco. Or a "market," for that matter! If this all is too mindblowing to handle, there's no need to wait to actually move in. That's right, BOOM comes with its very own social-networking site, Boom For Life, "where everyone gets to know each other, and the real interests and make-up of BOOM become evident for all."

· Boom For Life [official site]

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Jenny Craig Continues to Unload Extra Weight: Today The Real Estalker brings news...

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