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Yahoo Real Estate Unveils New Search Experience

Pity the poor person who's trying to sell a house in this market; with prices diving and places available on almost every street, they probably won't get a great deal.  But an updated Yahoo Real Estate aims to make sure sales at least occur, and it might become a buyer's dream.

Zillow.com Reducing Staff By 25%

Online real estate Web site, Zillow.com has announced it is cutting 25 percent of its staff, which amounts to 40 employees in order to "securely batten down the hatches as we sail into a major economic storm," the company's chief executive officer, Rich Barton wrote on the Zillow Blog.

Yahoo Pays $15M For Nebraska Building

Suppose you're going to start a diet on Sunday.  That means a fill-the-trunk trip to the bakery is in order on Saturday, right?  So Yahoo seems to think, as word has come that it paid about $15 million for a space in La Vista, Nebraska.

Yahoo May Establish Data Center In Nebraska

La Vista is located near the eastern edge of Nebraska.  Its Wikipedia page makes it sound like a pleasant enough place, and if the implications of some recent reports are right, the city is about to get a big boost courtesy of Yahoo.

Facebook Picking Up New Offices

As charts tracking Facebook's growth have gone up and up, it's only natural that the company's employee count would do something similar.  Now, in order to accommodate everyone, Facebook's taking over some offices in the Stanford Research Park.

Trulia Takes In More Funding

Which would you research more: a seemingly safe purchase when you have lots of cash, or a risky one when the economy's bad?  It makes a great deal of sense, then, that real estate site Trulia has just raised $15 million in funding.

Google Consolidating Denver And Dallas Offices

Google's recurring physical expansions may have gone a little too far.  There's word that the search giant now plans to shrink a bit by closing offices in Denver and Dallas.

Google Adds To Its New York Office Space

Converted into acres (1.15), the area doesn't sound so impressive.  Look at it in another unit of measurement, though, and Google's 50,000 square feet of fresh office space starts to seem like a lot.

The Internet's Influence For Home Buyers

Just what we want to hear - bad news about the housing market, but this time online. Turns out online searches didn’t have as significant impact on homebuying or renting decisions as we may have hoped. That doesn’t necessarily mean real estate sites should pull back their budgets though.

Google Maps Offers Real Estate Listings

Realtors have had a hard time these past six or so months; as the housing market crashed, the competition for buyers grew fierce.  Now Google's making things even more interesting by introducing a real estate search option on the main page of Google Maps.