SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today,
Trulia®, a leading online destination for homebuyers and renters,
and actress Minka Kelly have teamed
up to celebrate the start of the 2016 home shopping season by
unveiling the Best Neighborhoods in America.
Based on an evaluation of key amenities and features for
consumers, Trulia has uncovered the Best Neighborhoods in America
in small, medium, and large cities.*
"As someone currently in the market to purchase a new home, I
know how important it is to find the perfect place to call 'home'
which, to me, includes a neighborhood that fits my needs," said
Minka Kelly. "Trulia has
been a great ally for me during this process. Whether you are
looking for the best school districts, hot spots to hang with your
friends, nearby parks for your furry friend, or all of the above,
Trulia makes it easy to find the perfect home and neighborhood for
you."
Born in Los Angeles, actress
Minka Kelly is no stranger to the
value of a neighborhood, having lived in a variety of locations all
over the country due to her career as an actress. When not filming
on the road, she resides in Los
Angeles, where she can hike past the Hollywood sign by day and dine at some of her
favorite restaurants at night – though she usually prefers to cook
at home for friends.
In addition to the Best Neighborhoods in America, Trulia also
uncovered the Best Neighborhoods for Singles and Best Neighborhoods
for Families. To find out more, go to
www.trulia.com/blog/bestneighborhoods
Live Well with Trulia's Newest Maps!
To further help consumers find the right home – and neighborhood
– Trulia also released the new Live Well maps. The maps help
home-seekers identify key amenities under three main categories:
Quiet Streets, a visual capture of low to high traffic
volumes; Great Places to Play, an overview of parks, trails,
indoor bounce houses, among other like facilities; and Care and
Essentials, a collection of data points on urgent care
facilities, hospitals and other places consumers may want to
identify prior to selecting your new neighborhood.
As the first online real estate website to integrate maps into
the online home-search experience, Trulia has now designed more
than 30 consumer-favorite maps that provide people with data-driven
information on crime, school ratings, natural hazards, and commute
times among others in easy-to-understand, design-centric
layers.
For more information on Trulia's maps including the new Live
Well map, visit www.trulia.com/local.
* Methodology
To find out where the Best Neighborhoods are, we cranked through
the neighborhood amenities data on our site and created a ranking
based on key metrics. For this we evaluated Restaurants, Beauty
establishments, Nightlife, Trails, Playgrounds, Pediatricians,
Childcare, and percentage of Quiet Streets per square mile, which
we combine to create a weighted average of each neighborhood's
ranking. Small markets are defined as having a population up to one
million persons, medium markets are defined as having a population
between one and two million persons, and large markets are defined
as having a population over 2 million. We also only looked at
neighborhoods that are between one and two square miles in area –
neighborhoods large enough to have a decent number of live well
features but small enough to actually feel like a neighborhood. The
index ranges from 0 – 100, with 100 being the best scoring and 0
being the worst.
About Trulia
Trulia® is a vibrant home shopping marketplace, focused on
giving home buyers, sellers and renters the information they need
to make better decisions. On mobile and the Web, Trulia provides
house hunters with insights and unique information about
properties, neighborhoods and real estate agents. Additionally,
Trulia offers data and information about schools, crimes, commute
times, and the real estate market.
Launched in 2005, Trulia is based in San Francisco and is owned and operated by
Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ :Z, ZG).
Trulia is a registered trademark of Trulia, Inc.
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For further information:
Trulia:
Monica Ma
PR@trulia.com
415.400.7397
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