There are two types of classifieds listings: private party listings, where consumers buy and sell with each other, and professional listings, where a business (car dealer, landlord, real estate agent) is selling to a consumer. When you’re looking to get the best deal, it’s important to see both types of listings so that you can [...]

As we’re gearing towards those really hot summer months, what better to do than go out buy one of those really hot summer cars? I’m talking about convertibles — Boxsters, Mustangs, G4s, the goods. For the best deals on used sports cars, check out Oodle’s handy little tools: maps and pricing guides.
Cool stats about [...]

Following my last post on Q1 activity in the housing market, we had some inquiries as to the other strong real estate markets (apart from New York). The two other strong markets are both on the West Coast – L.A. and San Francisco.
Prices in the San Francisco real estate market were unyielding in the face [...]

The first quarter is typically a low-volume period in both the real estate and rentals market, and lower prices are associated with this slow period in the housing cycle. The Boston market, which has seen continued price deflation, is a great example of this dynamic.
In the first quarter of 2007, real estate prices in Boston [...]

For the past three quarters, Oodle has been tracking local and national housing prices based on the listings in our index – both real estate listings and rental listings. We are currently tracking over 2M real estate listings and 1M rental listings in the US.From an economic standpoint, evaluating rental markets can provide valuable [...]

Oodle tracks all the used cars on the market in every region of the country. In addition to looking at pricing information, we thought it would be fun to look at what cars people are selling both nationally and at a regional level.
At a national level, one thing that jumps out is the popularity [...]

With the launch of the Oodle Index last month, we began providing price guides for cars and housing (both real estate and rentals). Our price guides include price distributions — which show what’s on the market in different price ranges as well as the median price — and tradeoff graphs — which allow users [...]

Today Oodle rolled out something that we think is pretty cool, the Oodle Index — a pricing guide for local classifieds.
Pricing is extremely inefficient in classifieds. We consistently see widespread differences in the local asking price across similar goods (e.g., the price of a 2004 Honda Accord with 30k miles may [...]