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Zillow, Trulia Move In As Real Estate Power Couple

Real estate is going through a revolution whose flagbearers are Zillow and Trulia, websites where people research buying a home and real estate agents market. A $3.5 billion merger between Zillow (Z) and Trulia (TRLA), a stock swap valued at $3.5 billion at the time of the December 2014 announcement but now valued near $1.8 billion, was completed Tuesday, heralding just how much the Internet is changing real estate, like so many other industries.

Zillow Postpones Trulia Merger Closing Date

Real estate website Zillow (Z) has postponed its acquisition of rival website Trulia in order to comply with an information request from federal regulators. In a filing Monday, Zillow said it had made an extension request to the Federal Trade Commission on Friday and now will not complete the merger before Feb. 15, 2015. Zillow previously had agreed not to close its acquisition of Trulia (TRLA) before Feb. 1, because of the FTC’s review. In its

Zillow-Trulia Merger Gets Stockholder Nod

No. 1 online real estate search engine Zillow (Z) and No. 2 Trulia announced Thursday that their respective stockholders approved the previously announced merger of the two companies. Zillow stockholders approved the merger – first announced in late July – at a special meeting in Seattle on Thursday, while Trulia (TRLA) stockholders approved the merger at their meeting in San Francisco. The stock swap deal, originally valued at $3.5 billion, still