The other night I caught a discussion on Larry King Live about the problems in the real estate market, including comments from real estate magnate Donald Trump, who basically said the housing market is in rough shape in many parts of the country.

"1,000,000 Foreclosures! Can you save your home?" noted the news crawler at the bottom of the program.

Some of the experts on the program, however, predicted that the real estate bust may be coming to an end.

Whichever way the market goes, two Seattle online real estate startups are pushing ahead with expansion plans. Redfin today is launching service in Chicago, the eighth market for the company and the first new market for the company this year. Meanwhile, Estately is moving into San Diego with its online real estate search service.

With the addition of the 4 million properties in Chicago and expanded search areas in Washington, California, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., and other areas, Redfin now will have a total of about 16 million properties on the site. Estately will have about 120,000 properties for sale on its site.

In addition to the Chicago launch, Redfin says that it has incorporated Street View maps from Google so that homebuyers can see a 360-degree view of properties and neighborhoods. (San Francisco-based Trulia rolled out that same functionality earlier this year.)

Estately and Redfin have different business models, though bother offer real estate search. Estately makes money by referring home buyers to traditional real estate agents, while Redfin acts as a discount broker that refunds a portion of the commission to home buyers.