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March 5, 2010 The inexact science of square footage"When it comes to square footage in New York City, it's the Wild West," said Bill Staniford, the CEO of real estate data Web site PropertyShark. "It's measured in so many different ways."Read More...
February 17, 2010 9 real-estate deal breakersProspective homeowners should factor in expenses such as groceries, gas, child care and even property taxes, which can vary widely across the country. (Compare property taxes at Property Shark.)Read More...
February 17, 2010 Hot Property: Biggest L.A.-area home sales of 2009?Here’s a look at the top five most expensive residential sales in the Los Angeles area last year, as identified by real estate data provider PropertyShark.com.Read More...
February 2, 2010 Malibu home sales stayed steady in 2009 while prices took a tumbleThe founder of PropertyShark.com, Haines and his team dug into third-quarter numbers to help pinpoint the five areas of prime Manhattan that have been toughest on sellers.Read More...
January 27, 2010 Google makes home viewing up close and personal“Property Shark with its historical data on the home's previous sale transactions, and of course Google Maps with those clever but somewhat intrusive street view. Read More...
January 25, 2010 Initial foreclosure notices up 84% in HamptonsHamptons and other East End homeowners appear to be increasingly at risk of foreclosure, according to statistics compiled by the online real estate Web site Propertyshark.com. Read More...
January 25, 2010 Foreclose threat hits Hamptons big shotsThe number of property owners on the East End of Long Island missing three mortgage payments skyrocketed 230 percent in the last quarter of 2009, compared with the same period a year before, according to court filings compiled by PropertyShark.com Read More...
January 21, 2010 Brooklyn Home Prices Decline for Ninth Quarter on NYC Job CutsCorcoran’s information was based on data collected by PropertyShark.com. Read More...
January 8, 2010 High-cost homes turned on their headsThe Real Deal examined foreclosure data provided by PropertyShark, RealtyTrac and NYU's Furman Center and found that across the board -- from houses on cul-de-sac streets in Staten Island to tony co-op apartments on the Upper West Side -- foreclosures in the five boroughs have quietly started creeping into more well-to-do neighborhoods.Read More...
January 5, 2010 Manhattan Residential Real Estate Now 'Reasonable'Buyers defied the typical seasonal slowness and pounced, sending closings soaring by nearly 50% from a year earlier, according to fourth-quarter data from brokerage The Corcoran Group and PropertyShark.com.Read More...
January 5, 2010 Plunging home prices pull Manhattan buyers back in“"The credit issue will undercut demand without a doubt," said Bill Staniford, CEO of PropertyShark.com, a foreclosure data website that collaborates on the Corcoran report. Read More...
January 5, 2010 Manhattan Apartment Prices Fall as Finance Jobs LostThe Corcoran Group, a New York-based broker that conducts its survey with the research company PropertyShark.com, said the median apartment price fell 15 percent. Read More...
January 1, 2010 In Real Estate Industry, Remembering a Year Worth ForgettingQueens, was by far the hardest-hit neighborhood, with 1,000 properties currently in foreclosure, according to Propertyshark.com. Read More...
December 15, 2009 You Probably Can't Afford To Live Anywhere On This MapThe latest map by the folks at PropertyShark charts Manhattan's affordability by comparing the median list prices in each neighborhood to the median household income. Read More...
December 4, 2009 L.A. County sales of $5 million or more at your fingertipsThe founder of PropertyShark.com, Haines and his team dug into third-quarter numbers to help pinpoint the five areas of prime Manhattan that have been toughest on sellers.Read More...
November 29, 2009 Manhattan's double dipThe housing price decline coupled with the nasty unemployment rate has resulted in a 13 percent jump in pre-foreclosure condominium court filings -- known as lis pendens -- in the third quarter across the city compared to the previous quarter, according to preliminary statistics from PropertyShark.com. Read More...
November 25, 2009 Sad State of NYC StorefrontsWe're a bit obsessed with PropertyShark's latest ambitious map experiment, despite it dragging us into the depths of commercial real estate boredom. Read More...
November 22, 2009 The Non-Hot Hot SpotsThe founder of PropertyShark.com, Haines and his team dug into third-quarter numbers to help pinpoint the five areas of prime Manhattan that have been toughest on sellers.Read More...
November 13, 2009 More trouble ahead the condo market/“I actually thought it was starting to look better last quarter, but the data is still pretty weak,” said Bill Staniford, chief executive of PropertyShark.com, an online real estate research company.Read More...
November 11, 2009 Property shark moves into costar territory“The six-year-old online real estate data firm PropertyShark.com is opening a new front in the commercial listing wars by publishing free local retail and office listings, in a direct but limited challenge to market leaders Costar Group and Loopnet.Read More...
October 3, 2009 Manhattan apartment prices drop for second quarter“The Corcoran Group, which conducts its survey with research company PropertyShark.com, said the median dropped 18% from a year earlier. Read More...
October 2, 2009 Manhattan home prices flattening“Bill Staniford, CEO of PropertyShark.com, which compiles Corcoran's data, is also predicting that prices could drop a bit more, though not substantially. Read More...
October 2, 2009 Manhattan Apartment Prices Drop for Second QuarterThe Corcoran Group, which conducts its survey with research company PropertyShark.com, said the median dropped 18 percent from a year earlier. Read More...
October 2, 2009 Falling apartment prices jolt manhattan marketThe market-wide median price fell 18% from a year ago, going from $971,000 to $799,000, while dipping 6% from the quarter earlier, according to a joint report from real estate brokerage The Corcoran Group and PropertyShark.com. Read More...
September 25, 2009 Amid a Citywide Slump, a Local ExceptionMeanwhile, Bedford-Stuyvesant has been hit hard by the recession, frequently ranking among the city’s top 15 neighborhoods in the number of preforeclosures, according to PropertyShark.com. Read More...
August 24, 2009 The PropertyShark database, searchable by address, tracks price history, comparables, tax-roll information, owner names, demographic information, flood and fire maps and more. Read More...
August 17, 2009 Houses go for a song in the HamptonsBut, according to Bill Stanford, chief executive of property information group Property Shark, these numbers may only be the tip of the iceberg. Read More...
August 4, 2009 NYC foreclosures drop but some areas struggleThe report from real estate data service PropertyShark.com shows nearly two-thirds of the auctions were in Queens, which accounts for less than a third of the city's population. Read More...
August 4, 2009 NYC foreclosures drop but some areas struggleThe report from real estate data service PropertyShark.com shows nearly two-thirds of the auctions were in Queens, which accounts for less than a third of the city's population. Read More...
July 20, 2009 Out of house and homeIn the second quarter of 2009, foreclosures in Los Angeles were up significantly from the first quarter of the year, to 9,263, according to PropertyShark.com, a real estate data site that tracks first-time residential foreclosures.Read More...
July 14, 2009 Struggling Landlords Leaving Repairs UndoneOf the 200 properties on the 2008 list, at least 77 were in foreclosure from January 2005 to October 2008, according to data from PropertyShark.com. Read More...
July 7, 2009 On a Harlem Block, Boarded-Up Buildings and a Changing MoodBut at 245, where it appears that renovations began with new windows, a foreclosure auction is scheduled for next week, according to data tracked by PropertyShark.com.Read More...
July 2, 2009 NY City Apartment Sales Down More Than 50%A report by the Corcoran Group and Property Shark.com showed the number of sales rose 10 to 15 percent from the first quarter with resales up 30 to 35 percent.Read More...
July 2, 2009 Manhattan home prices plunge“But there are a couple of positive factors prompting many entry-level buyers to get into the market, according to Bill Staniford, CEO of PropertyShark.com, which compiled Corcoran's statistics.Read More...
July 2, 2009 NY City apartment sales down over 50 percent“A report by the Corcoran Group and Property Shark.com showed the number of sales rose 10 to 15 percent from the first quarter with resales up 30 to 35 percent. Read More...
July 2, 2009 The Corcoran Group, which conducts its survey with the property research Web site PropertyShark.com, put the decline at 13 percent. Read More...
July 7, 2009 Short Sale, Long WaitFrom January to April, there were 2,520 lis pendens — or notifications of foreclosure — in Suffolk County and 1,888 in Nassau, according to propertyshark.com.Read More...
May 15, 2009 Mapping Foreclosures in the New York RegionA New York Times analysis found that foreclosure rates in the region were highest in areas with high minority populations. Read More...
May 15, 2009 My New House? I Met It OnlineHe also checks out sites like PropertyShark.com for the most recent sales price and ownership information on specific listings.Read More...
May 7, 2009 Has Los Angeles Hit Bottom?Of course, as we’ve been blogging here, the same can’t be said for the rest of the state, which PropertyShark doesn’t analyze. Read More...
May 1, 2009 Affordable Homes, via ForeclosuresAccording to Propertyshark.com, an online company that tracks real estate data, there were 943 new foreclosures on the Island in the first quarter of this year, a two-year high, up 77 percent compared with the first quarter of 2008.Read More...
April 10, 2009 Trying to Replace Brokers With AuctioneersPower will not be concentrated in a gavel-wielding hand; instead, an engine built by PropertyShark.com will register online and in-person bids and essentially run the auction.Read More...
April 10, 2009 ‘Walkable’ Communities Regain FavorContributor Matthew Haines of the real estate Web site PropertyShark.com sent us this map of New York City yesterday. Read More...
April 10, 2009 Historic drop for Manhattan housing market"It's a breathtaking drop compared to what we've seen in the last five years," said Matthew Haines, chairman of PropertyShark.com, a real-estate Web site.Read More...
April 2, 2009 Manhattan Apartment Prices Fall in First QuarterThe median resale price of an existing Manhattan apartment fell 11 percent to $749,000 in the first quarter, according to a report from PropertyShark.com, a foreclosure data Website and The Corcoran Group, New York City's largest brokerage.Read More...
April 2, 2009 Manhattan Real-Estate Market Skids as Sales SlumpSales of units in newly constructed buildings dropped 67% in the first quarter, and closings slid 52% compared with a year earlier. Inventory climbed 29% to 12,336 listings in March, the highest level in more than eight years, according to a report by real-estate brokerage The Corcoran Group and PropertyShark.com.Read More...
April 2, 2009 As Wall Street suffers, Manhattan apartment prices fall“The median resale price of an existing Manhattan apartment fell 11 percent to $749,000 in the first quarter, according to a report from PropertyShark.com, a foreclosure data Website and The Corcoran Group, New York City's largest brokerage. Read More...
April 2, 2009 Historic Drop for Manhattan Housing Market"It's a breathtaking drop compared to what we've seen in the last five years," said Matthew Haines, chairman of PropertyShark.com, a real estate Web site. Read More...
April 2, 2009 When a New Listing is Not Quite What it Seems“It pays to know a home's sales history. If the listing doesn't provide background information on the property, use online tools such as Property Shark, Redfin or Zillow to gather data -- or simply ask the agent for a full disclosure. Read More...
March 11, 2009 A Cold Season in the HamptonsLenders filed around 260 default notices, the first step in the legal process of foreclosure, against Hamptons property owners in 2008, according to PropertyShark.com, a research serviceRead More...
February 25, 2009 High Maintenance: The Reason a Manhattan Studio Costs Only $189KWe recently added residential listings to PropertyShark.com, and as a way to spice that up, we added a little section we were going to call “The Bottom Feeder,” listing the 10 cheapest studios, one bedroom and two bedroom apartments in Manhattan and other boroughs.Read More...
February 18, 2009 Homeownership harder to attain, retain in LevittownJohn Reid can do tricks with doves, rabbits and playing cards. He can transform balloons into a princess with a quick turn of his hands. Read More...
February 16, 2009 5 services to help you buy a house...That's when PropertyShark provides the most value. Read More...
February 6, 2009 The Downside for Condos in a DownturnAccording to figures provided by the online research company PropertyShark.com, condo lien filings more than doubled in Brooklyn during the second half of 2008Read More...
January 28, 2009 The Day the New York Real Estate Market Lost Its NerveBut we at PropertyShark think it was the downward plunge of the stock market that began at the end of September and continued for the next two weeks.Read More...
January 14, 2009 Hempstead Town tops in foreclosure auction schedulingJohn Reid can do tricks with doves, rabbits and playing cards. He can transform balloons into a princess with a quick turn of his hands. Read More...
January 7, 2009 L.A. foreclosures up 69 percent from a year ago“Fourth-quarter home foreclosures in both Los Angeles and Miami dipped from the previous quarter but rose versus a year ago, said real estate research firm PropertyShark.com, which warned the weak economy would spawn more foreclosures.Read More...
January 6, 2009 Manhattan Apartment Prices Fall Nearly 4%According to the Corcoran/PropertyShark report, median existing sales prices fell 4 percent year over year to $759,000 in the fourth quarter.Read More...
January 6, 2009 Manhattan apartment prices fall, will drop further“According to the Corcoran/PropertyShark report, median existing sales prices fell 4 percent year over year to $759,000 in the fourth quarter.Read More...
January 6, 2009 Striking Declines Seen in Manhattan Real Estate Market“The worst is yet to come; there is a blood bath coming,” said Matthew Haines, a founder of the real estate site Propertyshark.com who prepared the Corcoran report.Read More... (For all media inquiries, please contact (718) 715-1758 or pr@propertyshark.com) |
