Are Your Property Taxes Too High? See How Much You Should be Paying
High property taxes are a burden for many home owners; but if you feel you may be paying too much in property taxes, PropertyShark can help you figure out what the right amount is, and gather all the necessary information you need for your property tax appeal. Scout the Neighborhood and See How Much Your…
Top 20 U.S. Cities for Culture: Cultural Venues Density per City Population
While cities all around the U.S. are constantly adding new venues and attractions, we started wondering: just how many properties are actually destined for cultural and recreational activities? An in-depth look at the biggest cities in the U.S. shows that they all have a generous amount of cultural attractions – ranging from museums, libraries and…
Top 50 U.S. Home Owner Names: Did Your Name Make the List?
What are the most common home owner names in the U.S. — and is yours one of them? Or maybe yours is listed among the names of luxury property buyers? In a rather unique attempt to paint a picture of home ownership throughout the U.S., sister website Point2 Homes tapped into our property owners database…
Of Realtors and Home Buyers: 7 Real-Life Stories [Infographic]
Finding that perfect home is never an easy task; and it’s not only the home buyers that feel the weight of the search. With this in mind, we wanted to see what stories realtors have to tell, so we took it to Reddit, asking them upfront: What’s the worst experience you’ve ever had with a…
How to Find Potential Home Sellers in NY: A 3-Step Guide for Real Estate Pros
With such a limited listings inventory at your disposal, having to find prospective home sellers in New York is quite a task. But here’s where PropertyShark can help, with three effective tips on how to find potential home sellers: 1. Get to the owner of a condo before he even decides to sell A good…
5 Striking San Francisco Satellite Images Show 12 Years’ Worth of Development
San Francisco has been the subject of endless talks on gentrification, rising rents, and uber expensive neighborhoods; but how has the local real estate scenery changed, visually speaking? Our friends over at Point2 Homes put together a series of exciting before-and-after San Francisco satellite images that show major sites around the city and how they’ve…
How to Get Your New York Real Estate License
The real estate industry is a dynamic business that can be a lucrative, satisfying and rewarding career. Being a real estate agent is similar to being an entrepreneur – it is up to you to determine how successful you will be. A real estate agent typically does the following: lists property promotes sales of properties through…
LA’s 10 Biggest Tax Payers: From F1 Heiress to the Ultimate Playboy
As Nickelback put it, we all want ‘a brand new house on an episode of Cribs’; but a huge house and ‘A front door key to the Playboy mansion‘ come at a cost – and I’m not just talking about the purchase price. Los Angeles property taxes for million dollar homes can escalate up to…
Top 10 Most Expensive Cities in North America
With the average home price at a staggering $733,335, Vancouver tops the list of the 10 most expensive cities in North America by average home prices. The list, compiled by the Financial Post, also features 2 other Canadian cities, Toronto and Calgary, while the remaining 7 cities are all from the USA. 3 of the…
San Francisco Real Estate Networking Party – Counting Down the Days
Looking for a chance to connect with some of the most influential real estate professionals in San Francisco? Then please join us for an exciting San Francisco real estate networking party: When: May 29, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM Where: 46 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 Why: Over 300 local real estate professionals from…
Looking for Vacant Land in Los Angeles? Here’s a Map of All Vacant Lots in the County
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to identify all Los Angeles vacant lots at a glance? We thought that’s something you might be interested in, so we put together this useful map overlay that shows all tracts of vacant land spread around Los Angeles County, and included a breakdown by county-designated landuse – residential,…
Top 5 Reasons to Attend our Los Angeles Real Estate Networking Party
Have you heard about our upcoming Los Angeles real estate networking party? If you haven’t (or maybe you’re not quite convinced yet), here are the top 5 reasons why you should join us on May 27, 6:00 PM at the Lexington Social House: Great networking opportunities: connect with over 300 real estate professionals and some…
Sea Cliff Takes the Lead as Priciest San Francisco Neighborhood
When it comes to expensive lifestyle and pricey neighborhoods, San Francisco seems to give New York’s steep prices a run for their money (pun intended). After all, it’s the fourth most expensive city in the U.S. and it’s located in one of the wealthiest regions in the world. So if you’re on a spending spree…
San Diego Zoning Map Shows What you Can Build and Where
What better way of telling what you can build and where to build it around San Diego than with a highly-detailed Zoning Map of the entire San Diego County? Freshly updated as part of a broader and more ambitious plan of boosting PropertyShark.com’s data & services offering for California (that included the addition of detailed…
San Francisco Gentrification all Mapped Out: See Where Prices Went Up 51%
Driven by Silicon Valley’s booming tech sector, San Francisco’s rising rents have been holding headlines for the past months, claiming their spot among the nation’s highest rents. And while everyone else focused on how much rents had gone up, we thought we’d look at just how much median home prices have been soaring in the…
Real Estate Agents: Why Use Branded Property Reports?
In an increasingly competitive market, staying ahead of the game is not always an easy task; home buyers and sellers try to identify skilled professionals with a good grasp of the local market – but with so many resources at their immediate disposal, standing out from a pool of candidates might present itself as quite…
Carroll Gardens, Chelsea – the Superstar NYC Nabes of 2013
The past year has brought quite a lot of change to the crème de la crème of New York City’s housing market. Now, this could mean a lot of things, but reassuringly enough 2013 was mostly about progress in top-of-the-line NYC residential real estate. As the impact of the recession fades, it is slowly beginning…
Bronx Real Estate Market Sees Fewer Home Sales, Slightly Bigger Prices
How has the Bronx real estate market developed in the course of the past five years? Our analysts pulled out all sales data on single- & two-family homes, condos, and coops recorded in the 2008 – 2013 timeframe, putting together a quick overview of the Bronx housing market. Despite a sizable drop in the number…
Point2 Agent Review: Online Marketing Tools for Every Real Estate Agent
Today we’re taking a peek under the hood at Point2 Agent, an online marketing toolkit used by thousands of agents worldwide. Point2 Agent is a web-based solution that will help you boost your exposure and bring in more real estate leads via easy-to-use tools, including listing syndication and automated prospecting functionalities. Point2 is well known…
NYC Market Size in the Past Decade: 2007 Frontrunner with $109 Billion
It’s December. Year-end lists are bound to be heading your way. So we thought we’d do something a little different: we’ve looked back at the past ten years, and added up all NYC property sales (commercial, residential, and industrial) collected by PropertyShark throughout the past decade, in order to determine the market size. In case…
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