LA County Tax Sale Coming Up; 3,500+ Properties Scheduled for Auction
Looking for information on the 2014 LA County Tax Sale? You can find it here. With only a few days left until this year’s Los Angeles County Tax Sale – set to take place on October 21, 22 in Pomona – we thought we’d take a look at the properties that will go up for…
Luxury Condo in SoHo Scheduled for Auction
Manhattan is no stranger to big-ticket foreclosure auctions, with properties once valued above the $60 million mark ending up on the foreclosure block. But aside from the inevitable media spectacle they give rise to, very few of these properties are of interest to home buyers and investors as their lien amount generally exceeds their valuation….
NYC Unaffordability Map Puts Fast Gentrifying Areas in the Limelight
What’s an unaffordability map? Well, it’s what came out of a special request from the Gothamist editorial team, who wanted to see which neighborhoods are gentrifying the fastest. By measuring the median home sale price in each census tract, divided by the median household income, the map highlights which neighborhoods in the city’s five boroughs…
Pierce-Eislen now part of the Yardi team
PropertyShark’s parent company, Yardi Systems, has recently welcomed apartment market research expert Pierce-Eislen to its growing family of companies. Currently providing extensive data on 58 markets around the U.S., Pierce-Eislen has long been looking for a partner to support its aggressive growth, and teaming up with one of the real estate industry’s top player seems…
Finding a Home in El Paso, TX Just Got Easier
It’s no secret that searching for a home on a Multiple-Listing Service (MLS) website is often hindered by the lack of user-friendly features, especially when taking into account the experience of the average home buyer or seller. This is why more and more MLSs have lately been thinking about adopting a consumer-facing portal which can…
Blockbuster NYC Buildings in Q1 2013
After being crowned NYC’s best selling building 2 years in a row, the time has come for Williamsburg’s The Edge to leave its top spot. Q1 2013 brought a new wave of buildings into PropertyShark’s top 10 list of buildings with most units sold, half of them having median sale prices over $1 million. Upper…
PropertyShark Real Estate Networking Party
We wish to thank all 800+ attendees of the PropertyShark Real Estate Networking Party last week at Vermilion restaurant in Manhattan. Business cards were exchanged, many new vital connections were made and the best part is we all had a blast. Some of our guests described the event as “the best one they attended all…
PropertyShark Upcoming Real Estate Networking Party in Manhattan
The event will be held on Wednesday, June 5th, at the Vermilion restaurant, in Manhattan, starting from 6 p.m. Admission is free for all those who register in advance.
Announcing the final winners in our Facebook contest
The most anticipated moment of our contest has finally arrived! It’s time to announce the final winners of both the lifetime subscription to PropertyShark services and of our big prize, the iPad Mini. The good news is that, once again, there are 2 people who won subscriptions. Votes were pouring in on the last minute for Gabe Chitzlifs and…
Mobile Property Reports Are Here!
From the feedback we’ve been constantly receiving from our users (thanks so much, by the way!), we know that many of you have been facing the challenge of solving more client requests while on the go. In the light of this, we’re excited to let you know that we’ve just launched a product that’s meant…
And the third week winner is..
Kamla Jaikaran!  She shared her PropertyShark story with us on Facebook and won a lifetime subscription. Here is her story: “I started using propertyshark to complete my BPOs and what a difference; it has facilitated the whole process. So much better that the local MLS. There are properties that closed and agents haven’t update the MLS…
Second Round Winner in Our Facebook Contest
The second round of our Facebook contest is over, thank you all for your submissions and for your nice words. Joshua Haller is this week’s lucky winner of a lifetime subscription.  Joshua managed to get 11 votes from his friends with the following story: “I have been working in Real Estate for 4 years and…
PropertyShark Reaches the 1-Million Members Milestone in Time for Its 10-Year Anniversary
Ten years after PropertyShark.com was launched, we’re very happy to announce that we’ve passed the 1-million registered members milestone, just in time for our anniversary. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all our users for helping us grow through giving us their business, passing on recommendations, or simply for browsing our site. Because…
Selling Homes? These Are the Most Popular Keywords NYC Agents Use to Sell Fast
Selling a property can take a long time, and in NYC the average selling time can last even longer than in many other parts of the nation. One of the things that agents can do to speed up a sale is to work on the listing description carefully. And if you ever wondered what those…
Hotel Investments in NYC Saw Sharp Fall in 2012
Although last year the overall activity in the commercial sector in NYC was the most upbeat we’ve seen in 5 years, the hotel segment was far from boasting the same results.The sales volume dropped by 58%, totaling only $1.6 billion. This is a sharp fall from the results seen in 2011, but still at least…
NYC Demolition Permits Slowly Rising, while New Building Permits’ Decline May Be Leveling Out
One of the (very) early signs that new construction is about to start is that old buildings are being demolished. In New York City, the total number of demolition permits issued in all boroughs has been on an upward trend, although it’s a slow rise. NYC Demolition Permits See a 5% Uptick There were 1,174…
5-Year High for NYC Commercial Sales Volume
The surprise came from Brooklyn last year: the borough managed to register a 5-year record in commercial transactions due to the sale of the Kings Plaza Mall, which raked in $751,000,000.
Top Selling Buildings in NYC
Last year’s waves of sales at Williamsburg’s splashiest development The Edge crowned the building as the top selling NYC building for the second year in a row. With 167 units sold in 2012 at a median price of $804,418, added to the 272 sold in 2011, The Edge has all its 565 units now sold.
Move over Dumbo, Boerum Hill is now Brooklyn’s top neighborhood
 If in 2011 Dumbo took everyone by surprise, ranking 4th in the top 10 neighborhoods, in 2012 another Brooklyn neighborhood grabbed the spotlight. Boerum Hill climbed to 6th place with a median sale price of $950,000, surpassing well known upper class neighborhoods like the Upper East Side, West Village and ultimately Dumbo. As our…
$10M+ Home Sales Surge in the Hamptons
As activity in the luxury market was booming in Manhattan and Brooklyn throughout 2012, the Hamptons didn’t lag behind either. Here’s the proof: sales in the very high end of the Hamptons housing market ($10 million and over) jumped 44% in 2012! The overall picture looked encouraging as well. Sellers and buyers of homes in…
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