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…
NYC Soil Pollution Exposed: Mapping All Toxic Sites around the City
Our NYC Toxic Sites Map has been getting a lot of media attention lately; and there’s a good reason for that! Bringing together all known toxic spots in NYC, our handy map lets you know whether you should fear any health or financial woes when deciding to invest in a certain…
See Past the LLC Part 2: Find the Real Owner of an NYC Property
In our previous blog post called See Past the LLC: 3 Ways to Unmask the Real Owner of an NYC Property, we talked about the three easiest ways to find out the real name of a property owner. As promised, here’s a follow-up to that article, detailing three alternative ways to get behind an LLC:…
See where the fun is: Mapping NYC and LA’s Halloween party locations
Looking for a good scare this Halloween? We’ve put together two fun maps with some of the best party locations around NYC and LA to help you spot the one that’s closest to you! Moreover, we’ve broken them down into 2 categories: the ones that are adult-centered – and may involve alcohol and late hours…
Before & After Satellite Images of Major NYC Developments
Our sister company, Point2Homes, has compiled a nifty collection of satellite images that reveal just how radically some major developments have changed a number of iconic NYC sites. Initially featured as part of an exclusive story in the popular NYC publication Gothamist, these images show how growth and new developments have changed the scenery in…
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…
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