Georgiana Mihaila

After spending the first 6 years of her career training in the art of real estate alongside the Yardi team, Georgiana went on to become VP of Marketing for Montreal-based fintech company NestReady, then to run the marketing department behind one of the world’s leading self-dev media companies, Goalcast Inc. She’s now combining her passion for engaging content with a long-lasting addiction to real estate on FancyPantsHomes.com

San Diego Zoning Map includes planned development overlay

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 Home Price Changes by Neighborhood

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…

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 listing Syndication review

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…

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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…

map of Toxic sites in NYC

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:…

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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…

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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….

Unaffordability Map Identifies Fast Gentrifying Neighborhoods

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…