PropertyShark Staff
Median Sale Price Reaches 8-Year High in Los Angeles County
The median sale price in L.A. county reached $485,000 in the second quarter of 2015, a peak which was last seen 8 years ago (in Q4 2007), shortly before the onset of the financial crisis. Compared to Q1 2015, the price represents a 7% increase while compared to the same quarter last year it’s a 9%…
Homes of the Super-Rich: NYC’s Top 10 Most Expensive Home Sales in Q1 2015
Following a strong 2014, the New York City residential real estate market continued to heat up in Q1 2015. Scroll down to see the countdown of the top 10 most expensive home sales recorded in the first quarter of 2015: 10. 300 Central Park West #4D Sale price: $12,750,000 Sold by movie star Bruce Willis, the majestic three…
PropertyShark Launches Improved Polygon Draw Tool for a Better User Experience
Today we are excited to announce an improved experience regarding map area selection on PropertyShark.com thanks to our new Polygon Draw Tool. Several improvements have been deployed to the new tool which is now faster to work with and easier to use compared to our previous version. The goal was to offer our users a…
San Francisco Rents to Increase by 9% in 2015
Apartment rents are expected to increase by 4.5% nationwide for the Lifestyle segment*, Class A and B+, according to the 2015 Rent Forecast & Outlook report published by Pierce-Eislen. Technology-heavy Western markets will be the leaders of the pack, with San Francisco apartment rental market expected to score a 9% Y-o-Y growth rate. San Francisco will…
NYC Real Estate Just Got 25% Cheaper for Swiss Buyers
U.S. investors turned their focus to the Swiss franc after the currency soared by 25 percent in value against the U.S. dollar this morning. Although the news came as a bad surprise for most investors in both Europe and the U.S., Swiss franc owners were able to buy NYC real estate 25% cheaper than yesterday. A few…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
Introducing Point2Homes – Homes for Sale and Property Data under One Roof
We are proud to present Point2Homes, the real estate listings portal of our sister company, Point2. Having undergone a transition to a new location (point2homes.com), it now offers both real estate listings and property data. And while we’re at it, we want to tell you a little bit about the company itself. Point2 was founded…
10 homes auctioned by the Public Administrator of Queens County
If you didn’t have time to go and see the properties on December 8th or 9th you can still get a sense of what shape they are in by looking at the property reports on PropertyShark.
Q2 2012 Brooklyn Apartment Sales Map
The areas with the most intense sales activity this quarter were Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, and Downtown Brooklyn.
Chart of the week: Brooklyn’s most expensive homes (2005-2012)
If you’re interested in expensive homes featured in slideshows and Brooklyn, PropertyShark’s chart of the week provides you the perfect combination of the two. If last week we crowned this $88M pad as the most expensive home sale in Manhattan, this week we’re looking at how high home sales went in Brooklyn from 2005 to…
Chart of the week: NYC most expensive homes (2005-2012)
How much is not too much for certain New Yorkers when it comes to buying a home? $30M, $40M, $50M? Close…but still far away. At PropertyShark.com we looked at the highest price tags put on residential homes sold each year since 2005, and we’re ready to share the findings with you in our weekly chart….