Monthly Archives: October 2008

We have been digging through our internal search data lately and we’ve added Q3 2008 to our library of rental search trends. One of the most notable trends is the national increase of searches for homes for rent. As the graph above illustrates, there is a Quarter by Quarter increase in the national average, as [...]

Serendipitous legal circumstances may have contributed to the establishment of a new legal precedent in one northern California town located east of the San Francisco Bay; citizens of Dublin, CA may now be eligible to file temporary restraining orders to escape secondhand smoke. (photo courtesy of Mia Mabanta) From an article in the Contra Costa [...]

(picture courtesy of Mia Mabanta) Unlike finding an apartment for rent on MyNewPlace, renting a car is a logic defying process of truly stultifying proportions. What capricious madman makes up these rates, why do they change so much and why can’t you return a car on a Sunday night? For example, in San Francisco, if [...]

Recently, we have really rolled up our sleeves and began to sift through our internal search data 8 to compare what renters are searching for in different cities around the nation. As the 3rd largest apartment rental site on the web, we can get a pretty clear statistical view of what features renters are looking [...]

With all the news about the $700 Billion dollar federal bailout of the mortgage industry, and the stock market’s reaction to the initial failure of its passage in the House of Representatives, many have forgotten all about how difficult it was for Congress to agree upon HR 3221, the Housing and Recovery Act of 2008 [...]

After examining our internal search data, we discovered a 20 percent increase in the percentage of renters looking for 3 bedroom apartments between Q1 and Q2 this year. We fully expect this number to increase in the coming months, as renters start looking for ways to cut costs as the economic crisis accelerates towards uncharted [...]