Monthly Archives: January 2010

Each month, Hitwise, a competitive search intelligence company for online advertising, releases a Monthly Category Report for the real estate industry based on traffic to websites and search terms. They rank websites according to visits and search terms based on which keywords typed into search engines resulted in a visit for a ranked site. The [...]

Vacancy Rates Up, Rents Down  Last week Reis, Inc. reported for Q4 2009 that vacancy rates were up to 8 percent and rents were down 3 percent nationwide, indicating that indeed we are in a renter’s market. The vacancy rate has skyrocketed since the all time low of 5.5 percent in Q3 2006 and is [...]

We are very excited to announce that MyNewPlace and Walk Score are working together to improve the online apartment marketplace for renters across the nation. MyNewPlace is now the first major apartment search website to feature Walk Score walkability ratings on every listing. What is Walk Score? Using a proprietary algorithm, the folks at Walk [...]

On the front cover of last Friday’s Wall Street Journal we saw a story about data from Reis, Inc. that shows commercial (office space) rents in Washington, D.C. should overtake New York City for the highest rent per square foot in the nation. Commercial rents declined in almost all of the 79 American cities that [...]

For some mostly scientific and therefore unknown reason, the temperature inside of our apartment is actually colder than it is outside. I have noticed that this phenomenon is also present in some other San Francisco apartments, and it is mostly due to the fact that since the climate is technically very moderate, most apartments are [...]

A recent U.S. District Court decided in favor of Post Properties, who had been sued by the Equal Rights Center (ERC) for violations of the Fair Housing and Americans with Disabilities Acts. The judge granted the defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment and ruled that the plaintiff did not have legal standing in a court of [...]