Crime statistics & neighborhood guides

Today, we added the first of a series of planned guides to help renters get a feel for neighborhoods they’re not familiar with. If you’re viewing a listing, you’ll notice the neighborhood name is now linked; clicking the neighborhood will show you the average rent prices for that neighborhood, links to crime statistics (fresh off [...]

New feature for agents: Neighborhood Activity

Registered agents: You can see, in real-time, the most popular neighborhoods on our system. Go to the “Research” section to see the number of active listings and average page views by neighborhood. You can use this information to post new listings to more popular or under-represented neighborhoods.
Here’s a quick sampling of this report (as [...]

Recap

A lot has happened between our launch in December ‘07 and the start of this blog. In the interest of thoroughness, here’s a quick recap of news and product items during that time:
Product Additions

Integration of GypsyMaps.com subway and bus routes. Clicking on the “subway” or “bus” buttons in the map will display public transportation routes [...]

Welcome, Nest Seekers!

We just finished a datafeed integration project with Nest Seekers, a real estate firm that specializes in New York, but also manages properties across the globe. With the completion of this project, Nest Seeker agents get their latest rental listings automatically posted to our site, and renters get access to an additional 200+ listings and [...]

Saved by the Backup

Yesterday’s outage at Amazon affected some of our images, including the photos for the apartments. Luckily, we store copies of everything on a local machine, so operations were back to normal after a few minutes of broken image icons scattered across our site. Others using Amazon’s service weren’t so lucky, and had to deal with [...]