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Archive for 'August 2007'

PropertyMaps Adds Winston-Salem, North Carolina Properties

We’re now in North Carolina with the addition of about 12,000 properties in the Winston-Salem area. Check out our press release on Camel City. We have many more areas on the map that will be online shortly so check back regularly. Also, we have a whole slew of announcements to make next week we are [...]

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PropertyMaps Enters Texas

Update: Check out the Austin press release.
We’ve added another 12,000 or so properties to Austin and surrounding areas. We have several more feeds lined up for Texas so you’ll soon see thousands of additional properties. You may have also noticed our new pushpins, they give you a much better idea of what they represent - [...]

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PropertyMaps Planned Outage

I can’t remember who said it, but the quote goes something like this: “If you aren’t worried about scalability, you aren’t growing fast enough.” Well, we have built a solid foundation for the inevitable horizontal scaling of the site so we aren’t so worried. But we do have to spread the services a bit thinner [...]

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San Francisco Real Estate Added to Map

San Francisco properties have been added to the map. This brings another 2,000 or so properties to our collection. The newly added data covers the limited area of the San Francisco peninsula, thus the low property count. Territories east and south of the Bay Area will be online in the next couple of weeks.

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PropertyMaps Adds 2.3 Million Businesses

On each property details page, we have added 2.3 million businesses, allowing you to see the property in relation to 32 different categories of business. Not all of the information is business related, we have sex offenders, schools, police/fire departments, etc. as well. We are continuously looking for ways to provide information to our home [...]

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PropertyMaps.com responds to article in The Investor’s Business Daily

Original article: “A Remodel Opens Door For Yahoo” by Pete Barlas
Dear Mr. Barlas,
Your article mentions how PropertyMaps.com recently has added sex offender information to our map-based MLS real estate search. In the article, Phil Immel, a longtime broker for Prudential, states “It is available by public record, but do you really want to put [...]

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PropertyMaps Welcomes New Hires

Briefly:
Due to our rapid growth as of late, we have hired several people this week including a Director of Marketing, a Director of Business Development, and another full-time sysadmin. Welcome to the PropertyMaps team everyone!
We are still looking for programmers so if you want to join a fast-moving, growing startup, please submit your resume through [...]

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Brevard MLS Adds Part of Space Coast

Update: Check out the Space Coast press release.
We’ve added another 13,000 or so properties. This time to Florida’s Space Coast (I’ve always liked that name). If you want a place where you can see shuttle flights from your backyard, we’ve got plenty of real estate for you to check out. That reminds me, I’ve got [...]

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PropertyMaps Adds BAREIS MLS

Another MLS has come online. This time we are happy to announce the addition of the Bay Area Real Estate Information Services, which brings over 11,000 properties to several counties north of San Francisco. We have several more feeds for the Bay Area in the pipeline so expect more announcements shortly. We’ll have a proper [...]

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Miscellaneous Site Improvements

We have updated the PropertyMaps website with a few additions that may not be immediately found by our users so I wanted to point them out. The first is the Location Information update - we have added National Averages to the Community Information tab and to some of the demographic tabs near the bottom of [...]

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