Archive for 'September 2007'
PropertyMaps Expands Gulf Coast to Include Englewood
Our coverage of Florida’s Gulf Coast is filling out nicely with the addition of Englewood. This gives us another 2,500 properties on this coast. We’ll shortly have greater coverage of the Space Coast and will add Miami as well. So far Florida and Texas are neck and neck in the race for most properties per [...]
No commentsVegas, Baby!
We’ve made it to Las Vegas, adding over 30,000 properties to this area. For those keeping track, Las Vegas means “The Meadows” in Spanish. According to the Census Bureau, Las Vegas (Northern City), was the fastest growing city in the country with an almost 12% growth rate in 2007. We couldn’t be happier to be [...]
No commentsPropertyMaps.com Covered on Tampa Bay News Channel 8
On Monday, we had the Tampa Channel 8 news crew visit our office to film a piece on PropertyMaps.com. The segment was initially broadcast last night and will again be broadcast today and this weekend. The main angle of the story was the amount of information we provide to home searchers - sex offenders, schools, [...]
No commentsWe’re in Houston!
Update: Check out the Houston press release.
We’re in Houston now, the largest city in Texas, with over 50,000 properties in the area. This pushes our total for the state of Texas beyond 100,000 real estate listings and we still have several major cities to roll out. Next week we will add two major cities (elsewhere [...]
PropertyMaps Expands Florida Listings to Include Naples
Update: Check out the Naples press release.
We’ve expanded yet again. This time to Naples, Florida, adding over 13,000 properties to this area. Our coverage of the Sun Coast is rounding out quite nicely, a couple more additions are expected in the next several weeks so stay tuned. If you’re area is not covered, please let [...]
PropertyMaps Adds 75,000 properties to Northern Illinois
We’ve entered Illinois in a big way, adding 75,209 new listings to the Chicago area. And this is only our first step into Illinois, next up is the southern region which should be coming online within a week or two. A full press release on the Chicago area listings is forthcoming. In the meantime, check [...]
No commentsPropertyMaps.com Links Neighborhood Business Information to Home Listings Data
We’ve integrated over 2,300,000 businesses into the Location Information pages. These neighborhood pages already provide information on population demographics, recent home sales, climate and weather, employment and finance, crime statistics, community overview, cost of living information, school information, sex offender listings, and now Business Information (and no, I’m not just keyword stuffing here). Check out [...]
No commentsGlenn Selig Joins PropertyMaps as Executive Vice President and Director of Marketing
In a previous post, I mentioned we hired a few key people but intentionally left it vague. Today, I’m proud to announce one of those key members is Glenn Selig, an award-winning reporter and investigative journalist who enjoyed a successful 20-year career in TV news. Glenn will be joining us as Executive Vice President and [...]
No commentsPropertyMaps Adds Dallas / North Texas to Expanding Dataset
Update: Check out the North Texas press release.
We’re ploughing through our data queue and have added another 40,000 properties to the Dallas Area / North Texas. This feed is fresh out of the oven so we’re still pulling the hundreds of thousands of images required for these properties. We’ve also been fine tuning our data [...]
PropertyMaps Offers Free Geocoder
Update: The URL format for the geocoder has changed and has been corrected below.
We have a new geocoder function that we are testing out and want to get the general public in on it. The geocoder uses several backend engines, so the idea is: if the address is not found in our database, we look [...]
