PropertyMaps Corporate Blog

We’ve added a couple minor features to the site in the last week that you may not have noticed. Here is a rundown:

1. Global Village (top/center) - We have rebranded our “Ask an Expert Forum” to “Global Village” to give it more appealing, intimate feel.
2. Developer Area (bottom/left) - A new area dedicated to webmasters, developers, and fellow brokers. Big plans are in store for this section, but for now we have a selection of PropertyMaps links and banners.
3. Real-time Counter (bottom/right) - A widget from whos.amung.us that displays the number of current users on the site. The lower picture shows there were 13 concurrent users (at the time of the screenshot), mostly from the US, but throughout the day we had traffic from around the world.

Minor Features Added

Who’s Among Us?

32,000+ parties (err, properties) were added to the Fort Lauderdale area. I’ll have to go check out some of the listings come spring break. This addition catapults Florida to the top of the chart with the most properties. Currently we have almost 150,000 listing in Florida alone. Now on to the other states…

Going on Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale

The first of several areas of Arizona has gone on the map. We added Tucson, with 10,000 or so properties for the area. More regions of Arizona will be online in the next couple weeks. You might also see that we have a few stragglers in other states such as Utah, New Mexico, and Montana. We haven’t officially entered these markets yet, there was just some spillover from the surrounding states. We do have plans for those areas though.

PropertyMaps Enters Arizona

Rounding out our coverage of the San Francisco area, we’ve put East Bay on the map with 17,000 properties. I have many fond memories of hanging out in Oakland with friends attending UC Berkeley. Berkeley was also were I got to experience Virtual Reality for the first time when it was the cool thing in the 90’s, but the pizza in the area was more exciting. More updates on California are on the way.

PropertyMaps Adds East Bay, San Francisco

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 state. California is probably going to pull ahead of the pack in the next couple weeks, more details later.

PropertyMaps Expands Gulf Coast to Include Englewood

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 in this market. I’m going to have to make a trip out there to make sure pushpin placement on the strip is accurate (and bet on 26 black).

PropertyMaps Adds Las Vegas

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, businesses, and neighborhood demographics. From the story, we had an overwhelmingly positive response to the display of the offender data on the website. Many applauded our efforts and encouraged us to not let the naysayers thwart our efforts. You can see the clip in the below YouTube video.

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 in the US). Hint: one can be translated as “The Meadows”, the other is the birthplace of the Apple Pascal programming language.

PropertyMaps Adds Houston

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 us know.

PropertyMaps Expands Florida Listings to Include Naples

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 out our Illinois partners at Eleven Hills Real Estate Company.

PropertyMaps Adds 75,000 properties to Northern Illinois