Yesterday, we took a broad look at the real estate vertical by comparing for rent search terms with for sale search terms and found that the market share of for rent terms had overtaken that of for sale terms in 2009. Just to review, by market share...

In the real estate space, rent search terms surpassed the market share than sale terms in 2009, according to Hitwise Real Estate Weekly Reports, a seeming online reflection of the housing crisis. Are there a few terms that are swinging the tally or is...

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...

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...

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...