An addictive easy way to shop for homes
Say you’re driving to work and you see a cool house for sale along the way. Say you’re also like me – you generally know what street you’re on, but by the time you get to work, you’ve entirely forgotten the cross street the house was on. This is one of the home buyer’s problems that can be helped by...
Inman News, sort of the premier real estate news site, covers our launch and some of our features in an article today: The site also gives info on neighborhood market conditions such as number of homes currently on the market, average price, average square footage, and average time on the market, among other details. Each neighborhood includes links to popular...
Well this is certainly not what we planned for our first post launch announcement. Saturday evening our database server crashed – hard. Our site is back up now and no data was lost. We’re working hard to make sure this will not happen again. Sorry for the inconvenience. On a brighter note we’ve been getting great feedback from you, our...
After getting great feedback from our beta testers, improving the site and squashing bugs, we’re opening our doors to let the public start searching for homes on our map-based real estate search site, ShackPrices.com. What is ShackPrices? ShackPrices.com is a snappy Google maps-based real estate search site that makes finding a home better by augmenting each real estate listing with...
Since our last post in June, you may have been asking yourself “has ShackPrices dropped off the face of the earth?” But you would be asking the wrong question. The right question is “what kind of awesome real estate search site has the ShackPrices team been working on?” Our totally unbiased answer to that question: pretty awesome. Currently a bunch...
ISO Innovative Analytics found that zip codes, particularly in dense urban areas, are insufficient for identifying your car insurance premium through some pretty awesome spatial analysis. They came up with a list of risk factors, with the biggest risk factor being living within a mile of a restaurant, followed closely by living near a grocery store. This research won’t affect...