An addictive easy way to shop for homes
Early this summer, we made a goal to move through Estately, rip out things that were no longer necessary and double down on making what works work even harder. We started with the homepage because it gave us the chance to rethink our brand and it was technically the least difficult part of the site to update. We followed with...
We’ve been so busy updating Estately that we haven’t even blogged about many of the recent improvements. We’re so behind that we’re going to cram THREE feature releases into one blog post. Holy Maps with Holes! Once upon a time we not only outlined your search area on the map, but shaded it in as well. The downside of this...
At Estately, we wondered why no one had covered how the Greek debt crisis affected Americans. We decided that an illustration might be the best way to make what is a very complex economic story easy to digest. The take away is that the Greek debt crisis has saved US homebuyers an immense amount of money: the average person buying...
Source: United States Census Bureau. While housing starts – the number of homes on which construction has been started – have gone up and down since 1959, no year has come close to being as low as 2009. While predictions for 2010 are somewhat improved, you can count on fewer new homes being available in 2010 and 2011. Embed the...
Today we are celebrating a 15% expansion in our geographic breadth: the greater Washington DC area. After waiting for over 1 million photos to download, today we are announcing that we now have over half a million homes listed for sale on Estately. And we are welcoming Washington, DC and Baltimore. Having spent some time there, we will also give...
Some background: From late summer through October 2009, Uncle Sam offered first-time buyers $8,000 if they bought a home by the end of November. As a country we “brought sales forward” – we convinced people who would otherwise have bought in December or January to buy in November. When the November numbers were released, the National Association of Realtors and...