By Kim Velsey 3/04 2:21pm

real estate technology

CityRealty

CityRealty Revamps Real Estate Site; Hopes To Dominate Increasingly Crowded Field

CityRealty was found back in 1995, before Google and Facebook. Geocities and Yahoo—basically an online directory at the time—were both newly-launched companies. It even predated Ask Jeeves, which didn’t make its debut until 1996. CityRealty’s earliest incarnation—a sort of glorified real estate classifieds—was cutting edge in the way that anything online back then was cutting edge just by virtue of being online.

“The people who founded the company thought it would be a listings site to compete with the newspapers,” general manager Jim Schoenburg told The Observer. “As far as we know, we’re the oldest continuously operating real estate website.” Read More

By Kim Velsey 11/30/12 6:40pm

Selling New York

streeteasy

Streeteasy Adds Storm Zones To Building Pages

Hurricane Sandy has made at least one indelible mark on the New York real estate market. Streeteasy has added storm zones to their building pages, allowing buyers and renters to easily determine what zone a property is in.

The company decided to start posting the information in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The move is consistent with the company’s interest in promoting transparency in real estate, manager Jared Kleinstein told The Observer. Read More

By Laura Kusisto 2/21/11 7:23pm

Prospective Tenants

Apartment Hunter-Gatherer Prowling

From the glamorous to the quotidian, everything you need to know about New York City’s apartment market is contained on StreetEasy, except this: The city’s most powerful residential real estate site has begun a quest for new office space.

“We’ve got half a dozen places that are of real interest,” chief executive Michael Smith told Read More

By Bonnie Kavoussi 6/12/09 8:50pm

Hamptons Seasonal Benchmark for High-End Renting: $295K

The new seasonal benchmark for renting a Hamptons spread is apparently $295,000. According to data from StreetEasy, eight Hamptons homes are leasing for the summer at that magic number, and they’re the priciest out there rental-wise.

The largest of the eight is the 10,000-square-foot home at 672 Halsey Lane in Water Mill, with seven Read More