Our favorites (from the past few weeks):
Gotta love apartment hunting in NYC. I only click on broker listings like “BEST DEAL EVARR ZOMG” or equivalent so I know they’re serious.
@razorjamon (Editorial note: here’s a related infographic.)
What do vacuum cleaners and searching for apartments in NYC have in common?
@abnerwillis
How is it easier to find a decent guy in #nyc than it is to find a decent apartment?
@LaDyVeNZ
For one thing, we could all save a bundle by moving to Detroit or Phoenix. If that’s not an option, consider looking in neighborhoods adjacent to your desired ones – eg Bushwick instead of Williamsburg – to find some significant savings without moving too far.
All that and more, plus some nifty icons!
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Craigslist is usually thought of as a simple classifieds site – that’s entirely free. What many don’t know, however, is that apartment listings are not free for NYC brokers. It costs up to $10 per post. (In addition to NYC brokered rentals, the site also charges $25-$75 per job posting in 19 major markets and $10 for “Therapeutic Services”. See Craigslist Pricing.)
So how much money is Craigslist pulling in from the NYC broker community? Based on our data sample of a full week in April, and the current rate of $10 per ad, Craigslist revenues are approximately $287,000 per week, which over a full year comes to about $15 million dollars.
Using a “futuristic wall system,” a Hong Kong architect converts a tiny space into 24 rooms.
60 miles west of London, now on the market for $742K.
Kate's Childhood Home
Interiors and Garden
or, “how NYC brokers describe their apartments”.
We word-crunched the descriptions of some 8,000 apartments advertised on Craigslist, Naked Apartments, and other major NYC rental sites and came up with some interesting results.
So you want to live in Manhattan and want to live somewhere downtown, but don’t really care which neighborhood. Well, since we love you so much, we launched a new feature just for you. Instead of choosing all “downtown” neighborhoods one-by-one, now simply choose…. “downtown” and use the pretty map to help you.
This feature is available for all neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.
The feature is oh so easy, and so far, you seem to like it. It’s already been used over 20,000 times.
Hey Landlords and Brokers!
We’re excited to announce the launch of our newest feature. As a Plus or Premium plan subscriber, you now get your own exclusive website with everything you need to market yourself: a personal overview page, a listings page with advanced search functionality, mapped results, reviews, and social media tools including Facebook and Twitter.
You now have your own version of Naked Apartments, all to yourself and without any of our branding. It’s all about you, all in one place.
And it’s FREE for all Plus and Premium plan subscribers
Check out ourdemo site and start building yourown sitetoday.
What are the top 5 neighborhoods in Brooklyn? What’s the top ‘hood in manhattan? What amenity is most important to renters – that a building be pet-friendly? Or that it have someone on the door?
We crunched the numbers and came up with some interesting stats.
A few weeks back we at naked apartments conducted a little test. (We like tests, because the answer is almost always not what we expect.)
We ran what’s called an A/B test: we created two versions of our home page. The “A” version had a big button (the “call to action”, or “CTA” in marketing-speak) that said “Create a Profile”. The “B” version had an identical button, but it read “Search Now”. Visitors were shown one version or the other.
