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YourStreet.com Launches First Real Estate Website to Connect Neighbors
YourStreet.com empowers consumers to make smarter decisions about where to buy or rent. Learning about a neighborhood is a crucial step in the home buying or renting process, but until now community information online has consisted of business reviews or dry statistics.
YourStreet.com brings neighborhoods to life by tapping into the unique perspectives of local experts - the people who live there. Local residents and those from outside an area can gain valuable insider knowledge about a community by learning what neighbors say about topics like the quality of local schools, how the housing market is faring in their area, how long the commute is, and how new developments will affect the neighborhood.
YourStreet.com uses a variety of social networking tools to facilitate online conversations and harness the knowledge of local residents:
* YourStreet.com’s innovative Market Monitor charts give homebuyers and sellers a unique tool to track whether the local real estate market is currently tilted toward buyers or sellers. Visitors to the site rate their local markets on a scale of 0 to 10 and these votes are averaged together to produce a continually updated chart of consumer opinion for each neighborhood.
* Detailed user-generated wikis for each neighborhood provide in-depth information on the community, including shops and entertainment, schools and places of worship, the commute, and the best and worst aspects of the area.
* User-submitted local news articles and photos keep residents up-to-date about what’s going on in their neighborhood.
* Community forums and neighbor profiles allow locals to connect and learn more about each other.
To ensure reliable content, users rank the quality of opinions and information added to the site, elevating the most useful and accurate knowledge to the top.
YourStreet.com supplements the user-generated content with continually updated relevant news articles and blog posts from around the web organized by topic and locality.
"YourStreet.com is a resource for anyone who wants to discover a new community or find out more about their own," said James Nicholson, CEO and founder. "We provide a forum for locals to share knowledge and learn from one another. YourStreet.com is much more than a local reviews site - it’s a platform that connects communities."
YourStreet.com launches in five metro areas: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Phoenix. Within these five areas, YourStreet.com provides detailed information on more than 175 neighborhoods and towns. The site will soon expand into Boston, Chicago, Miami, San Diego and Dallas, and will cover the top 50 metro areas by the end of the year.
About YourStreet, Inc.
YourStreet, Inc. was started in 2006 by a group of Internet veterans. Founder and CEO James Nicholson was formerly founder and CEO of NetVentures, a pioneering e-commerce software company sold to CNET in 1999; Spencer Liu is the former Creative Director at CNET; and Paul Rush is a longtime entrepreneur and web software architect. YourStreet, Inc. is based in San Francisco.
YourStreet.com screenshots and logos are available for download at www.yourstreetblog.com.
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