Monthly Archives: May 2008

Where the Subprimes Went

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Phil Vu

Here’s a tool likely to be useful to armchair developers interested in the lay of the land. PolicyMap is a new GIS website that allows you to view a range of local market and demographic data for Houston or any … Continue reading →

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Coolest Tool Yet: PolicyMap

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Phil Vu

By Suzy Trotta OK, I’ve shared some websites with you before that I thought were pretty cool. And at the time I shared them, they were. But that was before @Admore tipped me off to PolicyMap.PolicyMap is a brand new … Continue reading →

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policymap.com – all the demographic data you need !

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Phil Vu

By James Wexzilla Joel Burslem, Founder and author , of one of the best real estate blogs, Future of Real Estate Marketing.com , recently brought attention to , as he describes, a “pretty cool” new site called PolicyMap.com ; the … Continue reading →

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PolicyMap Offers Tons Of Info For Investors And Developers

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Phil Vu

Posted by: Eric Ames PolicyMap is a new online service that was created by The Reinvestment Fund, a non-profit organization that funds neighborhood redevelopment. I read about PolicyMap on Future of Real Estate Marketing blog and thought it sounded like … Continue reading →

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Web site provides wealth of housing data

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Phil Vu

By Carolyn Said, E-mail Carolyn Said at csaid@sfchronicle.com Want to know the distribution of household incomes in your neighborhood? How about the percentage of homes that were refinanced a couple of years ago? A new free online resource offers a … Continue reading →

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Excellent Competitive Intel, Law Enforcement Intel, World News Mapping Resources (PolicyMap And Google Earth)

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Phil Vu

I stumbled across two good mapping resources last night. The first is actually a new service available through Google Earth. If you look at the “Layers” now available in Google Earth (in the lower left hand panel) and you check … Continue reading →

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PolicyMap – Killer tool for real estate

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Phil Vu

Published by Morgan I just found out about PolicyMap a new service that lets you map an insane amount of data by region on all subjects ranging from mortgage originations, neighborhood crime stats and income demographics (and tons more).  This … Continue reading →

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Policy Maps for today’s real estate consumer

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Phil Vu

Policy Maps for today’s real estate consumer by Jim Duncan on May 22, 2008 One of the most common questions that buyer clients ask is – what kind of people live here? Most often (although I do have some stories … Continue reading →

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PolicyMap Maps A Metric Crapload of Data

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Phil Vu

By Joel Burslem This is pretty cool. PolicyMap is a new site by The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), a national not-for-profit organization that finances neighborhood revitalization. It’s a Google Maps mashup on steroids. They offer “4,000 indicators related to demographics, real … Continue reading →

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PolicyMap (API): Demographic Data on Your Neighborhood

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Phil Vu

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick PolicyMap is a new website that offers more than 4,000 points of data about any location in the United States, including demographics, real estate markets, crime, schools, housing affordability, employment type, energy consumption, and public investments. … Continue reading →

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