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 site offers: “over 4,000 indicators related to demographics, real estate, crime, health, schools, housing […]
Read MorePosted 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 an interesting service. When I went to check it out, I was astonished by the […]
Read MoreBy 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 way to find such answers and see them graphically displayed on a map, or on […]
Read MoreI 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 the “Gallery” box, you will discover that there is a new layer there: “Google News”. […]
Read MorePublished 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 could become a killer tool for homeowners looking to buy a home and for real […]
Read MoreOne of the most common questions that buyer clients ask is – what kind of people live here? Most often (although I do have some stories about profoundly ignorant people) they are asking – “do they have kids here?” or “do the people around here work at UVA?” or “is it safe?” or “how are […]
Read MoreWritten 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. It’s powered by a new Application Programming Interface (API) from commercial mapping service PushPin. That […]
Read MoreUpdate (11/5/2018): PolicyMap now has home sale data from Zillow. Read more here. PolicyMap empowers decision makers with better access to quality data RISMEDIA, May 21, 2008-The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), a not-for-profit national leader in the financing of neighborhood revitalization, has launched PolicyMap, an online mapping tool that empowers decision makers with better access to […]
Read MoreIt’s here! PolicyMap. We at TRF are thrilled to officially launch PolicyMap, a website that combines sophisticated technology and the best analytical tools to deliver a new level of accessibility to data. And we mean all kinds of data – more than 4,000 indicators related to demographics, real estate markets, money and income, education, crime […]
Read MorePosted by Rafe Needleman After the Where 2.0 conference, I had a chance to catch up a bit with Jaron Waldman, the CEO of Placebase, which makes the demo site Pushpin that I covered from the conference. He had another demo to show me, but this one is a bit more useful: PolicyMap. Made for […]
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