Street News: May 2009

The BNYMLS is the largest Realtor organization in Brooklyn and we’ve recently added all of their listings to StreetEasy, with full access to data like addresses & price history. This addition adds around 2,500 listings to the borough from over 200 member firms.

See The Real Deal for more detail on this exciting new partnership!

New and improved building page

Our new building activity table has three tabs:

1. Sales & rentals Tab
2. Documents Tab
3. Unit Tabs

Sales & Rentals Tab

The Sales & rentals tab aggregates all the past listing information we have on a building. On the tab you can find past history of both sales and rentals listings as well as recorded sales information from the Department of Finance. Whenever we are able to match a recorded sales to a listing we will show that match as well as the premium or discount the property was sold at.

This tab contains 8 columns:

1. Type – Weather the listing is a Rental or a Sale
2. Date – Date when the listing came out of the market (Sold, Rented, delisted, no longer available or other)
3. Unit – Unit number in reference
4. Closing Price – Recorded Sales price for the unit according to Department of Finance
5. Listing Price – Last price available for the listing before it came of the market
6. Beds – Number of Bedrooms in the listing
7. Bath – Number of bathrooms in the listing.
8. Sqft – Size of apartment on a square foot basis.

Users can sort activity by date, unit number, price, BR, baths, and size.
They can also filter by one or more unit numbers, as well as by sales and rental listings.

Documents tab

In addition to recorded sales data from the Department of Finance, we’ve compiled additional public records such as ACRIS personal property records (e.g, liens, agreements, leases, mortgage info, etc.) as well as Department of Buildings permit applications, and complaints – all at the building level and at the unit level. Insiders can sort by document type, date, unit(s) and agency source.

This tab contains 5 columns:

1. Source – Where the record comes from. It can be either Department of Buildings Jobs, Department of Buildings Complaints or Department of Finance ACRIS
2. Date – Date when the document was recorded
3. Unit – Unit number in reference
4. Document type – Describes the type of document we have recorded such as Alterations, Subordination of Mortgage Ucc3 Termination, etc… (For a full list please see our Glossary of document types)
5. Details – Either parties involved on the document or a link to see more on StreetEasy.

Unit Tab

A summary on a building level of all the units in the building and their activity, allowing users to click through to a particular unit’s property page.

This tab has 6 columns:

1. Unit – Unit number of the property in reference
2. Active Sales – Number of active Sales listing for that unit
3. Past Sales – Number of past Sales listings for that unit
4. Active Rentals – Number of active Rentals listing for that unit
5. Past Rentals – Number of past Rentals listings for that unit
6. Documents – Number of documents we have for that unit. Includes all type of documents (ACRIS and DOB)