link to old streeteasy

The old site is refresshing to behold again!!!

Whew! Now I can get work done again.

Much better maybe I will renew!

olr.com

let's see how long this site stays up.

They stated the classic is going to be up for a tempory period, then we're going back to the useless new design or a variation of it. I think we're all getting excited over nothing with the classic being back....

Thanks for posting the old site. What idiots they are!

Finally!!! Thanks for the link.

Thank god. I can't explain how much I missed it.

The new site is totally useless. No search results regardless of the criteria entered. Bring back the old! Zillow should leave street easy alone.

Having spent last night with my girlfriend looking at investment properties in Miami online and using Zillow for some of it, I am now considering ending my life. It is by far, the worst internet product and idea that I've ever used. Furthermore, having just evaluated their stock and reading the various news associated with the company and the apparently oblivious management in place -- read all the financial publications -- they're souring on this company real fast and it's ironic that I'm reading this after having witnessed what we did this week with Streeteasy. Thanks Zillow for exposing your own faults! If I were on margin and I could short the stock, I would risk every nickel I have. Shit at its current price and buying it back at $30 bucks 6 months from now seems almost inevitable. This sucker is toast and valued wayyyy too high. I'm buying some puts this week.

http://www.inman.com/2013/09/20/zillows-share-price-takes-a-hit-as-citron-strikes-again/
Just repasting what's already been written and strangely echoes precisely what I stated prior to reading these articles.

I find it unbelievable that ZILLOW is trading at $98/share while GM is trading at $32. This is what's fucked up about our economy.

NYCMatt -- $83 a share, but point taken. It's high was $98. I'm not even in finance, but it really couldn't be any more obvious that a more appropriate valuation for zillow is somewhere in the range of $24-27 a share. I mean Facebook, another stupid company has been valued at what? $100billion and that's trading at $51 a share and has a global range. The explosive increase in the Zillow stock price this past year has been unsupported by any real earnings and they're spending too much. Keep issuing shares so "insiders" can liquidate at these inflated prices. Do I have that right? Frankly, I didn't even realize prior to this week that Zillow was a public company that's how little I thought about it. Now having seen what's going on and hearing Rascoff's statement's comparing it to Linkedin (uh, yeah, ok) and their entirely unfounded $3.7 billion valuation, well it's not hard to see what direction their stock price will be heading. Their business model is stitching together a train wreck of misinformation, at best and viewing it through a bottomless pit of never ending scrolling. That's fun for about 15 seconds. Read the comments on all these sites discussing Zillow. Many are from regional realtors, which should be their core revenue stream and interestingly the trail of comments is mainly negative. Somewhat like what has been said this week on the Streeteasy forums. I'm just tired of seeing these crap companies and their management teams make millions (some cases hundreds of millions) with complete garbage.

So who are the brainiacs behind these ridiculous evaluations?

28-year-old Wall Street "analysts" who grew up in the Internet Age who don't really know anything about anything?

Why the hell should I even work for a living anymore? Just create something out of thin air and get it "valued" at 400 kajillion dollars and cash out before the world catches on that it's all BS.

>Just create something out of thin air and get it "valued" at 400 kajillion dollars and cash out before the world catches on that it's all BS.

And no need to pay dues to 8 unions!

so...

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why?

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/4017

Oh that feels good

Thank you...

I wish there was some way to access our folders from the new site. I hope we don't lose them because I actually use this feature. Maybe it isn't a popular feature, but as far as I can tell there is no way to access them from the new site.

Such an improvement over the new Streeteasy!

new design is absolutely horrible. Now i will return and check Streeteasy again. I was on the verge of cancelling my membership.

Dumb new design, not user friendly.

horrible design, will miss the "real" streeteasy

Ditto every complaint. Let's hope this stays up...

but--if the new site stays this bad, impressions will go down and agents will have less incentive to update and correct listings on the site. I'm not hopeful...

The new design in horrible!!!!

@cmpizz - Not that I wish to encourage use of the new streeteasy but folders are accessible from the black bar at the top of the page, just to the left of your login

Thank you.

Horrible, cant beleive it, they went back instead of moving forward

Old site is back!!! Thank you Street Easy!

The new site is terrible...please change it back!

StreetEasy - please leave the old site up for longer than a month. Please take your time to design a site that will benefit all

re: StreetEasy - please leave the old site up for longer than a month.

Yeah like just pretend it never happened and we will all forget about it completely. New site, what new site? There was never a new site.

hahahaha West34, i couldnt agree more......

Will miss it too!

As a real estate broker I think Streeteasy made a huge mistate in redesigning their site. I hate the new one. Who's idea was it? They have grown in leaps and bounds on the strength of the old site.....they are going to lose a lot of people beginning with me.

I agree and as I said before my premium membership is gone when it renews later this month

Just tried to access South Florida on SE and guess what? Gone, along with Philly and DC. If temporary, ok then, but really?

I just find it super hard to SEE anything on this new site, it's all so spread out. It's very diffuse, not informative at all.

Ugh. I might have to drop the insider subscription just because it's so hard to get any info out of this thing.

thank you for the link!!

Streeteasy team: Surely the new format is more applicable for ipad and mobile user while the older one for desktop power users?

Idiot Manhattanites!! What's the big problem -- are you all too old and stupid to adjust to something new? You can still find information about properties, and you still have this forum to show your fangs and viciousness. So, what's the huge problem?

Crazyccardo!

And now for some good news. Notice on this thread how swift the new SE was to gray out an unfortunate personality. That's all I've got.

Matt - it's a "valuation" not an "evaluation".

Maybe if you knew the difference, your thoughts on the stock market might begin to make more sense.

This old link is sure to die soon. I keep coming across situations where I'm forced into the new useless StreetEasy. I had to bookmark the link to the old one and repeatedly go back to it today.

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Noted the comment on Streeteasy's home page that 'if you are feeling nostalgic you can visit the old Streeteasy' . The message is clear - not that the new site is patently inferior but the problem is our 'nostalgia'. Sounds patently contemptuous to me!

We have to get over it ~ they haven't a clue!

Thanks for continuing to bump this. The new site just hurts my eyes. It looks so cheap and junky compared with the original. Why, Streeteasy, why?

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thank you JMGJAG http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/36756-new-layout

you are magic - as a normal sane dude just looking for an apartment who would think a normal link could make a guys day - looking has been awful these past two weeks - thank you thank you thank you.

and to to the navi dude up there who said they moved backwards instead of forward - what is forward if the product is ineffectual? and by the way - the new product is less effectual on smaller screens and the world is all about smaller screens

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keep it on the front page...

To the top of the page it goes.

and again

Miss the old site....Glad to have it back!

must say the new design is horrendous. and the info on non nyc sites is as useless as zillow info has always been.

As a landlord whos lists my apts here, I have been getting FAR less "hits"

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Is this change because Google Maps now makes you pay a modest fee per thousand hits to its API, and the new design makes it refresh the map fewer times?

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They are slowly morphing the old site into the new site. Notice the new drop-down menus and the poorly rendered SE logo at the top of the page.

I need to write this link on my hand.

I noticed they are slowly changing into the new site. Once the old site is gone - so am I . . .

Noticed that as well. It appears that we are again losing some functionality (even with the link to the original site). For example, is it true that we can no longer do a building search / look for buildings by architect, management,developer? Perhaps I just can't find it?

The lovely new SE ( gag ) seems to be slower, too, or is that just me?

This is such a shame, since there is nothing that really takes the place of SE.

StreetEasy had become the go-to site for brokers and buyers alike. Zillow is worthless for NYC real estate. PLEASE bring back the original StreetEasy not for nostalgia but for better business.

I think Zillow bought SE just to destroy it.

A similar thing happened with a real estate website that used to give excellent estimates of market value, far more nuanced than things like zillow. I used it many times. One of the big banks bought the site and then shut it down.

I rather wish zillow would just kill the site rather than make it suffer and die a slow agonizing death.

for $50 million the option is theirs.

clever comment C0C0!

I'm happy to say people are able to find places to buy despite the new SE design.

This isn't New Coke. Companies do come out with new lay-outs. They will insist you switch knowing full well it's suicidal for a company not to embrace change. They do want your feedback however. They are interested in fixing bugs, not in hearing from people that they want DOS instead of Windows.

greenberg, refer to columbiacounty's most recent comment here.

Do you mean greensdale?

Alan, have you even visited c0lumbiac0unty in his home in C0lumbia C0unty?

One unsolvable problem I have with the new design is that it looks like something for kids to play with.

New York City real estate is the one of the most serious markets in the USA and perhaps the world. To have something that looks like a teaching tool for toddlers when you're dealing with such large amounts of money, not to mention the emotional piece, is just a big turn off for me.

> it looks like something for kids to play with.

Have you read some of the posters around here?

I can't believe the NEW streeteasy is the dafault page once again.

Streeeasy : ARE YOU LISTENING/READING the over 90 comments about how much we HATE the NEW LOOK?

Zillow is not interested. StreetEasy as we know it will be gone shortly. I cancelled my subscription as it is not worth the money any longer. I only subscribed to StreetEasy because they extracted all the documents from ACRIS for apartments in NYC by building. The new layout is not worth the monthly subscription. I just go directly to ACRIS now when I see something on NY Time Real Estate.

all started here: https://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/31183-board-dying

The open house planner is not working as it used to. I've not been able to email my open house schedule.

Did no one see the post where StreetEasy said that they have been using the new format for months & love it? Whether that is true or just BS/CYA for the sake of job security, the writing is on the wall. Cry all you want but the new, inferior SE is here to stay.

They definitely make it almost impossible to track the selling/listng history of a property. This whole business of "price reduced X number of days ago" is laughable - don't know why they think that is preferable to the old listing format with day and date information.

Why can't a new tech savvy computer guy start up something similar to the old streeteasy? The new owners would appear to be letting go of something that others can utilize even if the format would need to be changed a little for legal reasons.

I think Zillow wants to make SE more desirable to the brokerage industry, which is basically how they get paid (I suspect insider accounts are not much).

I always thought SE had the mission of trying to make brokers irrelevant to buyers, if not to sellers.

The brokerage industry does not want consumers who can easily research a property. The truth is, there is a LOT of public information on real estate, but not all of it is on line, or free to obtain online. Some research can only be done with shoe leather and don't let anybody ever tell you differently.

Consider the broker v. the public portals of OLR. Why should they be so different? Commissions are the only thing that is justifiably not public information on OLR. Yet the public OLR is extremely minimal compared to the broker portal. This is to try to force buyers to use an agent.

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I agree with yikes, because low level programmers are hard to find, they will definitely be valuable.

fieldchester (riversider) if you knew anything more than how to dredge up old threads and post pointless news artciles you'd know that in IT project management, intimate familiarity with data feeds and the database is practically priceless

West34 (Riversider). Familiarity with data feeds and a database is hard? Creating an interface is hard? Are you making this up because you don't like me (which is fine) or thats your actual level of knowledge?