New Urbandigs Website: Latest Revolution in NYC RE

Have been exploring www.urbandigs.com -- the completely re-engineered site that Noah Rosenblatt has been developing forever. It launched a couple of months ago I think, and in a word, its incredible. The site is, quite simply, a stunning achievement. There wasn’t much of a learning curve. It was 95% intuitive, and I quickly figured out the rest. You can generate comp data with a few clicks and... [more]

Have been exploring www.urbandigs.com -- the completely re-engineered site that Noah Rosenblatt has been developing forever. It launched a couple of months ago I think, and in a word, its incredible. The site is, quite simply, a stunning achievement. There wasn’t much of a learning curve. It was 95% intuitive, and I quickly figured out the rest. You can generate comp data with a few clicks and using all sorts of metrics that you customize. The site will tell you what an apartment within a particular building is worth based on building comps taking into account things like differences in floors, views and renovations. You can compare apartment values in a building to the neighborhood as a whole--or any number of neighborhoods. And you can see what the market is doing overall in seconds. Reports are available that you tailor with a couple of clicks and you can see 6 month, 1 year, multi year trends in sales, inventory, days on market, etc. Graphically the site is impressive in how easy to use it is and how easy it is to find the tools and what you are looking for. Plus, it all works--fast. We've come a LONG WAY since Urban Digs real estate inventory chart on 2009! This is an entirely new level of transparency in the RE market place. If the primary reason for market inefficiency is unequal access to information, this site has to potential to seriously improve the NY RE market. If Streeteasy was the opening shot in the war against the self-serving ways big brokerages used to operate, then this site is the nail in the coffin for the old ways. Consumers win. [less]