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COMPANY FACTS
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
184
HISTORY
Founded as
Visual Properties, 1992
Acquired by Classified Ventures, December
1997
Re-launched as Apartments.com, March 1998
DESCRIPTION
National
online apartment guide and relocation resource
LOCATION
175 West
Jackson, 8th floor
Chicago, IL 60604
p: 312-601-5000
f:
312-601-5115
OWNERSHIP
Classified
Ventures, Inc.
AUDIENCES
Renters
Apartments.com helps renters
reduce the time and effort spent finding an apartment through:
- Free customized searches of
its national apartment database
- Dozens of interior and
exterior photos, plus floor plans and in-depth textual detail for
each premium apartment community listing on the service
- Classified listings, updated
daily from more than 140 newspapers
- Detailed local maps, driving
directions and community information Instant contact with property
managers (via email or toll-free telephone number)
- Access to MovingCenter, where
renters can arrange truck and furniture rental, instantly check
their credit report, change their address and more
Property Management
Companies
Apartments.com creates the industry's most
visually detailed apartment ads for many of the largest property
management companies in the country, including Equity Residential,
AIMCO, Lincoln Property Company, Archstone-Smith, United Dominion,
Sentinel, Camden and Post Properties.
By developing such
comprehensive presentations of apartment communities and
distributing them where renters congregate online, Apartments.com
delivers to its customers highly qualified, ready-to-rent prospects,
which increases their closure rate and decreases their average cost
to lease an apartment.
ONLINE DISTRIBUTION
In
addition to circulation through the Classified Ventures Affiliate
newspaper network Web site and print assets, Apartments.com
distributes its content to renters through prominent search engines,
directories and online communities, including:
- Google
- Yahoo!
- MSN
- AOL Real Estate
- Ask.com
- 24/7 Search
- USA Today
NEWSPAPER AFFILIATES
Apartments.com enjoys an exclusive affiliation with
the local newspaper and television station Web sites of more than
140 affiliates across the country, including the Chicago Tribune, The Washington
Post, Los Angeles
Times and Miami Herald.
The investor owners of Apartments.com, a division of Chicago-based
Classified Ventures, LLC, are: Belo Corp., Gannett Co., Inc.,
The McClatchy Company, Tribune Company and The Washington Post
Company.
For more information about Apartments.com,
visit its online pressroom here.
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