ABOUT US
OVERVIEW Based in Chicago, Apartments.com
is a national online apartment guide and relocation resource
distinguished by its highly customized searches, superior visual ads
and affiliation with more than 180 newspapers and strategic partners across the country.
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 Reality Trust (UDRT) , 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.
NEWSPAPERS More
than 140 newspapers and strategic partners across the U.S. have selected Apartments.com to be the exclusive provider of visual apartment listings for their Web sites. Apartments.com represents these newspapers' solution to expand their position as the leading provider of local apartment information to the Internet. Apartments.com is currently available through the local Web sites of some of the leading newspapers in the country, including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Arizona Republic.
Apartments.com
also integrates the most current apartment classified listings from
its newspaper affiliates into its national database of visual
content, offering renters one of the most comprehensive sources of
apartment information available online.
Apartments.com
currently represents millions of apartments in all 50 states and
Washington, D.C.
DISTRIBUTION
In addition to distribution
through more than 180 affiliated newspaper and strategic partner Web
sites, 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
For more information on strategic partnerships, please contact Colleen Sloan at csloan@apartments.com.
HISTORY Visual
Properties, L.L.C., a Chicagoland apartment locator service founded
in 1992, launched the Apartments Plus Web site in January 1997 to
support its local retail apartment locator business. The site
included national listings by April 1997 and in December 1997,
Classified Ventures acquired ApartmentsPlus as its online apartment
advertising solution for newspapers nationwide. ApartmentsPlus was
re-launched as Apartments.com in March 1998 and is focused solely on
the Internet. Apartments.com became a member of HomeScape.com in
July 2000.
OWNERSHIP Apartments.com is owned by Classified Ventures, LLC,
which is also based in Chicago. Classified Ventures is owned by five
leading media companies: Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC), Gannett Co., Inc.
(NYSE: GCI), The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI), Tribune Company
(NYSE: TRB) and The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). Classified
Ventures provides national and locally branded online services for
e-commerce opportunities in various classified advertising
marketplaces that build upon the capabilities and local expertise of
its national affiliate network.
Classified Ventures' products are Apartments.com, Cars.com,
HomeScape ASP, a real estate private-label application service
provider, HomeGain.com and NewCars.com.
MANAGEMENT
- Kevin Doyle, Senior Vice President and General
Manager
- Pat Anderson, Chief Technology Officer
- Cristen Baczak, Vice President of Operations
- Chris Brown, Vice President of Product Development
- Ketan Thakker, Chief Financial Officer
- Brad Long , Vice President of Sales
APARTMENTS.COM SPEAKERS Apartments.com is fortunate to have the
focused expertise of many seasoned industry professionals who are
available for industry speaking engagements
LOCATION 175 West
Jackson, 8th floor Chicago, IL 60604 Toll free,
888-658-RENT p: 312-601-5000 f: 312-601-5115
CUSTOMER SERVICE /
FEEDBACK
To request changes to your ad, login to Property Updater here, email support@apartments.com or
call 888-658-RENT (7368) x3.
To send a comment or question to Apartments.com email feedback@apartments.com.
MARKETING CONTACT
Maureen Boyle Director of
Marketing Apartments.com
mboyle@apartments.com
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