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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