Apartments.com, one of the fastest-growing national online apartment guides and relocation resources,
is now the exclusive provider of apartment listings on USATODAY.com, a top
three general interest news site on the Internet.
Apartment hunters can now visit the Real Estate Marketplace on USATODAY.com
and begin their personalized search of the Apartments.com database, which
includes the industry's most in-depth, visual apartment ads as well as
current classified listings aggregated from many of the nation's leading
newspapers.
"Using the Internet can significantly reduce the time, effort and
frustration typically associated with searching for an apartment, especially
when relocating from one city to another," said Bruce Mitchell, president
and general manager of Apartments.com. "By providing our detailed apartment
and relocation information on such a popular online destination as
USATODAY.com, we make it easier for renters to access a tremendously
powerful and convenient resource. Plus, our property management customers
will receive increased visibility of their ads, which will generate more
qualified leads and lower their average cost to rent an apartment," he said.
While using Apartments.com through USATODAY.com, users can also visit the
Moving Center (www.movingcenter.com), Apartments.com's one-stop relocation
resource. The Moving Center enables consumers to arrange truck and furniture
rental, calculate their salary in different cities, instantly check their
credit report online, change their address and more.
Visitors to Apartments.com increased by 35% in January 1999 over November
1998 according to I/PRO, a leading Internet audience measurement service,
and based on an internal audit, traffic to Apartments.com in January 1999
was up nearly 700% versus January 1998. USATODAY.com receives 21 million
visitors per month, according to I/PRO.
Apartments.com currently represents about 800,000 apartments and is featured
on the web sites of 20 newspaper affiliates, including The Washington Post,
Los Angeles Times and Minneapolis Star-Tribune, with more than 110 scheduled
to launch by the end of 1999.
Published: March 1, 1999
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