Apartments.com Fact Sheet

Apartments.com Description
National online apartment guide and relocation resource

Web Address
http://www.apartments.com

Vertical Location
175 W. Jackson Suite 800
Chicago, IL 60604

Ownership
Classified Ventures, LLC

History
Founded as Visual Properties, 1992
Acquired by Classified Ventures, Inc., December 1997
Re-launched as Apartments.com, March 1998

Consumer Benefit
Help renters significantly reduce the time and effort spent apartment hunting by providing personalized searches, superior visual content and the most current classifieds from newspapers across the nation.

Services

Renters
Apartments.com helps renters reduce the time and effort spent finding an apartment through:

• Free customized searches of its national apartment databaseDozens 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.  

Content Distribution

• Google
• Yahoo!
• MSN
• AOL
• Ask.com
• 24/7 Search
• USA Today

Newspaper Affiliates
The media company owners of Classified Ventures boast a combined Sunday circulation of more than 24 million. Apartments.com has been launched as the exclusive apartment resource on the web sites of more than 180 of these local newspapers and television stations from across the country, including:

• The Washington Post
• Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Los Angeles Times
• Arizona Republic
• Orlando Sentinel
• Chicago Tribune