Joel Burslem , Founder and author , of one of the best real estate blogs, Future of Real Estate Marketing.com , recently brought attention to , as he describes, a “pretty cool” new site called PolicyMap.com ; the site offers :
In Joel Burslem’s Blog about PolicyMap , he points out that he could “see (him) self possibly using PolicyMap to investigate a move to a new neighborhood”
As a Realtor at Coldwell Banker , I am often asked about specific demographic questions such as racial makeup, religion base, gender, age, criminality, etc…
However, for several reasons, including not knowing such changing data well enough to answer, the actual answers clients are looking for, and most importantly, Fair Housing Laws protecting discrimination, I am not at liberty to discuss.
However, as a Real Estate professional, I want my clients to have the information, they need personally, to make the right decision on where to live for their family. Policy Map provides one of the best tools on the market to point buyers , sellers , investors and Realtors to, as they describe, a “goldmine of information” you need to make an informed buying or selling decision .
Click here to read this article which appeared on Wexzilla on May 24th, 2008.