If you’re new to Altos Research, check out our main web site to learn about how we do our real estate market data and how you can benefit from it. It’s time for a nerd break here on the Altos Research blog to help balance Scott’s bout of analytic analysis – so those of you [...]
We like to think we have better and more insightful real estate data than you can get anywhere else. For our real estate agent and broker clients, we also work hard to make it super easy for you to use that data. AltosCharts are the leading real estate market data widgets and have been since [...]
“Information wants to be free.”
In 1984 Stewart Brand proclaimed these words to a roomful of hackers. In the 25 years since, the observation has become the justification for an entire internet economy. Everything’s Free! w00t!
What’s less known is that Brand was not referring to price nor to the value of information, but merely to mobility. [...]
We know that there is never a good time for maintenance, but according to our traffic logs, late night on Saturday is the least worst time. So we’re going to be doing some hardware maintenance on our primary web cluster (we’re installing more memory in a half dozen of our servers) this Saturday, October 10th [...]
Real estate market charts – a.k.a. AltosCharts – is one of the very first features we launched, nearly 4 years ago. They are among our most widely used and popular features. However, we figured it was time to cook up the next generation of data visualization tools – resulting in today’s release of Altos FlashCharts.
Chicago, [...]
Just a quick note to let our customers know that later this evening we will be launching some website updates that will allow you to use PNG (portable network graphics) and GIF images in your personalized reports. In addition to now supporting these two new image types (currently you can only upload JPG files), we’ve [...]
Although we’re still calling the feature ‘beta’, we’re announcing some significant design upgrades to our customized PDF reports. You may recall that a while back we introduced color themes for our widgets (red, green, blue, khaki, brown) in order to give our customers more design options when building their websites using Altos tools.
Well, we’ve now [...]