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June 18, 2008 at 2:46 pm

If you’ve ever been curious about where and when murders have been taking place in St. Louis City, the Post Dispatch has just made your wish come true. They just posted a map with all the murders in the City over the past three and a half years. The map can be personalized to show murders in only certain years. Read more

June 11, 2008 at 4:07 pm

Technology is a glorious thing. Zilpy, not to be confused with Zillow (which I have always found unreliable), is a new website that tracks rental rates and statistics across the country. It just might be the answer to the age old question of how much to ask for rent on a unit. They pull these statistics from all over the internet from sites such as backpage.com and apartmentfinder.com and use them to populate a surprisingly versatile site. Read more

March 11, 2008 at 7:10 pm

The sheer number and variety of distinctive neighborhoods in the City of St. Louis can be tough to keep track of. With 79 unique neighborhoods, each with their own characteristics and investment opportunities, they all tend to run into one another. If you have ever wanted to know more about these neighborhoods, but didn’t know how, here are a few resources you might want to check out:

  • The City’s neighborhood website has a clickable map of the entire city with specifics on each neighborhood. Great if you are looking for detail.
  • If you’d like a printable neighborhood key to keep track of things offline, check out this neighborhood map (PDF) I put together.
  • Another good resource for keeping tabs of neighborhood boundaries and names is Yahoo Maps. They added a color coded system to their maps a couple of weeks ago that shows the boundaries and names of neighborhoods. Using Yahoo to lookup property locations is a great way to figure out what neighborhood a particular property is located in.