Worth A Thousand Words?

If the purpose of a site report is to convey an understanding of trade area demographics, it only makes sense that maps were soon included. Even cut-and-paste topographic maps, with hand drawn radii, brought the numbers on the page to life. The early attempts at...

Parcel Tidbits

While our main purpose in building a national parcel database is to enhance our core demographics by tracking change at the address level, along the way we have discovered that we can add to our detail tables with many new data tables. In addition, some of the...

Proposition 13: Five Decades Later

The first of two inflationary periods of the 1970’s began early in the decade and was particularly hard felt in the hot real estate markets of urban California. Property taxes were completely tied to the annual market valuation conducted by the county assessor. During...