Of course, the explosion of detailed real estate data online has produced confusion as well.
He is also co-owner of a company called Case Shiller Weiss Inc., which collects real estate data.
HERB BLECHER,a senior vice president at LPS, a real estate data firm, speaking about a backlog in the system.
Michael Feder, the chief executive of the real estate data firm Radar Logic, expects prices to "get whacked" this autumn.
The number of foreclosure filings in July was almost double that of a year ago, according to RealtyTrac, which provides real estate data.
In May 1996, according to Relocate, a real estate data service, Helmsley-Spear was managing about 28 million square feet in 107 buildings in New York.
"Manhattan Condo Guide" is the second edition of a book first produced four years ago by Yale Robbins Inc., a publisher of real estate data.
(Home prices in the area, however, are at record highs, according to DataQuick Information Systems, a real estate data firm based in San Diego).
A company spokeswoman said the claim was based on the volume of commercial leasing by the two companies as reported by the CoStar real estate data reporting service.
According to PropertyShark.com, an online company that tracks real estate data, Staten Island has less than a quarter of the households that Queens does.
These blogs, while they perform the noble service of tracking the movement of prices and other real estate data in local markets, are great outlets for schadenfreude.
