Rent Jungle Hosts Walk Score Rankings For Apartment Listings, Helping Apartment Hunters

Pittsburgh (I-Newswire) August 2, 2011 - Rent Jungle (www.rentjungle.com) has partnered with industry leading Walk Score (www.walkscore.com) to showcase local business within walking range to any given address, and to help renters engage with their community. Users will enjoy seeing their own Walkability score and gauge it against other addresses, including famous locations and luminaries’ homes. Along with neighborhood information found on the site, apartment hunters are now able to find the most pedestrian friendly apartments available. Users will also be able to find new apartments using the Walk Score rankings alongside Rent Jungle’s apartment search engine to find the perfect home.

Walk Score finds local businesses that are necessary or appreciated by urbanites, collects them on a map view and bases the area’s Walkability score on how many businesses lie within one mile’s walking distance. Rent Jungle has added Walk Score rankings to each listing, making Rent Jungle the one-stop-shop for finding an apartment, scoping out the neighborhood’s businesses, and moving into the perfect home. “We’ve seen that apartment hunters appreciate any information they can get about new neighborhoods,” commented CEO Jon Pastor, “and our partnership with Walk Score working alongside our apartment search engine makes Rent Jungle the best site to find new homes.”

Rent Jungle currently implements the Walk Score data onto each listing to show its walkability ranking on the map and list views. Users can expect to find how easy it is to live in any given area based on the proximity of amenities nearby, allowing for the most informed decision when apartment hunting. Rent Jungle hopes to use the Walk Score data in the future to show distances to amenities, rate their own addresses, and rate addresses of friends and family.


About Rent Jungle

Rent Jungle (http://www.rentjungle.com/), launched in October, 2010, is the most comprehensive rental listing site on the web. It works much like other search engines in that it scours the internet to amass apartment listings from a variety of sites. Unlike other search engines, Rent Jungle specializes only in apartments and rental housing. Users can search, sort and bookmark individual listings, as well as save them for later use. Users can also view listings on an innovative user-friendly map, powered by Google. Rent Jungle was founded to fill a void in the online real estate market by offering a simple, easy-to-use directory and one-stop-shop destination for renters.


Company Information
Site: www.rentjungle.com
Founded: 2009
Ownership: Private
Management:
Jon Pastor, CEO and Co-Founder
Geng Wang, CMO and Co-Founder
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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700 River Avenue, Suite 542
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
877.300.2505
www.rentjungle.com
email: press@rentjungle.com

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