This is the official site for the Greater Syracuse Association of Realtors and the Central New York Information Service. There are plenty of resources, from looking up brokers and agents to education on the home-buying process.
This is a sub site of Civilrights.org that’s registered to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. It provides information on housing discrimination and fair housing laws, which is useful for stories on housing discrimination. Contact information for all state housing agencies is also available.
Great resource for local information about tenant issues in Syracuse. This group represents tenant issues and advocates for them. Lots of resources on the site.
This is do-it-yourself-er’s dream come true – a website devoted to household projects. It is most useful if you’re doing a story on the economics of home repair. It’s run by an author and self-proclaimed home-improvement expert Don Vandervort, who works out of California.
This website offers an impressive wealth of data and research on housing and is run by the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. See the page for media and click at the right for recent press releases. This site is more academic than some on the list.
Here you can find the county’s official information on property taxes for homes –either in the city or the county. This is helpful for the values of local houses or stories on disparities in values. It also offers useful contact information for local tax receivers.
The National Association of Realtors runs this website and offers plenty of resources, including information just for news media.
HUD is a great resource for homeowners. The site holds information on home ownership as well as ways to work with HUD. This is an important website when you are looking for national trends to localize.
This federal government site is useful to compare statistics from Syracuse to the national trends, but check to see when it was last updated.