StreetSine wins SiTF 2010 award. Thank you for your support.

To all users of StreetSine.com:

Thank you for your trust and confidence in Home Report^TM.

Last night, at the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) Awards, we were selected as the Winner for the Start-up Category. We could not have won this award without the support and trust that you have placed in us. We truly appreciate the interactions we have had with most of you at agency seminars, training sessions, discussions over chats and emails, and one-on-one meetings in coffee houses. Your feedback and support are crucial to the services we provide you.

Our commitment is to provide you with the most relevant and timely property information available so that you have the tools to advise your clients on the very important financial transactions of buying, selling, and renting homes. We look forward to ongoing conversations as we continue to provide new services to you.

We were also selected by SiTF as one of five finalists for the Judges' Choice award. We were surprised by this selection as this award covers all technology categories and the final list was narrowed down from 150 entrants to only five. Gatekeeper Laboratories won this prize with their patented, two-phase cooler for high end computing. This invention will be very important in keeping the back-end of technology up and running so that information companies, like StreetSine, can provide you with uninterrupted services. We are honored to have been short-listed with Gatekeeper and the other finalists.

Please stay tuned to our website and communications as we have many new and exciting services planned for our subscribers in the near future. For example, in the next couple weeks, we will launch the Chinese version of Home Report^TM. This report is in the final testing stages, and we hope that you will find it a useful research and marketing tool for your Chinese-speaking clients, especially those from Mainland China.

Thank you again for your support, and we wish you best success with employing information technology to advise your clients.

Sincerely,
StreetSine Team

StreetSine Blog migrated to StreetSine's new homepage

This blog is migrated to our new homepage at www.streetsine.com. You will be able to view all the news and press releases from StreetSine since day 1.

Check it out!

Goodbye for now.

StreetSine Trainings in Apr

The Analytics Team at StreetSine Pte Ltd is pleased to announce its April training schedule for professional property agents and investors. In response to suggestions from many of our clients, we have enlarged our training program to include three courses on property analytics (S1, S2, and S3) as well as an introductory course on Home Report^®.

Pre-S1: Introduction to Home Report^®
- Every Wed (7 Apr / 14 Apr / 21 Apr / 28 Apr) 2-4pm at HDB Hub Level 17 MindChamps
- For non-subscribers. Simply walk-in.

S1: Employing Analytic Tools to Buy and Sell Residential Property
- Exclusive to Home Report^® Associate & above subscribers
- Click on the dates to register: 6 Apr (Tues) 15 Apr (Thurs) 27 Apr (Tues)

S2: Mastering the Market
- Exclusive to Home Report^® Professional & above subscribers
- Click on the dates to register: 8 Apr (Thurs) 20 Apr (Tues) 28 Apr (Wed)

S3: Advanced Property Analytics
- Exclusive to Home Report^® Investor subscribers
- Click on the dates to register: 13 Apr (Tues) 22 Apr (Thurs) 29 Apr (Thurs)


Please see the News Release below for more details and a description of the courses.

You may also register for our S1 - S3 courses at www.streetsine.com. We look forward to seeing you in April.

StreetSine officially launches HDB Home Report

Many agents have enjoyed great success in their career with our Private Home Reports^®. A number of our subscribers have requested for similar HDB reports.

Today, we are pleased to announce that HDB reports are officially available in StreetSine.

In fact, our HDB report service was made available 16 days ago. Since then, hundreds of reports have been generated by users who have noticed this new addition. We're pleasantly surprised by the keen response of our users even before this official announcement!

Feel free to check out the sample HDB reports in www.streetsine.com .

Training Courses from StreetSine

In response to requests from property agents and investors, StreetSine is pleased to announce that it is offering two types of training courses during the month of March.

Course S1: Introduction to Home Report®

(Every Wed 2-4pm at HDB Hub East Wing, Level 17, MindChamps [Aristotle Room]. Start: Mar 3 2010)

Course S2: Advanced Property Analytics

(On invitation)

Please click on this News Release for more details and a description of the courses.

We look forward to seeing you in March.

Sincerely,
StreetSine Analytics Team

Xmas Present - StreetSine Home Report Improvements

Season's Greetings!

Once again, we've rolled out improvements to our home report with our subscriber's feedback.

1. For investor subscribers, we've replaced Equity Dividend Rate (EDR) with Return-on-Equity (ROE). Unlike EDR, ROE is defined as a return that does not take capital repayments into account. Therefore, ROE will yield relatively higher figures. Most agents find the new ROE definition easier to understand and explain to their clients.

2. We've included a more complete table of contents (aka bookmarks) in the pdf report. Subscribers who present to their clients with a laptop will find the new bookmark useful in jumping to any page or section with a single click.

3. The background watermark is lightened to reduce interference in some printers.

4. The report is copyrighted © to the subscriber for his / her own exclusive use.

We hope you like our Xmas gift to you.

Meanwhile, the StreetSine team is working hard to prepare our Chinese New Year gift to you. Stay tuned!

Merry Christmas,
StreetSine Team

StreetSine featured on Straits Times Digital Life

Back in 2007, one of the founders of StreetSine won in the inaugural ITSC-Google organized 24-hour national programming competition (Xtremeapps). StreetSine was subsequently featured in the Digital Life in May 2008 when the site official launched to the public.

Last week, StreetSine was fortunate to be featured in the Digital Life once again. This time, it was the innovative home report service that gained attention. More than 10,000 home reports were distributed to the hands of property hunters and agents. Many have given us glowing testimonials on the amount of information and analysis that our customized home report has provided for them.

Thank you all for your support. We hope to contribute in our own little way to avert the next property bubble in the market!

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Jeremy Lee, 31 Chief Technology Officer at StreetSine

Application: StreetSine.com, a real-estate data analytics Web portal with more than 1,000 unique visitors daily and over 51,000 property listings

JEREMY Lee loves to make order out of information chaos, inspired by his own frustrations with the property market's lack of transparency when shopping for a flat some years back.

'Our goal is to crunch all the raw property data sitting in silos everywhere and transform them into key information accessible to everyone, so that people can make better decisions,' he explains.

In fact, property hunters are willing to pay $25 a pop at StreetSine for in-depth reports that compare everything from PSF (per square foot) prices to rental yields for condominiums and houses.

StreetSine's Home Report tool, launched in May, has seen over 10,000 reports sold, helping the firm to record a five-figure sum in monthly revenues.

The portal's Java-based tools run like desktop applications but in a Web browser. They link to a sophisticated number-crunching engine built on open source tools like MySQL.

Within seconds, one click of the button transforms publicly available raw data - sourced from the likes of online property transaction records, Google Maps and property listings - into extensive research reports that are the dream of property agents everywhere.

One challenge Jeremy faced was getting StreetSine's interface to look and work the same across different browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox. Using the Google Web Toolkit framework resolved most of the browser consistency issues.

The engineering graduate from the National University of Singapore mastered Java Enterprise Edition and other open source software while working in the Defence Science and Technology Agency. He left after four years to set up StreetSine in 2007 with a partner.

Software developers today, Jeremy says, must be business-savvy.

Ergo, tie-ups with property firms are on the cards, while StreetSine's data analysis technology may also expand to other sectors, such as health-care or Government scenario planning.

'It's no longer about just writing code. We need to be more than just good programmers,' he notes.

'We need business experience and analysis skills too, so that we can improve the products we create for our users.'

Hence, he and his handful of freelance developers spend a quarter of their working hours on tech support and answering queries from customers, in their quest to improve the portal.

To Jeremy, software development is a calling.

'As a software developer, you have the ability to influence many lives with every line of code you write.'