Apartments.com Unveils New Look and New Functionality

Leading Online Rental Resource Offers Impressive Site Modifications

September 24, 2001 --Chicago --National online apartment resource Apartments.com (http://www.apartments.com) unveiled a new version of its Web site, offering a streamlined design and improved navigation. The site now incorporates a Move Manager feature and superior search-sorting controls for consumers, alongside optimized tools in a Property Manager Center tailored to the multi-family housing trade. The Apartments.com site redesign launched concurrently in 85 key markets nationwide on more than 110 newspaper Web sites and on the sites of more than 35 partners.

Furthering a commitment to consistently send quality lease leads to advertisers, site enhancements focus on increasing a consumer's ability to navigate through the million of properties in the Apartments.com database in order to locate, save and contact those that meet their specific search parameters. Similarly, listings have been reformatted to elevate a property's exposure and visually enhance the presentation of interactive community and model information with photography provided by Apartments.com's in-house team of professional photographers.

Apartments.com has integrated MovingCenter, a full-service national online relocation resource, more deeply into the site offerings, capitalizing on strong features like Move Manager, which brings renters expanded apartment search and relocation tools, and My Pick, which offers users the ability to store promising properties for later viewing or printing as a visit sheet. Major advertisers on the MovingCenter will also obtain added exposure on the Apartments.com homepage and throughout the Apartments.com Web site.