San Francisco - MyNewPlace, the Web's fastest growing apartment classifieds site according to Compete, Inc., announced today that two of its employees, Vice President of Technology Ken Cluff and Data Integration Engineer Gabriele Cressman, have been recognized by the NMHC's MITS Project for their contributions to developing apartment industry data exchange standards.
The Multifamily Information and Transactions Standard (MITS) project (www.mitsproject.org) is an industry-wide effort by the apartment rental sector to develop common data standards and XML protocols to facilitate data and systems integration. The MITS standards are freely available as an industry resource. MITS is funded and sponsored by a broad group of industry firms and is supported by the National Multi Housing Council and national outreach partner the National Apartment Association.
MyNewPlace has been an active participant in the MITS process since its inception and employs the MITS standards for data exchange with many of its clients. In presenting the award the MITS committee specifically acknowledged Ms. Cressman's contributions to core components of the MITS standard and the custom extension mechanism.
"The exchange of apartment data via the MITS standard helps us provide the freshest, most up to date listings to the consumers visiting our site," commented Ken Cluff. "The consumers are happy, the apartment owners are happy, and because we're leveraging an XML data standard rather than doing custom integrations from scratch, even my technology team is happy."
MyNewPlace is creating the largest and easiest-to-use online marketplace for apartments and home rentals, connecting renters and owners of all types of properties. When renters find their new place on MyNewPlace, rent and move in, participating properties offer a rebate. Property owners get a no-risk, performance-based solution for filling their vacancies: They do not pay for advertising; instead, they pay for leases. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, MyNewPlace was founded in 2005 by John Helm, the founding CEO of AllApartments/SpringStreet, which became the number one apartment rental and relocation site on the Internet before its sale to Homestore in 1999. For more information visit: www.mynewplace.com
Source: PRweb.com