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Founded in 2006, BlockShopper is a local news and market data service for current and aspiring homeowners, home buyers and home sellers.

In short, we're one part community newspaper, one part ultimate hyper-local real estate research and advertising tool.

Our original news and data make us different. So does our independence. BlockShopper is owned and run by experienced reporters and media executives.

For us, this is a journalistic exercise; we aspire to be part of the "next generation" of local media companies, taking local news gathering to an entirely new level.

Who uses BlockShopper?

Homeowners read our news stories and use BlockShopper to track home sales and other key events-- like foreclosures--  where they live. Who's buying? Who's selling? For how much?

Home buyers use BlockShopper's sales and tax reports to independently assess the properties they are considering. They know our original local real estate data-- collected daily from public records and the public domain-- is the most comprehensive available in the markets BlockShopper serves.

Home Sellers turn to BlockShopper before they set a listing price to get a thorough local look at every single comparable sale in their city, zip, neigborhood, subdivision, or condo development.

Local property investors utilize BlockShopper to hunt for deals in the communities they know better than anyone else. Where are the foreclosures?  How about the bank sales? Which banks own the most property? Where can I find it?

Real estate professionals have found BlockShopper a targeted, cost-effective means of marketing themselves to the prospective buyers and sellers they've been trying to find online. Our audience is highly-engaged, well-informed, and exclusively local.

Where is BlockShopper?

See Blockshopper's current coverage area by clicking here.

Our official offices are in Chicago and St. Louis , but we have people on the ground working for BlockShopper in every community where we publish. Here's our full contact information

And we are expanding. If you'd like us to come to your neck of the woods, let us know.

Who is Blockshopper?

Read more about BlockShopper's team here.

How do I contact BlockShopper?

If you want to advertise, email us.

If you want to write for BlockShopper, email our managing editor. We're always looking for talented writers and photographers-- you mustn't live in one of the communities we serve.

If you have a correction or comment about one of our news stories , email the corrections department. We have a rigorous editorial process but that doesn't mean our writers are infallible.  Please, please, please-- let us know if you believe we've been in error. We'll not only correct the issue promptly, we'll run a prominent correction calling ourselves out for making the mistake.

If you believe some of our data is in error, email our data QA team with the details. Be sure to include a link to the page on which you found it. Thanks in advance for your help!

For other questions, comments, compliments, and suggestions, email our Director of Customer Service Scarlett Simpson. If she cannot help you, she'll try to find someone who can.