Housing booms or busts don't last long and people often fail to realize the transition from one to the other Irrelevant. Whether boom or bust, people still lo

Housing booms or busts don't last long and people often fail to realize the transition from one to the other Irrelevant. Whether boom or bust, people still look for housing, especially apartments. He could expand the offering to cover more than just university student housing. For example, I just bought a house in August 2012 (during a down market), and it would have been useful to have a snapshot of the neighborhood (how many grocery stores, gas stations, restaurants within 1 mile, crime, school ratings, etc). I might have paid $20 for a one off report with all this data. He could sell these reports directly to consumers (like carfax does for cars), or sell them to agents (like eBay has on car listings).