The 15 Fastest-Growing Metropolitan and Micropolitan Areas (10/21 to 10/22)

Posted by Tom Kessler on Feb 21, 2023 7:00:00 AM

People in the U.S. are on the move always! With our recent annual/semi-annual population data update last month, we give you our latest study of population change in metro and micro areas between October 2021 and October 2022.

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Topics: Market Data, Data Study, Population Study, Communities Industry, Data Quality

2022 Retail Category Winners and Losers (Jan-Nov)

Posted by Lance Blick on Dec 9, 2022 11:00:00 AM

As 2022 comes to a close and SiteSeer clients are looking toward and planning for 2023, we wanted to revisit a topic we’ve discussed on the blog in years past: which retail categories grew and shrunk (physical stores/locations) during the year (to date). To refresh your memory, we first analyzed data on store openings and closures for 2020, and then again for 2021 (or more accurately, January-October 2021).

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Topics: Smart Retail Growth, Data Study, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Criteria, Site Selection Checklist

The 15 Fastest-Growing Metropolitan and Micropolitan Areas (4/21 to 4/22)

Posted by Tom Kessler on Sep 7, 2022 6:30:00 AM
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Topics: Data Study, Population Study, Communities Industry

Is the Housing Market Cooling Off Finally?

Posted by Tom Kessler on May 20, 2022 6:30:00 AM

If there’s one thing nobody can stop talking about lately, it is the housing market.

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Topics: Market Data, Data Study, Retail Site Selection, Housing Market

The 15 Fastest-Growing Metropolitan and Micropolitan Areas (10/20 to 10/21)

Posted by Tom Kessler on Jan 28, 2022 5:00:00 AM

In our last iteration of this population study, we compared two critical periods: April 2020 (the onset of COVID-19) to April 2021 (when vaccines started rolling out in the United States). The update before that, we compared October 2019 to October 2020.

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Topics: Data Study, Population Study, Communities Industry

What You Need to Know About Site Selection Research

Posted by Tom Kessler on Dec 22, 2021 6:00:00 AM

SiteSeer is in the business of site selection software, but we do a lot more than that. We help growing businesses with their market strategy, including which markets to expand into, where to find the best sites and how to forecast store performance.

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Topics: Market Research, Data Study, Retail Site Selection, Data Quality

2021 Retail Category Winners and Losers (Jan-Oct 2021)

Posted by Tom Kessler on Oct 18, 2021 6:30:00 AM

Back in February 2021, we wanted to take a look at the year 2020 and figure out what retail categories did well (grew) and which ones struggled (shrunk). The year started off as many years do and then when the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a global pandemic on March 11th, life as we all know it changed forever.

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Topics: Smart Retail Growth, Data Study, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Software

Data Partner Spotlight: Report All

Posted by Lance Blick on Aug 9, 2021 8:51:23 AM

Whether you’re a commercial real estate developer or a retailer trying to figure out where to locate, researching real estate for many begins on a county assessor’s website. But our data partner, ReportAll, makes that process much easier by compiling parcel data from all across the country. SiteSeer obtains ReportAll’s parcel data layer API in our application. So if you want to know who owns a piece of property, how it is shaped, who owns it and more, that information is easily accessible within SiteSeer Pro.

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Topics: Data Study, Improving Store Locations, Building New Locations, Data Partner, Data Quality, Site Selection Analysis, Traffic Counts

Data Partner Spotlight: INRIX

Posted by Lance Blick on Jul 8, 2021 6:15:00 AM

When you’re in the retail business, location planning is a complicated process. There are many factors to consider when trying to ensure a location can be successful, but at the top of the list is making sure there’s plenty of traffic passing by that site (in other words: potential customers).

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Topics: Data Study, Improving Store Locations, Building New Locations, Data Partner, Data Quality, Site Selection Analysis, Traffic Counts

Data Partner Spotlight: ChainXY

Posted by Lance Blick on May 27, 2021 12:00:00 PM

When you’re a retailer, restaurant chain or real estate professional, it’s critical to do your homework. Our data partner, ChainXY, makes that much easier, with their chain locational data that allows real estate professionals that are conducting market research to make informed decisions.

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Topics: Data Study, Improving Store Locations, Building New Locations, Data Partner, Data Quality, Site Selection Analysis

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