Just an observation and request for the forum's comments:

I have noticed that the main realtors (prudentials, etc) in what I see as the city's primary "newspapers" that list real estate (the Philadelphia Weekly, City Paper, etc) compeltely ignore Manyaunk/EF/Wis in their listings. Specifically, while there are sections for virtually every other area of the city, notice that houses in our area at best are placed in the anonymous "around town" sections rather than being given its own section like "graduate hospital area" or "art musuem" etc. Most of the time, you would not even know the house is in our area unless familiar with the street names. The only publicity is from the venice island condos, which have their own ads. Take a look and try to find any mention of Manyunk or the like.

Maybe I am paranoid, but I see this a real problem in that someone looking at these ads would not even know we are part of the city. More practically, the problem I see is that our area--either by design or accident--is not (or no longer) being tauted by realtors as a hot spot or good place to invest in. I think this trend robs our area of an identity as a viable section of the city, especially to people coming from other parts of the country who know nothing of main street and what it has to offer.

Does anyone else notice this trend? I think there is a lot to be said as to how realtors can make or break an area through steering people to or away from it in their real estate ads. Look at Fishtown for instance. I am really curious why our area, and especially Manayunk it seems, is becoming the ignored stepchild behind the supposedly "hot" areas like Northern Libs, and even "Old Kensignton" which is a euphomism for the slum near Temple.

Now, I realize that the city itself will always take precedence over other areas in terms of realtor attention, but isn't our area still preferable to places like Northerm Libs, Kensington, and the like? I just can't figure out why the realtors seem to have shunned the area. Maybe I missed the part where Montgomery County annexed Manyunk, although I doubt it becuase the city still bends me over for 4% wage tax every year.

What's Manayunk? I've never heard of it.

Just kidding. What you're noticing is kind of strange. I consider Manayunk to be one of the more desirable places in the city to live, maybe it's getting less attention because it's no longer "up and coming" or "hot"---it's already there. Are there far fewer homes on the market in Manayunk thann other areas in Philly or something?

Be happy. Once big blue (Prudential) gets up here, look out. No more affordable homes!

do you really want to live near people who use the newspaper to look for houses?

I find the Review a good resource in looking for apartments.

What other ways aside from craigslist are there to find apartments?

yeah apartments are the wild west - no one can really reign in that market

i can think of nothing other than craigslist, word of mouth, phillyguru, and upenn ocl

for manrox I found that there is no good way to find an apt that doesn't involve using the review.

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What is phillyguru and penn ocl? More info please

When I was looking for apartments I used apartmentguide.com, RENTNET, apartments.com, rent.com and 4wallsinphilly (along with the already mentioned Craigslist). I'd never even heard of the Review since I wasn't from around here already.

phillyguru.com is really this guy Justin who brokers out apartments. It used to be only apartment buildings but they now handle rowhomes and the like.

penn ocl is the office of off-campus living