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Columbus, OH-- Public Priority Systems, Inc. (PPSI), the Columbus, Ohio-based developers of SchoolMatch ®, today announced the launching of a valuable tool for residential real estate investors. HouseAppreciation.com is the first readily available source to measure and forecast residential real estate appreciation at the community level.

In 1986, SchoolMatch became the first national firm to benchmark schools.

“Few investors are experts at selecting communities which will realize substantial increases in house appreciation values. People interested in investing in residential real estate are looking for communities where their investment will reap rewards. That’s the purpose of our new index,” said William L. Bainbridge, Ph.D., President & CEO of PPSI. “We use a sophisticated system to advise investors on where to place their real estate investment dollars for maximum return. We have learned that many people have turned to real estate investments in recent years and need accurate data when making critical buying decisions.”

Recently Realtor® Magazine Online reported, “data available through SchoolMatch® places this site a grade above the rest.” The national news media has featured stories on the strong relationship between accurate information on quality schools, warehoused in the SchoolMatch databases, and potential real estate appreciation.

“Our new site has been designed to assist investors by better predicting the impact of their real estate investment dollars by looking at communities as small as high school attendance areas,” said Steven M. Sundre, Ph.D., PPSI Executive Vice President. “Existing sites that focus on appreciation in metropolitan areas simply do not drill down far enough to be of value because investors buy houses in particular communities, not in wide geographic expanses.”

The website rates the top 32% of communities in the country by high school attendance areas. The communities listed on HouseAppreciation.com are considered by the PPSI panel of experts to be the most likely in the United States to realize large increases in residential real estate annual appreciation. Ratings range from “AAAA” to “A”. At the upper end, communities rated “AAAA” realized, on average, a 107.8% appreciation in the last 10 years. Those rated “A” realized a 60.5% average appreciation value.

While PPSI is quick to point out they offer no guarantees, CIO Kathy B. Bleimes, indicates that “history should be a good guide to the future. We provide investors with a great source of information about residential property investments not previously available to the general public. For a charter membership of only $14.95 annually, subscribers will have access to localized information in any region throughout the country.”

It is, obviously, up to individual investors to understand and determine on their own what they need to do to make intelligent decisions in connection with purchasing residential real estate, and to seek out the advice of competent individuals before making any investment decisions. Certain statements in houseappreciation.com documentation may constitute forward-looking statements. These statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to be materially different.