Data Junkies, Get Your Mice Ready!
By: Kristin Acker, VP, Product Teams | July 27, 2009
We just rolled out a total overhaul to our Real Estate Market Reports and Home Value pages. We now have coverage at the national, state, metro, county, city, neighborhood and ZIP code levels, complete with interactive graphics and the ability to look up home stats by number of bedrooms.
So far, we’ve published 17 different real estate market statistics including the Zillow Home Value Index, listing/sold stats, foreclosure percentages and more. In the next few weeks, we’ll release statistics on down payment and listing price cuts. There are even a few more stats in the hopper coming in the next month or so, so keep checking back.
One of my favorite features: comparison charts. It’s now easy to compare different regions. Just check the regions you want to compare and we’ll show you the difference. At the neighborhood level, this is great for home buyers. At the higher levels, it’s just plain fun to play with. Here’s an example: median sale prices in four California cities:
We’ve been publishing some of this data at the national and metro level in our quarterly market reports. Now we’ll be updating these numbers twice a month. This will let you get the latest more often. You can even download the data into Excel for more data exploration.
Have fun!
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DebtFree on July 27, 2009 1:05 pm
Very nice, but it has a huge bug.
At the navigation at the top of the page, clicked a state, then noticed only a partial list of cities available, scrolled to end of the city list to enter a zip code:
Don’t see it?
Find:
Entered the zip code then clicked orange arrow submit button. Nothing happens. Same in both Internet Explorer 8 and FireFox 3.
In web design, and most other things, oftentimes less is more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
First make it work, then make it fancy.
Kristin Acker on July 28, 2009 12:20 pm
Hi DebtFree,
Thanks for the input. You’re correct that we should give you more feedback when you type a ZIP in the city field.
The easiest way to find the data by ZIP is to just type it in the big search box at the top of the page, below the tabs. Hope that helps.
Kristin
DebtFree on July 29, 2009 10:34 am
Hi Kristin, when I type a zip code into the “big search box at the top of the page” Zillow returns home price data only for that zip code, so comparing that zip code to other zip codes (or comparing at the state level) is not possible.
Having that search-by-zip-code in the city list dropdown actually work would be ideal. It’s probably a minor fix, but the net result is a large bug for those interested in a city other than the default cities listed in the dropdown.
Kristin Acker on July 29, 2009 12:38 pm
Hi DebtFree,
Thanks again for the feedback. Minor and major efforts often vary in the eye of the beholder
Here’s an example in a city where it works fine: http://www.zillow.com/local-info/WA-98125-home-value/r_99583/ But it depends on where the ZIPs are whether comparing them is possible. Sometimes you have to go to the metro level to compare ZIPs because they’re not in the same city.
Try searching for your metro (e.g. “Seattle Metro” and then select “ZIP Codes” under Compare in the left-hand column.
If that doesn’t work, you can download the chart data for each ZIP into Excel (left column: click “download chart data”) and combine them yourself.
Hope that helps.
Kristin