Most Popular Neighborhoods Heading Into Home Shopping Season
The country’s most popular neighborhoods have a lot in common with its most popular celebrities: They tend to be in California.
Written by Skylar Olsen on May 3, 2018
- Thirteen of the 20 most popular neighborhoods in the country are in California.
- Only three of the most viewed neighborhoods topped 10,000 views per listing in the first three months of 2018: The Oaks of Calabasas in Los Angeles, Tuxedo Park in Atlanta, and Presidio Heights in San Francisco.
- Three of the 20 most sought-after neighborhoods are in Atlanta, where the median list price city-wide is $320,450 – but the median list price for the popular neighborhoods tops $1 million.
The country’s most popular neighborhoods have a lot in common with its most popular celebrities: They tend to be in California.
The top 20 list leads with The Oaks of Calabasas, a doubled-gated Los Angeles suburb that’s a favorite spot of the Kardashians. Four additional Los Angeles-area communities rank in the top 20, which is based on Zillow page views per listing from January 1 through March 31.
They include Bel Air, Beverly Glen and the Hollywood Hills, all celebrity hot spots that have been home to everyone from Real Housewives to Jennifer Aniston and Leonardo di Caprio. Rounding out the area’s popular neighborhoods is the exclusive mountains-to-beach enclave of Point Dume in Malibu.
The San Francisco area has even more sought-after neighborhoods, including Presidio Heights, Cow Hollow and Miraloma Park in the city itself; Paradise Park and Montclair in nearby Oakland; and Tamalpais Valley across the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County.
Three of the country’s top 20 are in the Atlanta area: Tuxedo Park, Kingswood and Brandon. Two are in the Seattle area: Laurelhurst and Meydenbauer. And there’s one popular neighborhood apiece in the metros of San Jose, Calif. (Old Palo Alto), San Diego (South Beach), Washington, D.C. (Woodland-Normanstone Terrace) and New York (the Crestwood neighborhood in Yonkers).
Only three of the most popular neighborhoods topped 10,000 views per listing: The Oaks of Calabasas (12,976), Tuxedo Park (10,759) and Presidio Heights Francisco (10,658) – compared to 365 pageviews for the typical U.S. home so far this year.
The median list price in most of the neighborhoods is far above the median list price for the cities they’re in. The Oaks of Calabasas, for example, had a median list price of $3.7 million, more than twice the $1.4 million median list price for Calabasas as a whole.
The difference was particularly pronounced for the popular Atlanta neighborhoods, which each carried median list prices of more than $1 million, while the median list price in the city of Atlanta in general was $320,450.
| Rank | Neighborhood | City | Page Views Per Listing | Median List Price | Median Square Footage | Median List Price Citywide |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Oaks | Calabasas, CA | 12,976 | $3,699,000 | 5,603 | $1,410,000 |
| 2 | Tuxedo Park | Atlanta, GA | 10,759 | $1,875,000 | 5,476 | $320,450 |
| 3 | Presidio Heights | San Francisco, CA | 10,658 | $2,895,000 | 3,041 | $1,295,000 |
| 4 | Bel Air | Los Angeles, CA | 8,697 | $5,385,000 | 3,998 | $799,777 |
| 5 | Paradise Park | Oakland, CA | 8,697 | $727,000 | 1,058 | $675,000 |
| 6 | Cow Hollow | San Francisco, CA | 7,990 | $2,379,900 | 1,693 | $1,295,000 |
| 7 | Point Dume | Malibu, CA | 7,730 | $5,995,000 | 3,488 | $4,500,000 |
| 8 | Beverly Glen | Los Angeles, CA | 7,336 | $3,222,500 | 3,088 | $799,777 |
| 9 | Montclair | Oakland, CA | 7,022 | $1,012,500 | 2,046 | $675,000 |
| 10 | Laurelhurst | Seattle, WA | 7,002 | $2,150,000 | 3,400 | $749,950 |
| 11 | Kingswood | Atlanta, GA | 6,754 | $2,422,000 | 4,886 | $320,450 |
| 12 | Old Palo Alto | Palo Alto, CA | 6,599 | $4,995,000 | 2,516 | $2,896,500 |
| 13 | South Beach | Carlsbad, CA | 6,286 | $1,449,000 | 2,077 | $889,000 |
| 14 | Woodland-Normanstone Terrace | Washington, DC | 6,114 | $3,500,000 | 4,716 | $548,774 |
| 15 | Brandon | Atlanta, GA | 6,041 | $1,545,000 | 4,206 | $320,450 |
| 16 | Miraloma Park | San Francisco, CA | 5,974 | $1,199,000 | 1,641 | $1,295,000 |
| 17 | Crestwood | Yonkers, NY | 5,822 | $559,735 | 1,812 | $419,000 |
| 18 | Meydenbauer | Bellevue, WA | 5,753 | $2,847,444 | 2,440 | $950,000 |
| 19 | Tamalpais Valley | Mill Valley, CA | 5,745 | $1,450,000 | 1,892 | $1,590,000 |
| 20 | Hollywood Hills | Los Angeles, CA | 5,642 | $2,449,000 | 2,605 | $799,777 |
Methodology
At the end of each day, Zillow takes a snapshot of all the active home listings on the site and records how many times each home was viewed. We mined that database to yield the neighborhoods with the highest number of page views per listing from January 1 to March 31, 2018. We counted only neighborhoods with at least 10 for-sale homes during that time. Because listings often go through price changes, and to avoid counting the same property twice, we took the median of listings’ most recent list price within individual neighborhoods.
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