For real estate investors
Every neighborhood we track and the ZIP code it sits in, colored by the numbers themselves: Median Sale Price, Median Rent, Median Days on Market, or Median Rent vs Median Sale Price. Sale figures come from closed MLS sales, and rents are what landlords asked on rental listings, all over the last twelve months. Where an area has too few sales or listings to support a figure, it shows none rather than a guess.
Every criterion you set has to be met. This decides which areas show. The Show control still decides what they are coloured by.
These figures describe the measured market history of the housing stock: what has sold, for how much, how quickly, and what landlords are asking in rent. They are not a statement about the people who live in an area. Intrigue Real Estate & Property Management follows the Fair Housing Act and does not steer clients toward or away from any neighborhood.
Median sale price, price per square foot, days on market and closed-sale counts come from closed sales reported to the Broker Listing Cooperative® (BLC®) over the trailing twelve months, covering single-family homes, condominiums and townhouses. An area needs at least 15 closed sales to show a sale median; below that it shows no median rather than one built on a handful of transactions. Neighborhood figures count only closings inside that neighborhood's boundary, and ZIP figures count every qualifying closing in the ZIP. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
Rent figures are not BLC® data. They are median asking rents from rental listings compiled by RentCast, covering single-family homes, condominiums and townhouses listed for rent over the trailing twelve months. An asking rent is what a landlord advertised, not the rent a lease was signed at, and asking rents usually run higher. Each property counts once, however many of its units were listed, and an area needs at least 10 properties to show a median asking rent. Neighborhood and ZIP figures count the properties inside each boundary. Rent figures are not guaranteed, and nothing on this map is an appraisal or investment advice.
Median Rent vs Median Sale Price divides an area's median asking rent by its median closed sale price, so it combines the two sources above. Because the rent half is an asking rent, the ratio reads higher than one built on signed leases would. Boundaries are approximate: ZIPs follow Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, and neighborhoods are drawn to follow major roads, rivers and rail lines where they can.
The two year-over-year figures compare the trailing twelve months of closed BLC® sales against the twelve months before them, measured in one pass so both years are counted the same way. An area needs at least 15 closed sales in each of the two years to show a change; if either year falls short it shows none, so no figure here rests on a handful of transactions in one of its halves. The sale price change is a percentage. The days on market change is a number of days rather than a percentage, because these medians are small enough that a percentage overstates ordinary movement. A change describes what has already happened and is not a forecast.
The numbers tell you the shape of a deal. Which street, which vintage, and what it will actually rent for is a conversation. That one is free.