Heat Map Mania

By: Zillow Team, Zillow.com | July 21, 2006

We’ve created a page where you can view heat maps for 17 U.S. cities — including Phoenix, Boston, Portland, New York City and others.

What does oceanfront property in San Diego set you back compared to Miami Beach? What about a lakefront view in Chicago versus Cleveland? Heatmaps divide the Zestimates of homes by their square footage, showing which areas of a city are more or less expensive to live.

Meanwhile, we’ll keep Tommy and Stan busy writing some posts on heat map observations and Zindex trends in different regions — we like our data with a little spice!

Stumble it!
Categories: Real Estate Oddities, Zestimate, Zillow

Comments

4 Comments so far

BloodhoundBlog on July 21, 2006 3:49 pm

If its a heat map, why does it look so cool?

All right, heres the deal with Zillow.com:
I decide Im going to buy you a pair of designer jeans, nothing but the best for you. I know that fit is important, so I go to three of your best friends to get their sizes. Not yours, theirs. I s…
seattle on July 27, 2006 5:09 pm

fantabulous! what an awesome tool! fun, but what’s the real life application? What strikes me as a scenario: you are considering a move to a new city and want to check out livability factors e.g. cost of living in terms of similiar neighborhoods. Scenario: Jill lives in Seattle and has been toying with the idea of moving to Portland. She’s got friends there and loves Max (their mass transit system, least I think it’s called Max). Anyway, she’s got a cute house in an up and coming neighborhood in Seattle and wants to compare in similiar neighborhood in PDX. She isn’t down to actual street level, just neighborhoods and general areas in PDX. Well this tool would help her do exactly that; look at how much more or less PDX similiar areas are. Or am I way off here?
Nick Pang on August 1, 2006 5:21 pm

AWESOME!

is there a plan in the future where we can type in a zipcode or county/state and generate a heat map on the fly?

couple this with Zindex and other info and you can create a ‘relocation city index’ application that businesses or real estate professionals can use
DW on October 25, 2008 7:34 pm

Has this feature been discontinued? It was very helpful.