We've been talking for a while about how the market strength in the Bay Area's housing market has been focused on the economic centers, San Francisco and down the Peninsula, with the market notably cooling the farther you reach into the exurbs.
Thanks to the folks at FortiusOne, who launched GeoCommons at O'Reilly's Where2.0 conference last week, we finally got around to illustrating the heat map of this phenomenon.
In the following snapshot we've created a heatmap of price reductions. Specifically this is our percent-price-reduction stat--for a given zip code, the percent of properties that have had their asking prices reduced. We have some color tweaking to do still, but you can see the picture pretty clearly. The brighter red, the higher the percentage (and the weaker the market).
If we zoom into the San Francisco, San Mateo County Peninsula and the north end of Santa Clara County, you can see the strength in Mountain View, up through Palo Alto, and in the San Mateo/Burlingame areas. Also, demand levels in the City have stayed strong.
You can get details of the markets in Burlingame, San Mateo, Palo Alto, Mountain View etc. on our free research page. From that page, you can go to our map view and look at price trends for each zip code. (Heatmap not yet included.)
So many things happening 'round Altos Research World HQ, that the blog has been getting short shrift lately. Here's a roundup:Since the silly legal hubub with the Redfin blog, the company has been focusing on helping readers understand market conditions
Tracked: Jun 19, 08:36