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Price to rent ratio for every zip code in the US
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2012 Feb 1, 5:02am 31,668 views 60 comments
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Patrick
2012 Feb 15, 9:14am
Another complicating factor is that I don't actually have sales prices, just asking prices. Wish I did.
Asking rents are less of a problem, because the landlord usually gets exactly what he's asking.
Shoot me an email if you want to see what we can glean from the data. I know that this is sort of Patrick-proprietary stuff since you make a living off the site, so maybe we could make something interesting to share with readers without giving everyone all of your data.
OK, I'll mail you.
Bap33
2012 Feb 15, 10:18am
In my area I would LOVE to have the number of homes, apparts, commer, and land held by the same persons and groups. And how many of the individuals that hold rentals are also members of groups that hold rentals ..... and their financial history (forclosure, BR, ShortSales, ect) .... just a dream, I know.
Personally I think that this sort of information would be very useful. The other graph that I think would be great is rent vs the tenant is likely/not likely to destroy your investment property/not pay the rent graph.
Or
Price vs rental rate as it's no point buying a investment if you can't rent it out.
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Just for kicks, I plotted the average price vs average rent for every zip code in the US from my mostly-Craigslist data set of 4.5 million points.
Pretty cool, but I'm not sure what it means except that there is basically a linear relationship.
Please copy this graph and use it where ever you want, as long as you keep the http://patrick.net URL in the image.
Here's the gnuplot commands I used:
Anyone know how to make the text of the url label lighter, or how to put commas and $ marks on the rents and prices?