Tag: housing
Map of the Best Bargains in Sunshine
In recent blog posts I generated a list of the Top 25 Sunniest US Cities Ranked by Housing Cost and I explained my methodology in another post. I was waiting on some new features in the MarketSeer web mapping system that we’ve been developing at TerraSeer but now I’m able to prepare a static map to [...]
Map of Housing Price Index Change Illustrates Four Clusters of Misery
A couple days ago I posted a list of metropolitan areas and their associated 5-year change in housing prices. I find it interesting to see the data at a more granular level because when you aggregate by state a lot of information gets hidden away. Today I made a map of the same data. I [...]
Housing Price Index changes by MSA
I get a little annoyed when I see articles ranking which states have the worst foreclosure problem or the biggest drop in housing prices over time. Why would anyone want to look at this at the state level? Maybe state governors and political talking heads? Not really my kind of audience. The economic drivers that [...]
Top 25 Sunniest US Cities Ranked by Housing Cost
I recently put together a way to calculate the price of a day of annual sunshine. I thought some people might be interested in finding just the sunniest places in America ranked by the cost of owning a home in those locations. Abilene is #1 and Texas dominates with 5 of the top 7 locations. [...]
The Price of a Sunny Day: Top 5 Bargain Cities for Sunshine
I recently learned that my hometown, Pueblo, Colorado, receives more sunshine than San Diego, California. I was really surprised and began to wonder who pays the most and who pays the least for sunshine in America? So I decided to take a look and see what I could find out. This simple analysis assumes that [...]
