Heat Maps now available nationwide!
When we launched our Heat Maps for major cities back in September, we were excited to be able to help people visualize real estate and popularity trends at the local level (major cities and neighborhoods).
Today, in addition to launching our first Trulia Trends report, we’ve also taken Heat Maps one step further–to full national coverage. That’s right baby, our Heat Maps now cover nearly 3,000 counties across the U S of A.
Other than the obvious coolness of a fully interactive, real-time national Heat Map showing average listing prices, median sales prices and popularity across the country, we sometimes get asked how people can use the Heat Maps in their home search.
Well, here are some examples:
1) Your job is relocating you from Florida to LA. LA is a big place, where should you live?
- Go to the National Heat Map — California looks expensive (it’s red), but you already knew that.
- Click on CA on the map, and navigate to the CA Heat Map link to see the state Heat Map county-by-county.
- You are pretty sure that you don’t hate yourself enought to want to commute 2 hours each way to work, so you start your search on the Los Angeles County Heat Map to check out real estate trends ZIP code by ZIP code.
- The area around Manhattan Beach looks cool — it’s around the right price range and close to the beach. As a Floridian, you wouldn’t have it any other way.
- Click on your ZIP codes of choice (90266 and 90245 to start) to search homes for sale in each ZIP.
2) You live in Montana, it’s the middle of winter and you hate your job. You wonder what it would be like to pack up and move to a warmer locale. Daydreams turn to action and you’re navigating Kauai homes for sale. You quit your job, move to Kauai and live a better, tanner life.
3) You are a reporter, student, or real estate enthusiast in New Jersey (insert any state here), and you want to see median sales prices county by county for your newspaper, report, or for personal enjoyment!
Those are just a few ideas, but I’m sure there are other use-cases for Heat Maps as well (feel free to share if you have ideas of your own). Enjoy!
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teresa boardman said,
January 9, 2007 @ 4:59 pm
2 thumbs up on the heat maps. You guys rock!
More Coolia from Trulia - Nationwide Heat Maps at The Phoenix Real Estate Guy said,
January 9, 2007 @ 10:23 pm
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Thomas said,
November 19, 2007 @ 10:51 pm
Sounds very interesting, but I can never access the heat map page. Maybe it is too popular and your server can not handle the load?
Jeff from Trulia said,
November 20, 2007 @ 12:16 pm
Hi Thomas, I’m not aware of any issues with the heatmaps - can you respond with the exact URL you are trying to see or send a note to customerservice@trulia.com ?
Minnesota & Wisconsin Lake Property said,
January 17, 2008 @ 6:16 am
I really love the heat maps on your site. Using visuals to convey sometimes overwhelming data makes for a great user experience.