MediaShift Innovation Spotlight

Neighborhood Watch Puts Florida Home Sales on the Map

by Megan Taylor

St. Petersburg Times' Neighborhood Watch is a database application that tracks weekly house sales in Pinellas and Pasco counties, Florida. Readers can search for home sales by county, ZIP code or neighborhood. Median price and sale count trends are tracked and graphed at one year, six month, three month, and one month intervals. On a neighborhood level, the site plots geographical data on Google Maps and suggests listings to prospective buyers by ZIP code.

• December 3, 2008
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Digging Deeper

Newspaper, Bubble Blogs Feed the Real Estate Obsession

by Mark Glaser

Have you ever gone to an open house even though you weren't interested in buying the property? Have you ever pored over housing price data on Zillow or read through housing ads on Craigslist just for fun? You are not alone. There seems to be a growing obsession with real estate in the U.S., as home prices have soared in the past few years, only to come back to earth a bit in the past year.

• November 29, 2006
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