Obtaining Data When Places are not Covered in MSA/City Drop Down

Question:

Is there anyway to get data when the places are not covered in your MSA/city drop downs?

Answer:

HousingAlerts is a top-level market analysis tool — it answers the most important question of "when & where" you should invest.

Once you know the state of the market and its cycle, only then can you decide:

If you should even be in that market
What particular investing tactics, strategies and methods you should use (i.e. — wholesaling vs. buy & hold, vs. lease option, etc.)

In order for Technical Analysis to work, we use dead-accurate data for an entire market, typically a large city or metro. Very small towns and individual addresses do not represent a "market" on their own, and they lack a large enough number of transactions to create a statistically valid sample size.

However, once the overall market cycle has been determined, we have proprietary county- and ZIP-code-level tools to help you drill down deeper.

Although there are "micro-markets" that may buck the trend to some degree, it is the exception, not the rule.

Where you see this today

On the new platform you're no longer limited to a single MSA/city drop-down. The Precision Market Tracker lets you switch the whole system between geography levels and search directly:

Use the geography-level selector to move between State → Metro → County → ZIP, so if a small town isn't its own selectable market, you can analyze the county or ZIP code it sits inside. Coverage now spans 50+ states · 410 metros · 3,100+ counties · 27,000+ ZIP codes — 30,000+ total markets.

The Precision Market Tracker geography-level selector open, showing the State / Metro / County / ZIP levels you can switch the whole map between. — Switch the entire system between State, Metro, County, and ZIP levels — if a small town isn't its own market, analyze the county or ZIP code that contains it.

After you've read the overall cycle at the metro or county level, drop to the ZIP-level Micro Markets view to drill down inside that market. The Map shades every ZIP best-to-worst on the indicator you choose, so you can spot the stronger and weaker pockets within a larger market.

The Map at ZIP-code level filtered to a single state, each ZIP shaded on a best-to-worst heatmap to reveal micro-markets inside the larger market. — Once you know the overall cycle, drop to the ZIP-level Micro Markets view to drill down inside a market and find the stronger and weaker pockets.

You can also type any Metro, County, or ZIP straight into the search box on the Market Summary Report to pull that market's full scorecard.

If a specific place still isn't listed, it simply doesn't have enough transaction volume to be a statistically valid market on its own — analyze the county or metro that contains it instead. That larger market's cycle is what actually drives what happens on the ground in the smaller town.