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Suggestions for Canadian (Metro Vancouver) Housing Open Data Sources
Metro Vancouver has an open data catalogue
http://www.metrovancouver.org/data
These geo datasets are available:
Frequent Transit Development Areas
Land Use
Metro 2040 Land Designation
Metro 2040 ...
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US House Sale Data
Historical graph of US new housing starts. It measures the building of new houses. Which isn't as telling as it used to be because in some cases, in some areas, it's cheaper to build a brand new house ...
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why do legal descriptions of property differ from DB to DB?
I work for an appraisal district and can say that the discrepancy between your deed record and the appraisal record comes from how the appraisal database is maintained. All real property accounts have ...
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Collecting Real Estate Data in the US
You are looking for the property appraiser's office for each county to assemble the data for free. Anything above this level is going to be a cost item.
For example, the Polk County Property ...
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Data sets for predicting home value
You're probably going to need to get information from many jurisdictions - at least in the US, there is not a good/granular sources for property tax, crime, and other information for all states in one ...
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Which database should I search to find the year that homes were built?
Census data isn't going to provide information on individual buildings, but will provide summary data for the buildings within small geographic areas. For example, in the 5 year American Community ...
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Where can I find a cost of living index by zip code?
Living Wage Calculator by MIT provides cost of living data down to locality, which you could mesh into zip codes, but since zip codes are not unique to a locality, you'd have to give or take ...
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Property ownership data
The link below lists all SF municipal websites that provide public datasets related to property. I do not know if any of these datasets have ownership records.
http://propertymap.sfplanning.org/...
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San Francisco Housing Data
Zillow is an online real estate database company and offers research data which is aggregated, and you may find meets some of your needs.
http://www.zillow.com/research/data
All data accessed and ...
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US Population/Housing Data?
The Census API is pretty good and should have what you're looking for. If you want only recent data, you can use the ACS to get 2014 data. If you want more historical data, the 1990, 2000, and 2010 ...
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US Population/Housing Data?
If you are interested in using shapefile data and have access to QGIS or ArcGIS, this geodatabase contains geographic, demographic, and economic data for Places or "Cities" from the 2010 to 2014 ACS (...
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Where can I find a cost of living index by zip code?
This might be helpful for other people if not for OP.
The problem here is that US Census data is based on census tracts, not zip codes. So for the US here is HUD "crosswalk" data from www.Huduser....
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North American housing and real-estate appraisal data
Affordable housing is difficult to track as there are intricacies to the process: Is it Housing Choice Voucher Program (Previously Section 8), is it a an established property that specifically handles ...
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Collecting Real Estate Data in the US
Daniel Miller's answer recommending property appraiser's offices is great, and if your need is confined to a couple of counties, it's not too much work to locate each dataset. However, if you need ...
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List of houses parcel number US
Assessors Parcel numbers in the US are assigned within specific jurisdictions (usually counties, which are smaller than states and often larger than cities or towns). Within a single jurisdiction they ...
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Property ownership data
Doubt you'll find it all in one place, without visiting a city office, but here's some help:
City Lots shapefiles
https://data.sfgov.org/Geographic-Locations-and-Boundaries/City-Lots-Zipped-Shapefile-...
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price of commercial real estate (office space) per zip code
I'm the head researcher for a commerical real estate brokerage firm. I don't know of a perfect source for what you are looking for, but here are some proxys you might try
Paid option: Costar
http://...
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Suggestions for Canadian (Metro Vancouver) Housing Open Data Sources
Search Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation for Vancouver
CMHC Housing Market Information Portal
Search Open Canada for "Housing"
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US House Sale Data
Quandl has some free real estate data:
The Zillow database shows home prices and rents by size, type and tier, housing supply, demand and sales etc: https://www.quandl.com/data/ZILL
The National ...
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US House Sale Data
The property appraisers from each county are able to provide this data.
Additionally, this previous answer had some information: Looking for home sale data
Taken from this post (How to construct a ...
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Bids on apartments
For final house prices in the UK, the HMLR (Her Majesties Land Registry) office deals with land ownership, usage and boundary issues along with other miscellaneous land related issues.
For the data, ...
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US House Sale Data
It's not exactly "open" data, but the largest nationwide database about houses is maintained by Zillow.
Their proprietary estimates of home prices are called "Zestimates."
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How to estimate subjective value?
This data-request is very interesting but not trivial at all. (Hence, the somewhat late answer.)
What you refer to as subjective price, economists would often call reservation price. The reservation ...
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Year Structure Built of housing units
The American Community Survey has table B25034, which has columns for each decade from the 1940's to current (and another for "1939 or earlier"). Each column estimates the number of housing units in ...
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Collecting data on private rooftop characteristics?
In Australia, a federal government agency (PSMA) has created a for-cost dataset called Geoscape that calculates information on private rooftops: specifically roof heights and materials.
I wanted to ...
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San Francisco Housing Data
Some kind soul scraped the newspaper listings and put the results on github here.
However, several of the things you ask are much more involved, require analysis and subjective judgment to furninsh, ...
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Where can I find public access data on mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures?
It seems that there is no federal level aggregation of foreclosures that is at the zip code or state level. But if you narrow your query, you can find municipality or regional datasets.
Here are ...
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Real-estate property data for USA
The U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey has information on rental and purchase prices but it's aggregated at various levels.
You can get detailed parcel level information about prices ...
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Are there any US Census columns that can give me information about rents with respect to the size of housing units? (bedroom, sf, etc)
You want table B25068 'Bedrooms by gross rent' from the American Community Survey 5 year estimates for the most recent years (as of April 2017, that would be 2011-2015).
The ACS data has some ...
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Data sets for predicting home value
Zillow has a free API that will return their estimate of average home prices. You can get the data down to zipcode and neighborhood level.
http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/APIOverview.htm
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