> Because a 400sf apartment in NY is not 1/2 of the cost of a 800sf apartment in NY.
OP here. This is true, but given its flaws this measure is still the industry standard for benchmarking various markets in rental housing. We actually seek to rectify this problem by creating market rent estimates based on a rental's detailed attributes in our product.
This is true, but what's strange is the curve bends back. There are so few 3 or 4BR apartments, that the per sq foot goes higher with bigger apartments. (Before leaving, we were paying ~6 per sf for a 2BR in the UWS zoned for a crappy school)
Joplin itself isn't that big (~55K residents, although population doubles during the day), but the 3 county metro area is estimated at 207,488 for 2013, more than half of that in Jasper Country, which most of Joplin is in.
And commuting isn't exactly a tough proposition in this area.
I guess you're not going 270 north in the morning and south in the evening. I hear 40 and 70 coming out of and going into St. Charles is no picnic either. 44 always seems to flow though.
44 and 55 all day, baby. 40 is only rough around Forest Park and 270 during rush hour. And when I say rough, I mean 5-10 minute delay. Which isn't much compared to other cities.
I went to college in Chicago. There's a magnitude order of difference between traffic here and traffic there.
St. Louis businesses are pretty distributed between the city and county so there isn't a huge downtown rush in the mornings and evenings. The most traffic you'll see downtown is when the Cards are playing.
but switching the city in the list doesn't work for me, I can't see the median income or median income / median apartment rent either
(I tried on Firefox and Chrome on Fedora)
To go to interesting cities I had to enter them manually in the URL
and it says "Uh-oh! Looks like we don't have enough data for this MSA yet. Please try another selection." , fine, but the problem is the list of cities has now disappeared.
As ars commented, in the future if you could have something that finds out in which area you are currently looking, and loads automatically the data for the area, that would be even better!
In the SF map, what's in the Contra Costa county subdivision over on the right side that makes rent there more than double it's surrounds? Rent there is comparable to the heart of SF.
It's not on the list. The least expensive metros range from $0.50/sqft to $0.65/sqft and Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI is $0.94/sqft. That metro area is larger than just the city of Detroit itself though, which is probably what you're curious about?
It would be great to see comparable sale prices to calculate price to rent ratios. Looking at those rents, and considering the drop in prices since 2008, it looks like a great time to be a landlord. (At least from my perspective in Canada.)
I actually had posted it with (For Rental Housing) tacked on the end of the title for clarity, but the mods saw fit to remove that part. Omitting the "in the US" part from that was myopia on my part though--we only aggregate data in the US for now.
Roswell, NM >> "Uh-oh! Looks like we don't have enough data for this MSA yet. Please try another selection" (no surprise). >> Click Back >> Cool! they must have an API so I can build my own app... (page displays only JSON data from original CA map).
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[ 395 ms ] story [ 2227 ms ] threadEX: from the same complex. http://www.equityapartments.com/new-york/new-york-city-apart...
OP here. This is true, but given its flaws this measure is still the industry standard for benchmarking various markets in rental housing. We actually seek to rectify this problem by creating market rent estimates based on a rental's detailed attributes in our product.
;)
It's a official Census Metropolitan Statistical Area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joplin,_Missouri_metropolitan_...
Joplin itself isn't that big (~55K residents, although population doubles during the day), but the 3 county metro area is estimated at 207,488 for 2013, more than half of that in Jasper Country, which most of Joplin is in.
And commuting isn't exactly a tough proposition in this area.
I can see that having a certain appeal.
One of the things I love about St. Louis is the relatively low amount of traffic relative to the metro's size.
I went to college in Chicago. There's a magnitude order of difference between traffic here and traffic there.
St. Louis businesses are pretty distributed between the city and county so there isn't a huge downtown rush in the mornings and evenings. The most traffic you'll see downtown is when the Cards are playing.
https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract/San%20Francisco-Oa...
https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract/San%20Francisco-Oa...
but switching the city in the list doesn't work for me, I can't see the median income or median income / median apartment rent either (I tried on Firefox and Chrome on Fedora)
To go to interesting cities I had to enter them manually in the URL
Edit: This should be fixed now. Anyone, please let me know if you're still having issues.
However I tried a random city : Helena-West Helena, AR https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract/Helena-West%20Hele...
and it says "Uh-oh! Looks like we don't have enough data for this MSA yet. Please try another selection." , fine, but the problem is the list of cities has now disappeared.
As ars commented, in the future if you could have something that finds out in which area you are currently looking, and loads automatically the data for the area, that would be even better!
2014's Most and Least Expensive US Metros.
I was actually looking forward to a comparison of actual metro fares.
Very interesting heat maps.
https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract/San%20Francisco-Oa...
Roswell, NM >> "Uh-oh! Looks like we don't have enough data for this MSA yet. Please try another selection" (no surprise). >> Click Back >> Cool! they must have an API so I can build my own app... (page displays only JSON data from original CA map).
Firefox 34.05, Slackware.