Dabbling in Real Estate APIs
In what should surely spur another burst of creativity from the real estate developer set, the New York Times announced this week a brand new Real Estate API.
The Times API contains real estate data from the NYC Department of Finance dating back to 2003 and all the classifieds data from the Grey Lady dating back to 2007.
What exactly does it offer?
The API offers aggregate data divided into two sets: listings and actual sale prices. You can get the number (”counts”) of listings and sales per ZIP code, neighborhood and borough, for various building types and date ranges. You can also get percentile prices for listings and sales per ZIP code, neighborhood and borough, again for various building types and time periods.
You could mash that up with a simple Google Map to get an elegant heat map of how prices in Manhattan have changed over time or go a step further and layer in the data from the Trulia API or the Zillow API too.
This may even be a cool project to tackle at Connect Create this summer in San Francisco. What is Connect Create?
From the Inman News web site:
72 hours. A room of developers. One killer app. Watch innovation come to life during Connect as technologists compete to create something amazing for you to take home.
Winner gets to strut their stuff on stage the final day of the conference. Pretty cool opportunity!
Any other APIs out there folks can talk advantage of? Leave ‘em in the comments and I’ll update this post.
Marilyn Wilson | Apr 10, 2009 | Reply
I love the idea you outlined here Joel. I wonder if you could do the same thing using VOW data from your local MLS?
marc | Apr 10, 2009 | Reply
Real estate agent profiles, sales, and reviews:
http://www.agentrank.com/api
Drew Meyers | Apr 10, 2009 | Reply
Education.com, Yelp, and Walk Score all offer great APIs relevant to a real estate audience. Here’s a post I wrote about some of the free data sources out there.
TS Broker | Apr 14, 2009 | Reply
Look forward to seeing what the Inman developers come up with. http://www.suburbified.com has used the NYTimes archive api to create an interesting mashup of Living In real estate articles in the NY/CT/NJ area for the last ten years.
Reggie from Cyberhomes | Apr 27, 2009 | Reply
If we’re talking about real estate API’s, Cyberhomes should be at the top of the list. Our API is extremely powerful and flexible. The API allows developers to display properties and related comparables, neighborhoods details, even charts data and related chart images. For an awesome implementation of the API, check out AOL’s real estate section. (http://realestate.aol.com)
marc | May 21, 2009 | Reply
Enables real estate sites to quickly add a white-label Q&A community feature:
http://www.realtybaron.com/api
Scott Nachatilo | Nov 30, 2009 | Reply
Can we exactly what places offering the lowest price per unit?