Our Mission
LocalHomePrices™ was founded with a simple belief: everyone deserves access to reliable, transparent home price data. Since registering our domain in 2000, we've grown from a simple price aggregator into the most comprehensive local home price reference in the United States.
We serve first-time buyers researching affordability, sellers timing their market entry, investors evaluating opportunities, journalists seeking authoritative data, policymakers studying affordability trends, and researchers analyzing market dynamics.
What Sets Us Apart
Unlike national portals that provide estimates for individual properties, LocalHomePrices™ focuses exclusively on market-level price intelligence. We answer the fundamental question: "What do homes cost in this city?" — and we answer it with rigor, transparency, and depth that no single-property estimator can match.
- Market-level focus — We analyze entire markets, not individual properties. This eliminates the noise of single-property estimates and reveals the true picture of what buyers actually pay.
- 26 years of domain authority — LocalHomePrices.com has been continuously registered since 2000, making it one of the oldest home price data domains on the internet.
- Multi-source methodology — We don't rely on a single data feed. Our price estimates are triangulated from multiple independent sources.
- Monthly editorial signals — Every city page includes our proprietary Buy/Neutral/Wait signal, backed by quantitative metrics and qualitative market analysis.
Methodology
Our methodology is designed for accuracy, consistency, and timeliness. Here's how we produce the data you see on every city page.
Data Collection
We ingest data from MLS feeds (via authorized data partnerships), county assessor and recorder offices, public deed transfer records, and census/ACS demographic data. Each source is ingested daily where available.
Statistical Processing
Raw transaction data is cleaned using automated outlier detection (modified Z-score, IQR fencing). We apply seasonal adjustment using X-13ARIMA-SEATS and compute repeat-sales indices for consistent trend measurement.
Quality Assurance
Every published data point passes a multi-stage QA pipeline: automated range checks, month-over-month volatility flags, cross-source triangulation, and manual review by our research team for markets showing anomalous patterns.
Expert Review
Our analysts contextualize quantitative data with local market dynamics — zoning changes, employer moves, infrastructure projects, policy shifts — that pure data can't capture. This human layer produces our monthly Buy/Neutral/Wait signals.
Data Sources
LocalHomePrices™ aggregates data from the following categories of authoritative sources:
- MLS Data — Authorized feeds from regional Multiple Listing Services covering active, pending, and closed transactions
- Public Records — County assessor valuations, deed recordings, and transfer tax data from 3,000+ counties
- Federal Data — U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS), FHFA House Price Index, BLS employment data
- Mortgage Data — Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, HMDA loan-level data
- Demographic Data — Population estimates, migration flows, income distributions from Census and IRS SOI
Trademarks & Brand
LocalHomePrices™ is a trademark of LocalHomePrices.com. The LocalHomePrices™ name, logo, data methodology, and editorial signals are proprietary. Our domain has been continuously registered since 2000, establishing over two decades of brand authority in the home price data space.
The LocalHomePrices™ city reports, including the Buy/Neutral/Wait signal system, affordability index methodology, and price-by-type segmentation framework, represent our proprietary analytical approach.
Contact
Have questions about our data or methodology? We'd love to hear from you. Use our contact form to reach our team directly.
For partnership, licensing, or investor inquiries, please visit our inquiries page.