I've been priced out of my native southern California, and I couldn't find a good tool to visualize median home prices so I built one for myself, and then decided to take a little extra time to stick it on a cheap web host for others to play with.

    homesareexpensive.com

    This tool shows *all* zillow home listings for a subset of states[1], and calculates the median price for all home listings within each color coded tile. There are 558224 listings which were collected using hasdata.com on 9/28/2025.

    The frontend is react and OpenLayers, backend is flask, and the server is a 1 core hostinger vps (we'll see how it holds up!). It's a little rough around the edges, but hopefully someone finds it useful.

    [1]: States collected: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas

    by f33tpix

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