This post is a follow-up to my post on how to load data from Zillow. Housing prices have soared through the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a lot of discussion about housing affordability. The quickly growing home values coupled with the subsequent raising of interest rates on mortgages are seeing more and more people priced out of the ability to purchase a home. While rent prices have increased as well, they haven’t increased as sharply as home prices. ...
Zillow is a well-known website widely used by those searching for a home or curious to find out the value of their current home. What you may not know is that Zillow has a dedicated research page. To make their website work optimally, they churn through tons of data on the American housing market. They share insights they gleaned via zillow.com/research. If you visit their research website you’ll notice they have a data page where you can download some really cool data sets for your own research. They even have an API with which you can load data directly, but you’ll have to register for access. In this post, we’ll look at how to load the CSV files that are available for direct download into SAS for analysis. ...