Photo by Sun photographer Kenneth K. Lam
Want to see what the housing market in the Baltimore metro area looks like down to the city neighborhoods and suburban communities?
You're in luck. Words, maps, photos and databases -- take your pick:
--Read about the trends I saw when I crunched all the January-through-June home sales.
--Check out these nifty interactive maps of the region: prices here, sales figures here. Three cheers to Alex Tribou on the Sun's graphics team for tackling this time-consuming effort.
--Enjoy the photo galleries of housing-market extremes. Priciest places here. Other top 10s, including most sales and biggest price drops, here. Huzzahs to editor Liz Hacken for turning the data into a visual tour of the region.
--See all the price and sales data in ZIP codes and city neighborhoods that interest you. Here's the searchable database for ZIP codes, and here's the database for city neighborhoods. (Areas had to have at least five sales in the first half of this year and the first half of last year to be included in the analysis, and thus the databases.) Applause to web guru Lauren Custer for creating the databases.
Hope you find it all informative and interesting.