🧠 Brainiac’s Corner

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Every number on this page comes from real closings β€” what actually sold or signed since July 2019, never asking prices. Rising numbers show β–² gold, falling show β–Ό blue. Commercial coverage is partial (many big commercial deals close privately), so we label it honestly.

City Scoreboard

Which cities do the most business, what they trade at, and which way each one is heading. Click any column to re-rank. Click a city to explore it.

Chart Lab

Pick a market segment, a stat, and up to four cities to race against the whole market. Hover any chart for exact numbers.

The Market, Year by Year

How many deals actually closed each year β€” sales vs signed leases. 2019 and 2026 are part-years.

Fastest-Growing Cities

Median price, trailing 12 months vs the 12 months before β€” plus how many deals back the number (thin markets are labeled).

Cooling Cities

Same math, other direction β€” where medians fell versus the prior 12 months.

Where Buyers Hold the Power

The deal-hunting board: cities where sellers cave the most β€” low gets-ask, long sits, falling prices, shrinking volume. High score = walk in with a lowball. Home & condo sales, last 12 months. Every city with 100+ deals is scanned β€” small soft markets included, not just the biggest cities.

Died on the Market

Listings that vanished from the market without a closing on record β€” withdrawn, expired, or the listing simply went quiet on them. These sellers already failed once at their price: the softest doors to knock on. Every night we cross-check each one against recorded closings β€” including relists that sold under a new listing number β€” so anything that actually sold drops off this board. One row per address. Tracking started mid-June 2026, so the board grows every night. Click a row for the full listing.

Best Month To Sell (or Sign)

Closings per calendar month, averaged across the complete years 2020–2025 β€” partial years (2019 started in July, 2026 stops mid-year) are left out so every month gets a fair compare. The tall bars are the busy season.

Rent, by Bedroom, Over Time

Median signed rent (not asking) per bedroom count, per year.

Highest-Rent Cities Right Now

Median signed rent over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before. Cities with 100+ signed leases. Click a row to open it in the Chart Lab.

Furnished Premium

What furniture is worth: median signed rent, furnished vs unfurnished β€” same city, same bedroom count, last 24 months. 30+ leases on each side.

Compares furnished vs unfurnished leases of the same bedroom count in the same city. Part of the premium can be seasonal β€” short winter leases are usually furnished and rent higher per month.

New-Construction Premium

Brand-new (built 2023+) vs existing stock (pre-2020), $/sq ft β€” same city AND same property type, last 24 months of home sales. 30+ sales on each side.

Compares new vs old within the same type only β€” single-family vs single-family, condo vs condo β€” so a wave of luxury spec homes can no longer be compared against old condos.

Luxury Corner β€” $2M+ Cities

Home & condo sales of $2M or more. Where the big money closes, last 12 months vs the 12 before.

Waterfront Premium

Median $/sq ft, waterfront vs not β€” same city, last 24 months of home sales. Only cities with 25+ sales on each side.

Pool Premium

Same math for private pools.

Multifamily Corner

Closed multifamily sales: who trades, at what $/unit, and whether buildings are getting bigger. 2–4 units = small, 5–9 = mid, 10+ = big.

Hall of Records

All-time records across the whole 2019–today window.

City Records

The biggest sale and the biggest signed lease ever recorded in each of the 30 busiest cities.

Before you lean on a number

These boards are the result of sifting more than 1.6 billion data points into something an agent can actually read in a minute. At that scale, some of it will be wrong — a mistyped price, a duplicate record, a closing filed under the wrong city, a building counted as the wrong size. We would rather tell you that up front than pretend otherwise. What you see here is what the data says, which is not the same thing as the truth about any one property.

So please treat this as a starting point and nothing more. None of it is investment, legal, tax, lending or appraisal advice, and nothing on this page is a promise or a guarantee about what any property will sell for, rent for, or be worth. Past closings do not predict the next one.

Do your own due diligence. Before you buy, sell, list, sign or make an offer: walk the property, pull the records yourself, verify the numbers with the county and with your own attorney, accountant, lender and inspector. Every decision is yours, and so is the outcome. Numbers here refresh nightly and will change.

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