Help me find Santa Barbara housing data?

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Submitted by beanmaestro on January 13, 2009 - 10:23am

I'm up in Santa Barbara, and for the last few years I've noticed that the Santa Barbara/Goleta prices seem to be in line with the San Diego mid & upper tiers... not really a suprise, given the similarity. However, my wife is lining up post-grad job offers, and it looks like we'll be staying in Santa Barbara.

So now I have a more vested interest in quantatatively tracking SB prices... at the very least I'd like to graph median prices by city or zip. But a Googling effort last night found no systemic data; November annual-change data on CAR's website, a couple out-of-date stat sets, random years-old news articles, and a couple housing blogs that haven't been updated in a half-year.

So, help me fellow Piggs. Where can I find data sets on housing info to make my own graphs? Or is there a pay site that does this for me and is worth the $20 to not do it myself? I really want to test my theory on correlation between SB and SD upper tier...

‹ anyone even slightley bullish about RE market? Santaluz and Crosby: High end inventory ›
*bump*
Submitted by beanmaestro on January 13, 2009 - 6:09pm.

*bump*

Did you try a "Santa Barbara
Submitted by sdduuuude on January 13, 2009 - 6:12pm.

Did you try a "Santa Barbara Case Schiller" search. Not sure if that market is broken out or not.

Check old archives in the Calculated Risk blog. Seems he plots a bunch of cali markets every now and then.

Rich pays Data Quick for
Submitted by sdduuuude on January 13, 2009 - 6:14pm.

Rich pays Data Quick for data, I believe.
Maybe he has some SB data, or would work with you to get it on his account. My guess - could cost a couple grand to get that info direct from DQ, but I don't know.

sdduuuude wrote:Rich pays
Submitted by Eugene on January 13, 2009 - 6:31pm.

sdduuuude wrote:
Rich pays Data Quick for data, I believe.

Is that true? Can we arrange something to give me access to data as well, for my blog? Thus far I've been data-mining SDLookup - rather dirty method, not guaranteed to catch all sales, and I have very limited data beyond 1999.