Quality US Real Estate Market Data at the Metro/City Level

[Pat McQuillan]

Hi Everyone,

I'm a data scientist interested in buying out of state property, and it boggles me how difficult it is to find US-wide real estate market data at the metro/city-level. Zillow's API is no longer offered (or they make it extremely hard to access these days - have had no luck finding an updated link/page for it), Redfin has broad-stroke CSVs you can download that only give 5-10 fields of info and not often at the metro area, you can't legally create a tool to crawl these websites...

I'm looking for 1 (or a handful of sources) to pull together basic metrics at the metro/city level for US real estate. I know the data is out there. I'm basically looking for the following fields (or whatever I can get):

- Median Sales Price

- Median Rent

- Vacancy Rate

- 5 or 10-year Property Value Appreciation Rate

- Any historical values for the above to compare against current

Any tips/bits of wisdom folks can share would be appreciated!