HomeIQ

Real Estate and Demographics, Unified. Enter a zip code, explore listings, and access vital demographic data for smarter decisions. Find your dream property or next investment opportunity with HomeIQ!

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Inspiration

We were inspired to create HomeIQ to explore areas of web development and data analysis we were not familiar with and to learn something new from this event by tackling CoStar's real estate hack.

What it does

HomeIQ combines 2023 real estate data with 2017 US Census demographic data, allowing users to explore real estate listings by entering a zip code while also providing essential demographic information for that area. Source

How we built it

  • Four cups of HTML and CSS
  • A dash of GoogleMaps API
  • [REDACTED] cans of Red Bull
  • Two tablespoons of tears

Challenges we ran into

  • Not familiar with GitHub, Flask, CSS, HTML, or GoogleMaps API
  • Finding public real estate data with locations included to use with GoogleMaps API
    • Tried to webscrape our own but it didn't work, hit a roadblock

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Formatting webpages with CSS
  • Basic intro to GoogleMaps API

What we learned

Through this project, we learned how to use GitHub, Flask, CSS, html, and GoogleMaps API.

What's next for HomeIQ

We had a clear goal of what we wanted to achieve, just not the means or resources to do it. Here's what we have planned:

  • Webscraping for real-time real estate data
  • Integrating real estate data with GoogleMaps API
  • GoogleMaps API streetview to view listed properties
  • Demographic census data displayed in multiple ways when searching a zip code
  • Hosting on a live site
  • Training modules for financial tips and smart home buying (HomeIQ!)
  • Historic real estate data and how communities of certain demographic groups were discriminated against and how we have improved since then
  • Machine learning to analyze real estate data to predict trends
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