Harrisburg Holds Up to Foreclosure Crisis
April 8, 2008
Real estate web site hotpads.com introduced an interesting feature to their real estate mapping software for visualizing foreclosure rates called the foreclosure heat map. It combines the number listings of foreclosure properties with the total housing units by state, county, or zip code. Drilling in on Harrisburg reveals a pleasant picture:
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There’s Harrisburg, clearly below average. That tip of red at the bottom of the image is the tip of a region of above average foreclosure rates in York County.
April 14, 2008 at 4:43 pm
and here I was hoping the bubble pop would net me some cheap housing in the 17102!
darn Hburg and its stable markets! (this, of course, is a good thing for everyone else!)
April 14, 2008 at 4:45 pm
just an observation–hotpads uses almost 10 year old census data for everything else (like the rents, totally misleading)
Otherwise it’s a good site and a great catch.