Methodology
How the Housing Explorer works
The Housing Explorer surfaces 300+ reference cities with their median rent, median home price, price-to-rent ratio, and price-to-income ratio drawn from a mix of public data (OECD, Eurostat, FHFA, Zillow Research, HM Land Registry) and editorial corrections for cities with thin public coverage. City-level illustrations are generated once per city via a Gemini image model and cached, so repeat visits don't re-generate the asset.
Price-to-rent is the simplest tell for whether a city is a buyer's or renter's market: ratios below 15 generally favour buying, 15-20 is break-even, and above 20 favours renting + investing the difference. Price-to-income over 8 flags a market where median households are structurally priced out of ownership without inherited capital.
The explorer deliberately omits specific-listing data to stay on the right side of partner-portal terms of service — for live listings we link out to Realtor.com, Idealista, Rightmove, and other regional portals.