About HousingGauge

HousingGauge is a national housing-market intelligence network. For every market we cover — a city, a ZIP code, a neighborhood — we track prices, inventory, days on market, rents, incomes, local jobs, mortgage rates and Federal Reserve policy, and distill them into one Market Opportunity Score from 0 to 100.

The goal is simple: make it possible to say “Ann Arbor just turned GREEN” or “Danville moved from 51 to 58 this month” — and have the reasons one click away.

Principles

• Data first. Every page is built from structured data, with sources and dates shown.
• Transparent methodology. Weights, formulas and limitations are published on the methodology page.
• Deterministic scores. Code computes every score. AI can help write the weekly narrative, but every number it uses is checked against the data, and it never decides a score.
• Independent. Local Market Partners and sponsors can present a market; they cannot influence it.
• Conditions, not predictions. The score describes the market today. It is not a forecast or advice.

Outputs

Each market has a page, a five-minute weekly podcast, a written weekly report and email alerts when its status changes. The same pipeline produces all of them from the same weekly data snapshot.

Pilot

HousingGauge is launching with ten pilot markets, scored from public data: Redfin (housing market), Zillow (rents), FRED, the New York Fed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau.

HousingGauge began as a Meykr experiment exploring whether AI could create useful local market intelligence at national scale.