Jimmy Lo
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NYC Rental Market Scanner

Automated daily tracking of rental listings and market trends

## Overview The NYC Rental Market Scanner is an automated pipeline that collects and analyzes rental listing data across New York City on a daily basis. It provides structured intelligence on pricing trends, inventory levels, and neighborhood dynamics. ## How It Works 1. **Data Collection**: Daily scraping of major listing platforms for rental inventory 2. **Cleaning & Deduplication**: Standardization of listing data, removal of duplicates and stale listings 3. **Analysis**: Automated computation of market metrics — median rents, days on market, inventory levels, price changes 4. **Reporting**: Daily and weekly summary reports delivered via automated channels ## Key Features - Covers all five NYC boroughs - Tracks 2BR/2BA condo rentals as a benchmark segment - Identifies emerging pricing trends before they appear in official reports - Generates formatted market intelligence reports ## Technical Stack Built with Python, scheduled via cron jobs, with data stored in structured formats for analysis. Reports are generated and distributed automatically.

Topics

Housing EconomicsReal Estate Analytics

Methods

Web ScrapingTime Series AnalysisData Pipeline

Tools

PythonPandasBeautifulSoupGoogle Chat API

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