Academic research in real estate is critical in helping the public, industry professionals, and policymakers better understand the complexities of the ever-changing real estate market. From analyzing, understanding, and forecasting markets to urban planning and development, there are endless research topics that academics can pursue.
Officially discontinued on September 30, 2023, the Zillow Transaction and Assessment Dataset (ZTRAX) was once the largest real estate database in the US for academic use.
With this resource no longer available, researchers might wonder where to find a new source for real estate and property data.
Dewey Data can help! Our platform hosts dozens of real estate data products for academics and offers easy, publishing-friendly access.
What is Dewey Data?
Dewey Data is your trusted academic research partner. We help researchers unlock invaluable insights by bringing new data to the academic community. Academics can easily search and discover new datasets on our platform with publishing-friendly data terms. They can also meet and collaborate with other data enthusiasts as we work together to solve global problems.
Our datasets cover various topics, like real estate, public policy, healthcare, corporate finance, workforce management, and more.
An Alternative to ZTRAX for Real Estate Research
Researchers will find proprietary real estate datasets from world-class data partners on the Dewey Data platform.
Similar to ZTRAX, our data partner, The Warren Group, offers researchers access to:
- Property characteristics for more than 155 million properties across the US.
- Fifteen years of mortgage and deed transaction data, plus 33 years of data from within New England.
- Millions of detailed public records.
But that’s not all.
Our growing list of data providers with real estate products also includes RentHub, REsimplifi, SafeGraph, Advan, Pass_by, and Dataplor. The variety of data found on Dewey Data gives researchers access to a lot of high-quality real estate research data, available all in one place, like:
- Residential Rental Data (RentHub)
- Commercial Real Estate Listings (REsimplifi)
- Global POI Data (SafeGraph)
- Monthly Foot Traffic Patterns (Advan)
- And more!
Real Estate Research & Use Cases
The ability to discover new real estate datasets on the Dewey Data platform means that that it's now easier than ever to uncover fresh research topics.
Middlebury College’s article “Migration Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of New England Showing Movements down the Urban Hierarchy and Ensuing Impacts on Real Estate Markets” is a strong example of what is possible with our platform. By leveraging data from our partner SafeGraph, these researchers were able to examine the impacts of COVID-19 urban to rural mobility on the receiving real estate markets.
Other use cases for our products include research on real estate market trends, urban planning, housing affordability, location intelligence, and economic conditions.
Get Started
There are a few ways that Dewey users can access our real estate data for academic research. Subscribers can instantly access several of our data products with a Research Team subscription. Other products, such as the ones from The Warren Group and RentHub, are available to license individually.
All available datasets can be browsed and sampled by creating a free account.
Happy researching!