Helsinki rental

A housing market study


Juan Carlos Mayo

Helsinki


Greater Helsinki is the only metropolitan area in Finland. It comprises several surrounding municipalities and over 20% of the country’s population. This makes it the largest and most interesting housing market in the country too.

Helsinki housing market

Using a simple web crawler one can easily extract a data set with a few features:


  • Housing type
  • Monthly rent in EUR
  • Size in square meters
  • Number of rooms
[1] "Final data size: 528 x 4"


Extracted on November 17th 2014

Helsinki housing market

And an exploratory analysis can provide very interesting information

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But, could we access each and every detail…

… without having to code?

… faster?

… more intuitively?

Helsinki housing market app