Every metro submarket, scored by a Buyer Leverage Index. Blue means buyers have negotiating room; rust means sellers hold the edge. Pick a month, then switch between the map, the ranking, and the full table. Zoom the map for city and highway detail.
Buyer Leverage Index = average metro percentile of four signals, inverted so higher = more buyer-friendly: active-inventory change YoY, share of listings cutting price, days on market, and (inverted) pending-to-active ratio, recomputed within each month. Only ZIPs with 50+ active listings shown. Source: Alvin Slate Market Data warehouse (realtor.com listing data by ZIP). County outlines: US Census. Highways: OpenStreetMap. ZIP centroids: US-Zip-Codes-JSON (30363 added manually). Historical and local, not a forecast. Equal Housing Opportunity.