Personal project · Housing

What a place really costs

Rent is only part of what a home costs. Give the tool an address and it adds up everything else: the supermarket, the gym, the trip to work, by car or by transit. You get one monthly number per home, so two homes can be compared on what they really cost.

Working prototype

8homes analyzed, 11 to 27 July 2026
1,099places mapped around them
3,807trips timed on foot, by car and by transit

Figures as of 22 October 2026.

01

Everything around the address, and how long it takes to get there.

It looks for the most popular places and also for the closest ones, so the small shop around the corner isn’t missed. Switch the second search off and see what goes missing.

Simulation · illustrative data23 places found
Wide search · 6 kmShort search · 800 m
Schematic, not to scale. Select a pin.

Top 10 by popularity

    Results from both searches are merged without duplicates.

    Your corrections stay.Anything you fill in by hand is never overwritten by the next search.
    02

    One monthly number, line by line.

    Rent, food, the trip to work, car or transit pass, gym. Change a choice, like living with or without a car, and the total changes with it.

    Simulation · illustrative data
    My supermarket
    0per month

      Food = a base budget × how expensive the supermarket you pick is (an estimate set by hand).

      Car or pass, never both.Fuel and a transit pass are never added together, so the same trip is never paid twice.
      No made-up costs.A line with no value yet shows a dash and stays out of the total.
      03

      No surprise bills from the map service.

      The map service charges for every search. So the tool asks you to confirm the address first, reuses anything it looked up in the last 30 days, and shows what each run cost.

      Simulation · illustrative data

      What the tool shows

      Estimated spend

      $0.00

      • Nothing paid yet.

      An estimate from the map service’s prices, not an invoice.

      Paste a listing, get the details.Price, building fees, deposit, size and floor are picked out of the listing text. Anything unclear stays empty.
      04

      What this becomes in a business.

      • A real-estate agency shows each listing with what it really costs to live there each month.

      • A company moving staff, or choosing where to open, compares each option on what it costs day to day.