NextScore, finding the next neighborhood before the market does

Everyone knows the popular neighborhoods. By the time a place makes a list of neighborhoods on the rise, prices have caught up and the opportunity is mostly gone. The question I wanted to answer was harder. How do you find the ones that aren't on anyone's radar yet?

The signs are out there, they're just scattered across public records. Someone files for a demolition permit. A new restaurant applies for a liquor license. Metro plans a new station. Each one means little on its own. Together they tell you that money and people are on the way.

NextScore pulls those signals together for any address in Los Angeles, in the city or the unincorporated county.

• Development momentum. Building permits, weighted toward the ones that matter like demolitions and new multifamily construction, plus planning cases for projects that haven't broken ground yet.
• Culture and lifestyle. New liquor license applications are one of the earliest signs that foot traffic and investment are coming, along with what's already nearby.
• Transit. Planned and current LA Metro projects.

Down to the block

Neighborhood averages hide too much. Two addresses a few blocks apart can be headed in different directions, so every address gets its own score and a trajectory that shows whether it's rising or cooling.

From there you can browse opportunities on a map, follow trends over time, and compare neighborhoods or listings side by side. I built it with Lovable, which let me get from the question to a working tool quickly.