Most of the area is actually very walkable. The problem is in a lot of places (Perry North for example) there’s hardly anything to walk to.

Pittsburghers and especially those from the Northside will tell people looking to move that you have to check out the neighborhood block by block, meaning within a span of a couple blocks you can go from abandoned houses to beautifully restored Victorians. But the problem is a lot of the people looking to make a buck (mostly house flippers) don’t take any of that into account. Their data tells them that a remodeled 3br/2ba in 15212 is worth on average $250k and that’s what they stick to even in a place like Perry North. In an area like that, drop the price to $175k and you’ll have an offer within days, even in a rough looking area. But they don’t do their market research like people familiar with the area because they aren’t.

And the neighboring houses probably need a ton of work as well. So you put money into your place and don’t get any added clue because the surrounding houses drag down the value of yours.