Real Estate Market Data & Trends Forum
How ya'll feeling about rates going up over 7%? You dealing with it, or still praying they're gonna go back down to the 3's?
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Find a LenderQuick note for owners with Orange County rentals heading into renewal season. The data: for rent increases that start between Aug 1, 2026 and Jul 31, 2027, the statewide Tenant Protection Act cap for Orange County is 8.7%, up from 8% the year before. Santa Ana's local ordinance is lower: 2.87% fo...
I’m curious what everyone’s experience has been with investing in the Raleigh area lately. Are you still finding deals that make sense, or does it feel like you have to dig a lot deeper to find something worth pursuing? I’d love to hear what everyone’s working on right now, whether that’s flips, ...
✏️Spent this morning running a pencil sheet on every active duplex in Oxnard zips 93030 and 93033 (5 listings, $750K-$929K). Terms: 25% down, 7.25%, 30-yr, taxes at 1.25% of list price. NOI uses ~5% vacancy, plus insurance, maintenance and reserves. Result: none clear 1.0x DSCR on in-place rents....
Heartland is the MLS that covers Kansas City. Typically it's an hour radius. Every month they post the recent months statistics. This encompasses the whole Heartland so take that into account. 🏠 Average sale price: $399,619, up 7.7% YoY 📅 Average days on market: 42 days, up 7.7% 📦 Months of suppl...
Hey everyone! It seems like a lot of investors have Raleigh on their list right now. I invest here myself and work with local and out-of-state investors in this market, so I understand the interest. But it's also not a PERFECT market and I see potential investors get a lot wrong. Most people who ...
This was a quiet week on the surface, but there's a real disconnect between what the Fed is saying and what the market is pricing. The Minutes Are More Hawkish Than the Headlines The Fed raised the Federal Funds Rate by 25 basis points in September, and the minutes showed "most participants" felt...
Two things happened last week that most people read separately. Put together, they make a pretty clear case against waiting for the market to get cheaper. The Hike Might Not Be a One and Done The Fed raised 25 basis points on September 16. What changed last week is that officials started telling ...
Hi all, Rob here, an agent in Louisville. Continuing my monthly Louisville numbers. In September, fewer houses went under contract in Jefferson County than in December. December. The week of Christmas. The month "nobody buys a house." 530 single-family homes went pending in September. August was ...
According to latest data, Austin metro is beating all the large cities for employment/unemployment rates. Austin is at 3.9% unemployment. DFW is at 4.4% unemployment. SA is at 4.5% unemployment. Htown is at 5%. To put things in perspective the US is at 4.2%. Austin metro has always been the job c...
If you bought a flip a few months ago, started the rehab, and are now getting close to completion —what’s your move? Seems like the market has slowed down and things are staying on longer. If the house isn't selling, what would be the best plan of action? Would you: • Keep lowering the price and ...
For investors, it's not just about the rate itself, it's about how financing costs affect the overall deal numbers. How are current rates affecting the deals you're willing to pursue?
Hey everyone! If you're thinking about or already actively investing in Raleigh, North Carolina and trying to keep up with what's happening here—I went pretty deep into the weeds in the MLS to see where the market is heading as we wrap up summer. Bottom line up front: The biggest trend we're seei...
What operational tech actually moves the needle on ROI when scaling a short term rental portfolio? The speaker topics for VRWS 2026 heavily emphasize building scalable systems, optimizing dynamic revenue management with AI, and maintaining margins while growing to hundreds of doors. From an asset...
Orange County apartment vacancy reached 4.3% in Q2 2026, up from 3.8% a year earlier, while average asking rent rose only 1.8% to $2,727 a month (source: Kidder Mathews, Q2 2026 Orange County Multifamily Market Report, CoStar data). What it means for owners: OC is still one of the tightest market...
Does anybody see the potential of investing in multifamily homes near construction sites like LNG plants, Data centers, etc? I live in lake Charles where there's major projects like these all around the city and surrounding city's bringing in tons of people to smaller towns. Looking for someone t...
Since 2022, Bay Area multifamily prices have dropped by roughly 25%. With the Fed currently in another rate-hike cycle, asset prices face continued downward pressure. Given this environment, which strategy would you choose? Option A (Execute Now): Acquire a value-add property in a premium Bay Are...
Supply, policy and carrying costs are all shifting at once, and the picture looks very different on a national map than it does inside New York's five boroughs. The Apartment Pipeline Is More Concentrated Than Metro Data Suggests Apartment construction may look broadly distributed on a metro map,...
China is giving first-time homebuyers a mortgage subsidy. Starting October 1, China is introducing a new program designed to make homeownership more affordable for qualifying first-time buyers. Instead of giving buyers cash toward their down payment, the government will help ubsidize a portion of...
We’re into the Q4 market and here's where things stand in the Knoxville Metro as September ends. Knox County home sales decreased 1.5% in Sept from 2025. We're also up in total inventory so sales would otherwise be relatively flat given the increase in listings. The median sale price was $402,588...
A week ago the conversation was about how many more hikes were coming. This week's data flipped that pretty quickly but I wouldn't overreact in either direction. Inflation Is Softer Than the Headline August PCE came in at 3.4% annually against a 3.7% forecast, and core PCE held at 3% against 3.3%...
What housing shortage? U.S. Housing Supply Is Nearly Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels. There were 1.16 million homes for sale in September. Up 101% from the 2021 low. Just 5% below pre-pandemic levels. And the trend is still moving in the direction of more supply. Let me say this before I get jumped a...