RE Market Data Sources

[Rich Vetter]

Hey BP team - I'm wondering where most you get your market data when you are looking at market trends, prices, growth, etc.

Do you pay for it? Do you get reliable data for free?

I'm planning to invest out-of-state and am hoping to narrow down some of the areas I'm considering using good old fashioned analytics.

[Jim D.]

You should be able to find the main things online with a little digging.

--Population growth from census

--Job/wage growth is usually easily found in the news

--Local builders association often publishes homebuilding stats

--Number of recent celebrity sightings in local news

[Rich Vetter]

Thanks @Jim D.. Interesting to hear the celebrity sightings!! 

How about home prices and recent sales/rentals? Anywhere to get a data dump of certain areas so I can efficiently run some analyses? I have a lot of experience analyzing, manipulating and trending large data sets, but am unsure of where to get some of these numbers.

[Steve B.]

https://www.zillow.com/research/data/

[Aidan Osterdyk]

Hello Rich,

I just saw this post and I thought I would send a link of some sources that I use or other professionals use in their research at a post I just made in the link below!

https://www.biggerpockets.com/...