The estate agents are definitely putting higher values on property but Im not convinced those prices are being achieved and in my area the sold prices don't reflect the bubble that is hyped up in the media.

Sell my current primary resident in Edmonds (20 minutes north of Seattle) while the Seattle market is super hyped up right now. ($800K ARV, $470 loan at 2.69%).

Just be aware that often hype is literally just that, and if your target is long term buy and hold you can expect the hype to wear off pretty much anywhere over a 20 year hold.

--https://www.amazon.ca/Real-Est...Why I recommend this: A simple, straight forward, approach to take all the hype and baloney out of Real Estate.

I don't need hype but help.        

A lot more hyped up REI enthusiasts now than back in 2017/18 when I started on BP.

So I am not sure what your fixation is on telling me and other investors to do their own pro-forma...I agree with that statement...buyers should do their own numbersIt does not make my point any less significant, realtors(like all other humans) make some pretty outrageous claims, and/or small stretches of truth to hype a landlocked swamp parcel(figuratively speaking, sometimes), because the asset needs to be hyped because no one would buy it otherwise...and this can be a time suck from real motivated buyers having to filter out goofy deals.

So I do respect you even if it would not seem that way from that.There is some stuff about being an agent in the profile a little deeper in the like occupations or experience sections, but I don't hype it in the main stuff.  

Originally posted by @Joshua Pagan:@Joseph ODonovan In my opinion I feel that the inflation of home values is based upon hype.

I think new investors, including myself, get pretty hyped up over the idea of house-hacking from all the podcasts and the youtube videos, but the more I read about it the more I am becoming skeptical, or at least more careful.