However if you only plan on owning it for 2 years it would be better not to buy any real estate because statistically speaking with the costs for taxes, expenses, mortgage interest, realtors commission, and other things that come up you won’t make any money anyway.

So please don't generalize.Just look at the impressive statistics of the tourism growth in the Dominican Republic over the last 20 years.

Statistically 3 out of 4 husbands predecease their wives.

I spent a few weeks downloading data from the Census Bureau on every MSA in the country ("MSA" stands for "metropolitan statistical area" and is a city plus the suburbs surrounding it).

I will assume that because this gives them a good return ( The market growth is well documented (in dutch) on the CBS website : Central Bureau of statistics Curacao.) 

I brutally used MLS statistics to find him.

There's risk to inaction.There a lot more people that have failed to take action, and lost out on great investments, than there are people that were too bold and took action when they shouldn't.

The link is for downtown Chicago from May of 2023, but the statistics bear out for the entire Chicagoland region. 

Hi AllI am absolutely no expert, but the way I  gauge it is pretty simple, I start looking at pent up demand and if there is not enough stock to meet this demand ..... its probably a winner.Then it comes down to looking at some statistics, what is selling, who is buying, what is the average days for selling a property. 

I've never found statistics on this, but I've researched it a lot over the years and come to the conclusion that it is extremely rare, but it's also location dependent.