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Jason Mendoza
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Market Choice - Market Analysis Resources/Data accumulation?

Jason Mendoza
  • Specialist
  • Gilbert, AZ
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I have a choice that had been a portion of what is keeping me from jumping into full investment.  

I have since found a path forward and will be moving on this soon, however I am still interested in this topic. 

When beginning, or choosing a new market, what resources are used by seasoned investors to determine suitability of a market?

Some useful resources I have come across thus far:

Cromford Report - Phoenix area (overall real estate market, specific for PHX area)

bls.gov (economic information in general)

http://www.city-data.com/ (more economic/general information)

www.trulia.com (crime, schools, etc.)

Are there paid sites/reports that can be found to compare overall markets bullet by bullet for a period of time and over time?

rent trends, population movement trends, population change trends, job change trends, pay trends, crime trends, etc.

All of interest to me...

I know it takes time and research to get this stuff done...but is there a resource out there that might make it easier (at a cost, or otherwise)?

Happy Friday!

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Tim Winter
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Tim Winter
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  • Phoenix, AZ
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@Jason Mendoza If you're looking for rental property data, most often rentals follow two things. Job growth and availability of rentals. You mentioned the Cromford report and city-data.com which are good information for current or past data, but if you're trying to forecast into the future, you need to get involved with the data of where things are going to be developing in the future. That data you can get from where things are going to be built in the future. Where are permits being pulled, where are the areas of development happening, who has plans to move into which sectors of the city (i.e. large business moving into the area like Amazon, Apple, Walmart, Banner, banks, ASU (and all their affiliate campuses and satelitte campuses) Intel, USAirways, Dignity, Amex.. if you can follow where these large employers are bringing in jobs, then housing will follow. 

If you join and attend the chamber of commerce or building planning meetings and organizations you can get a sneak peak into where the next areas of future growth will happen. PM me if you'd like some more info on how to get started. 

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