Ranking cities by rent to sales price ratio (aka The 1% rule)

[Stacey LaBarge]

For my own investments, I wanted a list of cities with the highest rent to sales price ratio (aka The 1% rule) as a starting point for research. After some searching, I didn't find what I was looking for, so I made it myself! Sharing here to hopefully be useful to the community.

In plot format, it looks like this:

Listing the top 30 in table format looks like:

If variations of this data would be helpful, let me know. Now that I have all the data downloaded, it is pretty easy to make quick changes and share the results.

[Justin Brin]

Hi @Stacey LaBarge,

It's a starting point but you will need to add data about demographics, income, economy strength. In many cases there are a higher rent/sale ratio with areas with higher risk.

Here is a list of some popular investor locations:

Dallas, Texas
Houston, Texas
Phoenix, Arizona,
St. Louis, Missouri
Charlotte, North Carolina
Austin, Texas
Cincinnati, Ohio
Kansas City, Missouri
Columbus, Ohio,
Indianapolis, Indiana
Nashville, Tennessee
Jacksonville, Florida
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Louisville, Kentucky
Memphis, Tennessee
Tucson, Arizona