They are susceptible to the same market forces as any other real estate. 

Estate Planning and Wealth Transfer: If you're building a portfolio to pass down to your family, life insurance ensured your heirs inherit your properties without the burden of estate taxes or forced sales to cover expenses. 3.

Buying an ugly fixer-upper for a good price that is surrounded by much more expensive properties and fixing it up to the median is the best way to force appreciation quickly and set yourself up for success IMO.

If you’re open to waiting, you could buy the property from the winning bidder at a discount during the redemption window.Unfortunately, you can’t buy the unpaid taxes as a lien and force foreclosure like in other states.

With single family investing it's about finding properties at 50-75% of "retail prices" in a neighborhood and then renovating them to improve them to "force equity" and then refinancing to pull out cash - essentially a BRRRR.

City proper has been on 5 year bear market completely unrelated to anything political, the suburbs have been adding inventory since the summer but are still very low but any measure and have actually gotten tighter the last few month, while I am open to the idea these cuts could eventually have some effect on the market, about 20% of the dc area is federal employees, let’s say the federal government cut the work force 25% which would be huge, that’s 5% of the population, but a good number of those people are either two income households where one person works in the private and/or the person being laid can go get a similar job in the provide sector l, the percentage of households who would be forced to sell thier house over this is likely in very low single digits.

.✅ Tariffs & “America First” ManufacturingTrump has made it clear—he’s bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.Expect tariffs on China, Mexico, and other foreign producers—forcing companies to reinvest in American infrastructure, factories, and real estate.That means more demand for industrial real estate, warehouses, and logistics hubs right here in the U.S.And guess who’s already looking into those opportunities?

In a way, I think the BRRRR process is really the process of "adding value" to a property and then pulling out that forced equity as much as you can.

You can also force equity by buying homes that need work and getting it up to market standard.

The thing was I couldn't afford the housing there and it forced me to look elsewhere.