It depends....I know not that helpful but hear me outRegional focus The Pacific Northwest is experiencingsolid  population growth and that should lead to increasing prices but Seattle area cap rates are not attractive in MHO.

It's true because I am thinking of retiring in the Pacific Northwest I would like to purchase in an area that I would also like to live in (hence my difficulty in identifying an affordable area.)

@Hoda Jafarzadeh - Welcome to the Pacific Northwest!

I am traveling by car in the Pacific Northwest and was hoping to  stay with a friend in Portland OR this Tuesday Night and Wednesday Night which fell through because his wife would like an empty house for a few days while she is practicing for a violin performance.

Thanks and have a sunny Pacific Northwest Day!

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Welcome Gerald ... nice to have another member from the great pacific northwest join BP Nation!

Seems like who can boast the most about their Midwest location...LOL6 professional sports teams, regional health care center in a 4 state area, federal reserve is up in KC, more shore line on lakes than the Pacific coast in Cali, oh, and I live in the area, LOLHere's an odd stat, most who moved out of MO a few years ago moved to Cali and then, most who moved out of CA moved to MO, guess they decided to come back.....actually not, more moved out of CA and came to MO.Center of the US population is about 50 miles east of me.To housing, it's pretty affordable, tons of 3/2s 90 to 120K, but you can certainly go up, one of (or the) largest home owner occupied is about 10 miles south of me, some tech billionaire building a rock castle.Look for a diversified economy, health, education, manufacturing, tech, financial services and retail to drive your economy, pretty well in that order and growing here.I also think we'll see much smaller less expensive homes built in the future especially in more rural areas, post WWII tract houses, 1,000 - 1,200 sq ft.

In fact, my first deal in the US I purchased while in Australia (that's the bigger Island in the Pacific), and was a rehab here in Phoenix that needed to be totally gutted and reconfigured.I currently also manage projects for several Australians and a New Zealander of which only two have visited to check on things, but the rest are completely hands off.I know many of the members on here that invest in other states are the same.

I took some courses from Azusa Pacific back when I was stationed at the Presidio of SF, years ago.