Pretty interesting article on how accounting tricks have created funny money in tech hubs like San Francisco and Seattle that have inflated the real estate markets:https://www.redfin.com/blog/2017/09/when-even-tech...Both as a real estate investor and as a career software engineer who has worked at a tech startup in Oklahoma City for the last ten years, I have been deeply involved in this trend.  I

BUT they have a lot of the newer trendy styles and colors.... 

I own a fair amount of properties here and, though my property values, rents, and taxes have doubled and tripled, I don't think this trend is ending anytime soon. 

If you're looking for areas that are near the "trendy" areas, but not quite in them so you get more bang for your buck, I'd look into places like Avondale and Irving Park.  

I see what looks to be a good deal of a home that is on the edge of a trendy neighborhood.

They do things like use comps that are in terrible shape to comp to a house that was recently beautifully rehabbed or use comps from deep in the ghetto to comp a house that is in a hip trendy good area or in one case I had the appraiser use a comp from Independence MO for a house that was in South Hyde park....10 miles away and in a completely different city!!!

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The trend I am seeing is that more an more investors find that neither the agent nor the license is really necessary in the current info-rich environment.

Now we have sticker shock and we are seeing a slow down in the market, but that trend is shallow, temporary and very relative: if you go 160mph and you you slow down to 120mph, you are still going twice normal speed!

My wife and I are considering buying a duplex in a major metro in the South, in a rapidly developing and trendy in-town area close to downtown.