Trendy, improving, stable, hot etc.Thanks in advance.

Its been against our better judgement, but the niche for most of our properties has been SF or duplex units in trendy neighborhoods.

It became trendy and it is going to stay like it for some years.

This is a national average of sales above $1m but the trend is the trend.

As a general rule, if property taxes are high in a city/town now, and they have a looming pension crisis coming in the future (many do), the trend is not in your/our favor.I admit that I don't have a lot of Massachusetts experience/exposure however, so it may be that the price point and lower assessed value more than makes up for any higher tax rate.

Halifax is largely over priced these days, but with enough digging you can still find some reasonable deals in some of the less trendy parts of the HRM.Charlottetown is a very small market.  

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.