The point David makes in the episode is don't think that refinancing to a higher rate is bad so you shouldn't do it, take the analytical approach and see what you need to make in a return and then look at your options.

It's easy to get all excited about the analytics, market identification, demographic trends, and spotting value, but in the end our investment choices impact real people.

Then the bidder can exchange their certificate for the judicial deed.There are a number of deep-pocket groups at these sales with intense analytical systems, it'd be very rare to get a property for 55% of its value.

Moreover, you can use a data analytics site like Costar for commercial multifamily properties, but that'll get expensive quickly. 

What real estate related company and specific area would be good to work for if you wanted to focus on analytics as a career and at the same time learn a lot about real estate to develop your real estate investments?  

@Samuel Gates I’m not sure why your looking for cap rates for an area as any analytics you find for a city are going to be based on HUD reporting and not an accurate reflection of what the market is doing.

You want to use your analytic brain.

Hello, I'm just beginning my journey into real estate investing, and I want to know if anyone has any good sources on data analytics for real estate.

I have great analytical skills, and lots of business/finance experience, but have never owned investment property before. 

Or one that visualizes areas with salary growth outpacing (or not) the appreciation of MF RE in that same area.I know that I could create my own visualizations with analytics tools like PowerBI but in order to do that I need sources of data (typically in a CSV format though web page tables can be scraped.)And of course if someone has already invented this wheel that makes it even easier so I'm also interested in any analytics apps/sites that can be useful for exploring and comparing regional markets.