FinanceThat is until you look on the left side of the chart and see that what appears to be a skyrocketing amount of houses being bought by institutional investors only changed the percentage they purchased from about 0.5% to 2.5%, not exactly what I would call a “significant chunk.”...Continued: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/wall-street-is-not-buying...

I have watched the values skyrocket over the past 12 months.

It does VERY well with STRS and has a ton of equity as I bought it in 2015 and the value has skyrocketed.  

It does VERY well with STRS and has a ton of equity as I bought it in 2015 and the value has skyrocketed.

Prices have skyrocketed in my area and based off comps, I believe my prop would appraise for around $700k.

I was initially looking in Atlanta but got priced out as properties kept skyrocketing… also looked in Jackson Mississippi before landing on KC.

The median sale price skyrockets by an impressive 15.6%, reaching a staggering $630,000.

It may make sense to "overpay" for a property that won't cash flow initially if you know that the value of that property will skyrocket in a couple years (say, because Amazon is building its new headquarters a bus stop away, or you're a geologist who knows there's probably oil under that grass).

It was killer to begin with and I’ve been grateful for the 4% annual increase she does while prices sky rocket all around us. 

We've been looking for over a year on Keowee and it is just sky rocketing.