From there, you narrow the search to the outlying areas around good districts to find less inflated properties that will benefit from path of progress.

The current housing market does make me a bit nervous as most areas seem super inflated in price.

With our current president and politics, push for inflation and raising taxes, the housing market will continue until there is an eventual correction.

I believe every investment property must meet the following three criteria.Sustained profitability - The property must generate a positive cash flow today and into the foreseeable future, in good times and bad.Appreciating - Appreciating at or above the inflation rate.

As an architect I start seeing projects stall since developers didn’t expected to fund the huge price increases of commodities due to shortages inflation and covid. 

A bed, a sofa bed, or space for an inflatable bed. 

As most of you have probably seen, the Portland area market is HIGHLY inflated right now.

Just getting started with Real Estate. Looking at the local market and using some the tools to analyze properties it doesn’t seem to make sense where I currently live.
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That, plus inflation is pushing me to make a move quick with the money I have in savings which puts in a tricky situation.My question is, where could I park my savings temporarily to hedge against inflation (and possibly show returns) until I find the right property to buy.

My base assumption is that we are going to see more inflation (currently 4.2% CPI offcially, but higher in reality) so fixed rate debt is a good thing to have.