For appreciation, check out Columbus—it's been booming with tech giants like Intel, Meta, Amazon, and Google driving up property values and job opportunities.

Richie,Full disclosure, I do not own property in Athens but think it is a booming area.

They ended up bankrupt and foreclosed on and I moved somewhere else. 14 years later my lot in a town where building had boomed, housing prices were up about 40% and there was solid population growth had gone from being worth $28,500 to being sold for $19,000.

Here in the Southwest, agriculture and military are big, but there's a booming manufacturing sector too!

The pandemic spurred a multifamily construction boom (condos, apartments, townhomes etc.).

And then you had a massive boom in building so even when covid was over, you had too much inventory and less people with all that money.

Starting to see a lot of pent up demand that will likely boom when rates finally come down

There are not enough hotels and bed and breakfast spaces for all these people, so private bnb rentals (such as Airbnb, Vrbo, etc.) are booming in Salem.

Purchase price: $250,000 Sale price: $349,900 We provided a loan for a new construction project in Palm Bay, FL, with one of the biggest build booms.

A linear market is always the best if you don't want to invest in places that have larger boom/bust cycles.