Every Tom, Dick, and Harry, would be Real Estate Investor from around the country (maybe world-wide) is able to bid on-line, driving up the bidding to astronomical heights!

This site says they change $10 per comparative market analysis (CMA): https://hooquest.comAirDNAhttps://www.airdna.co/vacation-rental-dataSays it will help you find the best places to invest in vacation rentals (short term rentals), using interactive map and over 25 key performance metrics in over 80,000 cities worldwide.

It doesn't make the entire sector bad or wrong.

Minimum investments in DSTs are usually $100,000 if the investor is doing a 1031 exchange.Geographically diversified: DSTs can be found around the country allowing investors to invest different amounts in several different markets, helping to spread/reduce risk from investing for example in only one particular area, in one particular project, and in one particular sector of the real estate market.

Be it local real estate or stocks in a particular sector or company or a particular asset class vs trying to chase the herd and that too based on what we hear on BP.

KW wrote the books like Millionaire Real Estate Investor, FLIP about flipping homes by Rick Vallani who is Austin based and flipped over 1000 houses, and HOLD, but another long time KW agent who has over 100 rental homes.I've never seen stats on this, but I would guess with nearly 180,000 agents we have more investor agents than any other real estate company worldwide.   

Jude Children's Research Hospital and Nike's Worldwide Distribution center.  

The integration of AI into the real estate sector is altering the landscape in ways that were previously unimaginable.

REI Nation provides on-going property management services for each of those clients.Madison International Realty is an industry-leading liquidity solutions provider to existing real estate investors globally, in prime properties and portfolios in select sectors and major markets in the U.S., U.K. and Western Europe.

They key for me is to find one area- a few square miles but no more- and get to know everything in that sector.