As you said new construction in West SC has grown and both the mid lands and Charleston have good cap rates as of now but are we looking at a saturated market?

Been investing in a smaller town and just moved back to the Dallas/Fort Worth market.

Based on the last few months, it feels like the housing market here is over priced and hyped with investors buying up properties ...

I had a home there and moved back to Texas and it sat on the market for a year before selling, mainly because the market is saturated with homes for sale there.

Are there any indicators that would forecast saturation?

The JT, Yucca Valley, Landers and 29 Palms areas are great to have a STR, the market is pretty saturated, so the more unique the property is and the better that it is furnished, laid out etc. will provide the experience even better.

There are a lot of new condo's coming up with more amenities that have saturated the market.This is more about changing the contract to say a Buyer's agent fee of 2%, as a realtor, you still want to make the $4-4500 right... you won't just ignore a property. 

The desert is saturated for STR.

The STR market is pretty saturated where I bought my 2 so I am holding off on any more there.

However for the pure ‘saturation’ point of how many flippers etc are there, I don’t invest there.

The residential market is saturated and MF is trading at ridiculously low cap rates.