:-(Lies, damn lies, & statistics.  ;-)Unemployment numbers (full employment) are actually an indication that we're likely headed for a recession. 

The statistic is that 90% of the cars on American roads today are financed.

Generally if you look for properties in locations with stronger macro statistics you will see that rents and price points tend to diverge from each other.

Hi Les,The forecast for the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Statistical Area is optimistic, predicting a growth rate that gradually increases throughout the year.

There are statistics out there that you can analyze in order to see some things such as:Growth rate of the city: A decline in growth is a bad sign for the town.

RE prices do not peak in June/July as they usually do- As vacancies pile up *some* landlords result in panic selling June/July, but not enough to be statistically relevant (at least in my own market in AZ).

At Mynd Management, we use our own proprietary data to provide owners with the best market statistics for real estate investors in all of our 19 markets and offer all of our owners their own online rental collection platform. 

I think real estate like anything runs in Cycles statistically I have always learned that real estate runs in a seven-year cycle it goes up it goes down and then it goes sideways.There's a lot of reasons obviously why the market is what it is today and there's a lot of economic emotional and influential drivers that are keeping what we are seeing at this current time a but just like the way it is today it will change either for the better or for the worse and there's two things I can guaranteeThe market will go up and the market will crash at some point in the future.

Interesting statistics

However, looking back at the 10 years I've worked since then, it is obvious that I am making far more money specifically due to the things I learned in finance, statistics, economics, etc.