Other key economic indicators are in play when assessing viability of a market, and these are highlighted in a collaborative annual report done by PricewaterhouseCoopers & Urban Land Institute titled Emerging Trends in Real Estate.These two leading real estate research sources use criteria — such as population, size & growth, development opportunities, investment capital inflow, and transaction volume to define viability of U.S.

Rents here don't move as much as the housing market and it takes longer for the trends to show.But for comparison, the sales price for small residential properties is up around 9% over the last year.

Bigger Pockets just posted an article 2 days ago indicating Denver as one of the top 10 trending locations.

I do feel like I have seen a trend that the mostly rented areas tend to have lower median home value - but I am curious if for renting purposes - though home values are less - it is better to choose such areas as it seems to attract more renters as opposed to the areas which are mainly homeowner occupied? 

For Philly, I use CityData as an overlay to see what each area trend looks like.

This led to trends, such as putting off marriage, waiting to have children/having fewer children, and renting instead of buying.

Holiday Season FraudI won’t cover all seven fraud trends in this one article, but ‘tis the season, so I will cover holiday season fraud.

Just wanted to know if self-showings are the trend or popular way of showing rental properties now?

So you have this downward trend, except that maybe 1000 customers is your limit, and to serve 1001 customers you need a second filter system which costs another $500k/month to operate, so now your cost per month for 1001 customers is $.25/gallon - not as much as when you were serving one person, but more than serving 1000k people.

I was wondering if there were any commercial investors in the area that would be willing to talk with me about what they are seeing in terms of market trends, expectations for 2021, and just get to know one another in general.