There's also this one  https://floodfactor.com/ which goes beyond the FEMA mapping, and predicts flooding in the future.

If you are renting the property out you can kind of use sf rentals to predict what your rent couldn’t potentially be, but here’s the catch.  

That's hard to predict.

I know how much each apt can rent and I know each expense.Not only do I know that, I also can very much PREDICT the rental increases and the Expense increases.I have a saying, if you can PREDICT it, you can PROFIT from it.But if you can't predict it, you are shooting blindly in the dark.One of the things about NYC that I absolutely do is examine the major Real Estate Projects in a target area.If there are not at least 3 positive developments, for instance, in the Clinton Hill area where I invested in the above example, there were: 1) Barclay's Stadium and a LOT of other planned buildings called Atlantic Yards2) The rebuilding of the World Trade centers which would have thousands of high paid employees within reach of Clinton Hill3) The Navy Yard, which expanded with billions of investments, including Steiner Movie Studios and a whole bunch of other businessesPLUS A LOT MORE.Then there were the replacement of "poor" stores, like Dollar Stores and others of that nature with Artistic Coffee shops, eventually Starbucks opened.There are so many clues that help you that it is soooooo surprising how I keep hearing from people that you can't predict the future... and yet it slaps you in the face and they still think you can't predict it.I try to tell people that even a squirrel understands how to predict the future otherwise he would starve to death by the time the winter comes and he never buried his nuts where he can get to it!

Trying to predict when anything will go back down, if it ever does, is like trying to catch a falling knife.

As for the overall market I believe almost all experts are continuing to predict between 3-8% appreciate year over year.

While historical data does not necessarily predict the future, I think we can assume Columbus will appreciate better than Dayton.Dayton's Housing Market when population declines

How it currently sits they can't use a predictive dialer (that calls several #'s at once) instead they could only do "one to one" which is literally sitting there listening to the phone ring and voice mails which is pretty much useless.

I got spoiled to death with the equity booms in 2020-2021 but I could have never predicted that when I started in 2017.As long as you're buying right and each unit has enough cashflow to sustain itself, it's always good to own real estate.  

That will help determine whether or not your rent predictions are accurate or not.