Sales comps will take into consideration market trends/fluctuations.

Interesting article about population trends.

My 2 cents: correction around 2018 based on historical trends and couple years removed from Presidential election.

Great plan, concur with all the above - quite possible in theory, but may vary hugely according to markets and unexpected trends/events.I'd run the financial expansion plans carefully - there are a lot of assumptions thrown in there that would require re-confirming or re-adjusting after the first few properties are purchased - make sure you have a safety buffer, as things tend to slide down-hill fast when you're leveraged and cannot afford repayments.Best of luck!

I came across this interesting article in the Financial Times recently.

The basic premise of the article is while home ownership is falling among US citizens, among immigrant families, the rate is high and has been i...

That being said, real estate is definitely trending upward.

If the neighborhood is on the decline, if the largest neighborhood employer is leaving, if the trend has moved on ... all of these things can affect your ability to sell or lease a property, commercial or residential.

as Peter Lynch used to say, "the trend is your friend."

I like zillow for looking at prices. i like craigslist to see what people in the area are looking for. i like using the county website for seeing who owns each property, what they paid, etc. to determine what job trends are I'll read the news to see if companies are coming or going. but that's for the places I already picked to focus on. for general overviews on how to pick an investing location, i'm not sure. maybe forbes or realtor.com have statistics pages that say "this area is expected to increase by x%"

I was relying on city-data to gather age demographics and looked at Genworth to find the different markets that has positive trends of ALF care costs.