The monthly pace of activity will ebb and flow as the recovery continues, but expect housing starts to remain in an upward trend.

Unless you have a specific project in mind for looking at historical Federal Tax Lien trends from the 1970's, these are not going to be very useful for you if you are trying to wholesale or invest.It may be a good idea to call Tarrant County's Recorder's office and see if you can get recently-filed Tax Liens, Death Certificates, Divorce Judgments, etc and see what they can do.

You can also request the T3 for the most recent trends in income, but still, use the t12 for expenses.

I believe we are seeing a change in the decades old global trend of moving to bigger cities.

You can also run a direct capitalization method by figuring out your proforma rents and NOI and dividing by the trending cap rate for that neighborhood/asset class.

You'll want to find an investor focused realtor/broker - not a residential/general one - who can lead you through rent demand and prices, population trends and more. 

It is not just cost it is knowing subs that are quality and will know code approval porces.Please talk with a local mid size builders for local trends.

The heavy handed government covid responses screwing over many landlords has contributed to this trend.

@Stephen Colaco The trends in some of the tertiary markets are more favorable to me.

But honestly once rates on duplexes keep going up I expect SFH's to follow right behind in the same trend.