Seems like there's a trend moving in that direction.

Of course this is extreme, well it IS Seattle after all, but make sure you don't let your cities follow that trend.

We are seeing investors starting to unload their portfolios... when the bigger investors who've been in 15+ years start selling off that might be an indicator :) Nobody can time a market but take a look at potential growth trends and rentals in your area.

If I see it is an upward moving area and I can be a trend leader, I'm going to take advantage of that.

The NAR economist predicted that this trend will continue for the relatively near future.

I disagree that the market was "flat" for 10 years as stats say otherwise right now.However, Based on what we have rented in 2017 it shows we are trending upwards or flat again.

Not so much with say population growth, but Hamilton County's population is relatively flat now adays, and a large swath of Cincinnati is trending up.

You need to understand what each represents itself, but more so how they interact with each other and trend over time.

@Kishore Pathanjeli It gets crazy complicated when you try to mix shifting demographic trends with a decline in retail with commercial loan interest rates resetting with municiple solvency with...with...with...mixed across geographies to come to a single conclusion.  

An anticipated increase in single-family construction in 2017 will start to reverse this trend.