I would love to start analyzing properties/areas in that region now to gain a better sense of what i'll be up against.

There are banks that will lend money on land but they will be the smaller, regional or community types of banks.  

She stressed that occupancy and retention were way down and that shadows of corporate and investors and the like were beginning to loom, and that the regional manager was going to start a special for the month.

Im very ambitious was a regional phi theta kappa vice president for 2 years of college with a 3.85gpa and am lucky to be able to have access to many who know all types of construction, flooring plumbing roofing...etc...

As an example, we bought our houses in the $80k range in San Angelo, and then they hit oil in the region.

I choose not to go to Law School and instead have been working at a regional bank in the commercial loan documentation unit for about four years.

My experience with commercial loan loans through regional banks is that they can have different requirements.

As someone who grew up in Nova Scotia, I love Atlantic Canada and want to build my business across the region, not just in my current city.

Holding a license is public record, so you can somehow figure out how to get all the information from the DBPR, and then do an email campaign to Realtors in whatever region you're working at the time. 

The best overview I have seen of a market research comes from A triangle that showed country, region, state, city, street.