Price vs taxes/insurance vs rents attainable ?

It makes sense that it's local because the banks who do construction will do it if the title company will insure it, but for lien rights reasons they will not. 

Aim for a live-in flip, house hack, or combination strategy.

Now, they still could pencil... but you have to be more creative and have more of a value add strategy- such as forced appreciation, adding a unit, adding a level, MTR/STR, etc

While still technically in slight seller’s market territory, inventory is well above extreme lows seen in recent years when inventory fell below 1 month for a sustained period.Here are the full stats for Austin and the greater metro:A 30-year fixed mortgage is sitting around 7.3% interest, which is the highest it has been in 2024 thus far:In addition to interest rates increasing the cost of real estate ownership, buyers are facing increased insurance premiums, maintenance costs, and rising property taxes.

Feel free to shoot me a PM if you'd like to chat about your strategy. 

*Most* of the time, especially early in your investing, you can book enough losses to offset income between improvements, depreciation, taxes, insurance, mortgage interest, vacancies.

A common strategy here would be to move out of the townhome -> rent the townhome out -> house-hack and live in a new property with low down payment.

Lessons learned, how did you find your builder, what has been your strategy you implemented and how did it turn out? 

Im based in the UK - hope that is OK.I am primarily looking for info on deal calculation and also what I need to have inplace / ways / strategies to raise investment capital.