Crime (your #5), Employment centers, unemployment levels, population trend, housing availability and affordability... all those are on my list.  

Here in Florida, it has been a trend for brokers/agents to get on all the wholesalers' buyers lists and then they just add anywhere from 3% to $10k on top of the deal and send out to their own clients, adding zero value to the deal.

Like some of the others have stated above we are in an upward trend and the newbies are coming out of the wood work and it's not just on BP.  

Rental demand is strong, and values have trended up since purchase in 2009 (moved in to a new home in 2012 and started renting).  

Of course I also see the trend of more and more people wanting to stay at home and just hire care to come to them.

Sure, there are some metropolitan areas where prices are higher....but the trend is younger folks want to live downtown, not in the suburbs.  

Savvy buyers understand that this trend could continue.

I’m helping out a friend who lives in Seattle and is looking at trends in the area and is interested specifically in working with a realtor familiar in the area.

I've noticed the Shaw and Tower Grove area building up so I'm hoping to use those trends for improving the property I manage and a future investment. 

Hi All,I'd be curious for people's feedback regarding acceptable cash flow on a single family home in the Denver/Fort Collins area, given that our home values are generally trending upwards and on the higher side.