Fundamentals change neighborhood to neighborhood (i.e. appreciation potential), inventory/absorption issues may exist, rogue city council members and/or registered community organizations can make neighborhoods less appealing with little oversight which impacts value and marketability.

Do you have a go-to process for researching comparable properties or absorption rates?

And, that this return to office will manifest itself first in suburban areas with relatively less competition and shorter commutes for local workers, and that re-absorption of inventory will take a lot of time in urban areas with tons of vacancies.

And anytime you have that cheap of lots that are buildable you can get a building boom that will far surpass normal absorption liike what we are seeing now or saw what 3 years ago  or so.. builders / GCs taking on 50 jobs at once with no hope of ever being able to deliver simply not enough subs and such to keep up.  

Agents may also have macro data on historical data, local median sale prices, absorption rate, etc to help with your analyses and projections.Networking/build a team: Attend local meetups, virtual meetups and stay active on forums like this.A lot of this will be done in front of a PC unfortunately but if you cut out the noise, you'll be able to maximize your time.Lastly, something that has helped me tremendously with respect to focus and improving efficiency is the pommodor technique. 

I think it will meet long-term demand since new construction starts in the past 1-3 years have dropped off a cliff, so new supply coming onto the market from 2025-2028 will be significantly lower and allow for absorption of everything and most likely we'll start to see organic rent growth again in the 2-8% range as we saw in 2016-2020.

The neighborhood has some of the most prohibitive zoning and strong demand, exactly the combination that leads to good absorption.

.)- Average days on market- Absorption rate- Historical data on rents and sale prices in the area- Population growth- Main economic drivers (industries, individual companies, etc.)- Crime stats... if you know specific zip codes/submarkets that you'd like to target, the best data will come from local precincts. - and more..I'd recommend remaining active not only here on BiggerPockets, but in other valuable RE investment networks that you can find - i.e. local meetups (meetup.com, eventbrite, BP local events). 

Austin is still in the top 3 markets for apartment absorption rate, it's just that we added 60,000 new units in 2 years, so it will take a few years to get the supply and demand balance in check.

Also please consider: location, local market and absorption rate, vacancy rates, etc.