Real Estate Investment Market Research

Begin your real estate market research with the U.S. Census information about a city. You want to invest in a city that is growing, especially if you are investing in income properties. It’s easier to do this now, with all the information available on your pc. Just go to the official U.S. Census site here: www.census.gov.

If you contact the chamber of commerce, or the local department of economic development, they may have a packet of statisics they can send you too, showing population figures, employment mix, and even more. These are a couple of the statistical tools and information that can help, but one of the easiest and most useful research tools, is talking to people who actually live there.

Talking is a great way to research an area you are not familiar with at all. I once called the Chamber of Commerce office of Deming, NM. In the course of our conversation, the chairman casually commented that the city was using up water quicker than the aquifer was being replenished. I also learned that they had no back-up plan in place. That was enough to scratch Deming off the list.

When you want to know more about a town, simply pick up the phone. Use any excuse to call anyone from a real estate agent to a resident who lives there. Ask questions about crime, whether the local government welcomes new businesses or housing, what the weather is like there. Are houses sitting for sale for a long time, or do they go fast? Where are the good or bad areas in the town? What are the good or bad things about the town that a new person should be aware of before living there?

Prior to moving to Tucson, AZ, part of our research was to call people in potential towns to see if they owned a snow shovel. If they did, we crossed that one off of our list. Two different places can both get 30 inches of snow per year, but in one area it stays all winter, and in another it melts by noon. Our snow shovel question told us the truth behind the statistics given to us.

That was just a personal thing with us, of course, but talking to people can tell you things that are more directly related to investing. In fact, a good local bar can be a great place to do your research once you are in a town. Patrons will tell you what big employers are about to move in or out of the town, how fast homes are selling, whether there are gangs, and much more items of interest.

Ask which areas are improving, and which are not. Listen for stories about noisy or animal-infested areas. This kind of information is important, but hard to get from the raw data. Of course, people do sometimes exaggerate, so try to verify what you hear. Still, talking to people can be a great way to do real estate market research.

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