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I have a question that is tangentially related to the OP, but not based on the irrationality of the housing market. What I want to know is: given the way things are today, how do you identify and locate neighbourhoods, towns, and cities where housing will appreciate in value the most? IOW, what is the data you need to make a good "buy low, sell high" decision?

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Demand: Interest rates(good luck predicting that) Median income(predictable) School districts (good schools attract people who care about that... as you can imagine that's a spiral one way or the other) Supply: Current inventory Potential inventory

One more factor in the demand side: population. IMO it is hard to predict.

For a given area, population isn't really a demand side thing - it's the intersection of demand and supply.

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