Dave:
We are in a housing correction, at least on a national level, but everyone knows real estate and real estate investing are local. What happens in one market can be totally different from what happens in other markets. Where BRRRR works may not be great for short-term rental investing, where short-term rental investing works might not be great for flipping. It all comes down to what you’re trying to accomplish and what’s happening on the ground in your individual market. In today’s episode, we’re going deep into the dramatic regional differences we’re seeing in the housing market across the US and how you can plan your own investing accordingly.
Hey everyone, welcome to On the Market. Thank you all so much for being here. I’m Dave Meyer, and today sort of going back to my roots, this is one of my favorite things to study and talk about real estate markets. We’re going to talk about the regional trends that we’re seeing the opportunities to be had and the risks you probably want to avoid. You might already know this, but there isn’t really such thing as unquote the real estate market on the show. We cover the national market a lot because it’s helpful to understand some big macro trends, but what really matters most to your actual portfolios, to the profits that you’re actually generating is what’s happening on the ground in your local market. And of course, we cannot cover every market in the US and today’s show alone, but in this episode we are going to do a deep dive into housing prices, into different regions, different states, different cities across the US, and help interpret what it all means.
We’ll start with just talking about what has been going on in 2025 and what we know about regional markets as of today in October, 2025. Then we’re going to talk about this sort of interesting and fascinating paradox that’s going on in the investing climate right now. Next, we’ll talk about rent growth and how regional variances…