13 Real Estate "Hotspots" to Invest In (2025 Update)

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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When you look at the “Hottest Real Estate Markets” lists from major publications, they often miss many crucial factors that truly make a market worth investing in. So, after getting tired of seeing the same cities repeatedly, we decided to make our own “Real Estate Hotspots” list, touching on the areas that are PRIMED for growth with plenty of appreciation and cash flow potential for landlords. We’re sharing all thirteen cities today! Our two favorite market pickers, Kathy Fettke and Austin Wolff, are back on the show to share their opinions on these top markets. Austin has spent hours and hours compiling this list, looking at not just population growth but income growth, job growth, GDP per capita, and more leading indicators that point to great real estate investing markets. Some of the top picks on this list truly surprised us, but the data points to these thirteen cities as some of the best places to buy in 2025. We’ll also talk about the overrated markets that may be past their prime and some nearby options that could make solid real estate investments for the long term! In This Episode We Cover The thirteen real estate investing “hotspots” for 2025 that investors should pay attention to A very surprising top city that seems to keep on growing EVEN after some solid appreciation The “satellite cities” that siphon off big city growth for a fraction of the cost Cash flow hotspots that still boast affordable prices with solid rent-to-price ratios The one Texas city that many investors forget about but is still growing fast (definitely not Austin) Cities that DIDN’T make the list and are constantly overhyped by the media And So Much More! Links from the Show Join the Future of Real Estate Investing with Fundrise Join BiggerPockets for FREE Find an Investor-Friendly Agent in Your Area Dave's BiggerPockets Profile Kathy's BiggerPockets Profile Deal Finder Market Finder 13 Real Estate Hot Spots You Won’t Want to Miss Next Year Austin's BiggerPockets Profile Analyze Real Estate Like the Pros with “Real Estate by the Numbers” Jump to topic: (00:00) Intro (03:23) Real Estate “Hotspots” (08:26) Phoenix, Arizona (13:39) Colorado Springs, Colorado (17:03) Cash Flow Hotspots (22:05) Top 5 Cities (24:07) Overrated Cities Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/on-the-market-270 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whenever I see one of those lists that claim they know the best cities to invest in, I get a little bit annoyed.
0:07.1	I definitely click on the article first, read every single word of it, but then I get a little bit annoyed because they always have the same cities over and over again.
0:15.9	And moreover, they never actually tell you how they arrived at the list of cities that they put on this list in the first place.
0:22.9	But today, we're pulling back the curtain on one of Bigger Pocket's latest lists of hotspots.
0:33.0	Hey, everyone, it's Dave.
0:34.5	Welcome to On the Market, the news and economic show for informed
0:38.8	real estate investors. Today, to go over our list, I'm joined by my friend and a market
0:44.5	selection guru. I don't want to use the guru. That's like a bad word in real estate.
0:50.0	A great market picker, Kathy Fecky. Thanks for joining us, Kathy. Oh, thanks for not calling me a guru.
0:57.1	Although I'm flattered.
0:58.1	You call me a goddess or something.
0:59.5	Yes, a market selection goddess is exactly what I was going for.
1:05.7	Kathy, how long have you been picking real estate markets for?
1:10.3	I would say I started around 2004, you know, going outside my backyard and just kind of nerded out on it.
1:17.2	I just love it.
1:18.3	All right.
1:18.7	So you've been doing this for 20 years.
1:20.1	We have the right person to join us.
1:22.2	And we also have Bigger Pockets own Austin Wolf joining us today, who put together his list of
1:29.1	13 real estate hotspots that he thinks will have the most growth potential for 2025 and
1:36.4	beyond. And just so you know, these aren't all going to be markets that you're used to hearing
1:40.1	about. A couple of them might be similar to ones you have, but I promise you will hear
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