Welcome to passive real estate investing, the show where busy people like you learn how to build substantial passive income while creating wealth for the long term.

And now here's your host, Marco Santorelli.

Hello, my friends, and welcome to another episode of Ask Marco,

where I answer your investing related questions.

Today's question comes from Ryan.

He says, hey Marco, I have been listening to your

podcast for a few months. What? That's all? I'm only kidding. When you mention

you're tracking over 400 real estate markets, Is that available on your site? What you

said in your Kansas City market spotlight about being a city in the top 100 is a

good thing. How do you find that data? Okay, so a couple questions here and I think it's centered around finding or asking the question where are the hot markets?

So my first comment is what is a quote unquote hot market.

Sometimes people ask this question not only to me, but just openly everywhere,

whether it be in the media or online.

And people ask, where are the hot markets?

What is a hot market?

Been asked to write articles about hot markets.

You know, where are or what are the hot markets?

The question is, is how are you defining a hot market?

Hot in what sense in terms of a price appreciation,

historic or current, what is the trend? Is there a certain percentage of year

over year price increase? Does Hot mean that there's a high level of investor

interest? Does Hot mean that it's just a great cash flow market and people are very interested in it and it doesn't necessarily mean that it's appreciating in double digit territory year over year.

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