The Best Markets to Buy Rental Properties Right Now (2025)

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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New to real estate investing? Stuck in an area with expensive housing prices or not-so-landlord-friendly laws but want to buy real estate? We’ve got you covered. We’re sharing our favorite 2025 real estate markets for rental property investing, many of which are so affordable even a real estate rookie will have no trouble buying in. But these aren’t just cheap markets; they all have strong fundamentals that drive appreciation and rising rents. We brought the market-picking experts, Ashley Kehr and Henry Washington, back to the show to share their picks and see how they compare to Dave’s. We’ve got “sleeper” markets that are growing but fly under the radar, a new Midwest manufacturing hub that will soon become one of America’s most prized chip-building markets, and the next boom city with great jobs and even better cash flow. Then, we’ll share bonus affordable markets for those who don’t have much money to start. Got some more cash saved and looking to buy in a big city with big upside potential? We’re listing the three big cities we’d happily call home and invest in, with phenomenal housing market metrics and much more affordable prices than New York, Seattle, and the other “big” real estate markets. In This Episode We Cover: The best rental property markets of 2025 that sport appreciation, cash flow, and affordable prices Why Henry thinks this “unsexy sleeper” market could be a phenomenal place to buy The chip-manufacturing Midwest market that could see massive growth One market with a booming economy but still very affordable home prices The “big” cities we’d buy in that are poised for growth and home price appreciation How to find the perfect market for YOU to invest in (free data on HUNDREDS of markets) And So Much More! Links from the Show Join BiggerPockets for FREE Let Us Know What You Thought of the Show! Ask Your Question on the BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets YouTube Free Market Data Ashley’s Free Market Worksheet Join the Future of Real Estate Investing with Fundrise Grab Dave’s Book, “Real Estate by the Numbers” Find an Investor-Friendly Agent in Your Area Real Estate Podcast 1007 - Where We’d Invest in Real Estate in 2024 if We Were Starting from Scratch w/Ashley Kehr and Henry Washington Connect with Ashley Connect with Henry Connect with Dave (00:00) Intro (04:18) Best “Sleeper” Markets (09:29) The Next Tech Market (14:28) Midwest Boom Market (18:56) Most Affordable Markets (21:46) Best Big Cities to Invest In (27:04) How to Find YOUR Market Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1074 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	These are the best markets to buy rental properties right now.
0:04.0	You may be hearing that cash flow has dried up, but it is still alive and well in 2025 if you know where to look.
0:10.9	Today, we'll reveal three of our favorite markets for anyone looking to progress towards financial freedom through real estate,
0:17.1	plus a few bonus markets you really need to know about.
0:29.7	What's up, everyone? It's Dave Meyer back with another episode of the Bigger Pockets podcast, and we've got a fun one today that many of you keep requesting for us to repeat.
0:35.8	We actually did a show just like this back in August,
0:38.0	one of the most popular ones we did last year. It featured Ashley Care and Henry Washington.
0:43.1	We each picked our on markets. So to do the repeat of this episode, I've invited Ashley and
0:48.3	Henry back again. Ashley, good to see you. Yes, thanks so much for having me.
0:53.0	And fresh off your home city of Buffalo being
0:56.8	named the hottest housing market for Zillow in 2025. So second year running. I know. We're not
1:02.6	letting you pick it because it's too obvious right now. So we're going to, we're going to handicap you
1:06.3	a little bit. And Henry, we already know you pick like the best market of the last 10 years. So
1:10.8	and live in it in North Carolina. So we're also already know you picked like the best market of the last 10 years. And live in it in
1:12.2	North Carolina. So we're also not letting you pick that one. Fair enough. Fair enough. So we did this
1:17.2	show back in August of 2024. You can go check that out. In that show, we had a data download that
1:23.6	accompanied the show and the research that Ashley Henry and I did. And we've done the same thing.
1:28.7	You can go to biggerpockets.com slash resources and download data for more than 300 markets in the
1:35.4	United States. It has stuff like rent to price ratio, population growth, basically all the stuff
1:40.0	that we're going to be talking about today. You can grab that for free, so go check that out.
1:44.6	In today's episode, we're going to pick each of our favorite markets, so I'm eager to hear
1:48.1	what you guys have. And then at the end, we're going to do two quick bonus rounds, one for the
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