Investor dashboards · September 2026 data
Investor dashboards for U.S. housing markets
Six lenses on 950 U.S. metros, built from cited public data — gross rental yield, value vs long-run trend, momentum, supply risk, long-run appreciation, and a fully interactive screener. Updated monthly; scores are data-derived opinions, not investment advice.
What does the investor dashboard suite show?
Six lenses on 950 U.S. metros, built from cited public data — gross rental yield, value vs long-run trend, momentum, supply risk, long-run appreciation, and a fully interactive screener. Updated monthly; scores are data-derived opinions, not investment advice.
Cash-flow markets
The 50 highest gross-rental-yield metros — market rent against the median list price.
Open DashboardUndervalued & overvalued
Metros priced furthest below (and above) their own long-run price trend and local incomes.
Open DashboardMomentum & cooling
The metros heating up fastest — and the ones cooling hardest on inventory and price cuts.
Open DashboardSupply & correction watch
Inventory versus June 2019: where supply has surged past pre-pandemic levels, and where it never rebuilt.
Open DashboardAppreciation leaders
House-price-index leaders and laggards over 1, 5 and 10 years.
Open DashboardMarket screener
Filter and sort all 932 scored metros by state, price, yield and Investor Score — interactive.
Open DashboardCompare two metros
Pick any two markets for a side-by-side of price, pace, yield, score and outlook — with plain-English verdicts.
Open DashboardMonthly market movers
This month's biggest moves — price jumps and drops, inventory swings and momentum reversals.
Open DashboardRental deal analyzer
Run any rental deal — cash flow, cap rate, cash-on-cash, DSCR — with real local defaults for every metro, plus a BRRRR mode.
OpenScreen all 933 scored metros yourself — filter by state, price, yield and score
Best places to buy rental property
137 large metros ranked on rent-to-price yield and FHFA price growth, with a cash-flow test at today’s mortgage rate.
Read 2026 rankingBest appreciation markets
The 25 hardest-compounding metros of the last five years, by long-run house-price growth.
Read 2026 rankingBest markets for a first rental
The cash needed for rent to cover the mortgage and property tax, in metros with 500+ active listings.
Read Price rankingWhere home prices are falling
The 50 markets with the largest year-over-year drop in median listing price, with price-cut share and inventory.
Read Affordability rankingIncome needed to buy a home
Household income needed for the median listing at today's 30-year rate with 20% down, by market.
Read Affordability rankingPrice-to-income ratio by market
Median listing price divided by median household income, highest and lowest markets.
Read Market conditionsBuyer's vs seller's market by metro
Rule-based labels from days on market, sale-to-list, price cuts and pending ratio, with the rule published on the page.
Read Supply statisticsInventory above 2019 levels
Metros where active listings exceed the same month in 2019, paired with price-cut share. Article twin of supply risk.
Read ListicleCheapest places to buy a house
Metros under $250,000 median list price, with a large-metro cut and links into each market page.
Read ListicleBest places to invest in real estate
Large metros ranked by Investor Score, with a 1M+ metro cut and the lowest scorers.
Read ListicleMost expensive places to buy a house
The 25 metros with the highest median list prices, a 1M+ metro cut and resort ZIP/county markets.
ReadEvery metric on this page, painted across the U.S. map
Every dashboard is built from the same public government and industry records that power our 950 metro market pages: listing data (September 2026), closed sales, a long-run house price index, published fair market rents, demographics and the national mortgage-rate survey. The composite Investor Score behind the trending index and the screener is a documented percentile blend — see the full methodology.