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Investors looking to purchase properties in thriving housing markets would be wise to be wary of the state of the economy in the markets where they shop.

Investors looking for a bargain property would do wise to pay attention to the sticker price and not the hype.

Prior to these additions, the data available to investors remained limited to loan level data and loss data on 30-year, fixed-rate single-family loans.

A group of Citigroup Inc., investors recently filed a lawsuit against the bank, with the allegations that the bank failed to address problems related to toxic residential mortgage-backed securities.

The data, which examined 55 of the largest metro areas across the country to determine the best markets for single-family home investors looking at median price, average gross rental yields, year-over-year job growth, and home affordability, showed that the top investment market is Charlotte, North Carolina due to its strong job growth.

In a nationwide survey of real estate investors bidding on single-family residential properties offered for auction during the third quarter of 2015, online real estate marketplace Auction.com found that flipping is still the preferred strategy over hold-to-rent.

Rental rates and income yields continue to rise in the single-family rental market, affecting how real estate investors target purchase opportunities and how much landlords make from these properties.

Emerging real estates markets offer investors promising returns on increasing home prices, as foreclosure housing opportunities are nearly non-existent.

When the panel of four experts debated whether the current single-family rental market is a "bubble" or is here to stay and the question was put to them by Tim Herriage, the lab's director, three of the four experts answered that it was here to stay. That is, three out of four experts believe that investors will be able to sustain the single-family rental market enough to avoid a housing crisis like the one in 2008.

There is a housing shift occurring in the investment market. During the housing crash, big investors stocked up on thousands of foreclosed properties for single family rentals with intentions of selling them when home prices recovered. But they didn’t.