Real estate market analysis tools are essential for crafting effective investment strategies. CENSAI offers solutions for exploring, tracking, and capitalizing on real estate opportunities.
Real estate investment solutions
Real estate market projections
CENSAI tracks over 25 million annual moves made by consumers 18 and over. By observing current and historical population trends, CENSAI predicts inflows, outflows, and net migration up to four quarters into the future. CENSAI’s projections are updated quarterly so you benefit from the latest real estate market trends without having to wait years for fresh data.
Insights across all 50 states
- 34,000+ zip codes
- 3,100+ counties
- 900+ CBSAs
Look-alike markets for real estate investors
Want to explore emerging real estate markets? CENSAI streamlines your search by identifying additional markets that meet your investment criteria. Whether you have a specific CBSA, county, or zip code in mind, CENSAI leverages its extensive real estate database to generate a list of locales that share similar housing market trends. Look-alikes can save valuable time in searching for opportunities to expand your portfolio.
How look-alikes are identified
- Current population
- Inflows over the last four quarters
- Net migration over the last four quarters
- Net migration over the last four years
- Average education
- Average urban density
- Median income
Advanced property search for investors
CENSAI’s property search database includes over 145,000 building addresses nationwide. Using our property search tool, you can unlock the investment potential of multifamily buildings and discover opportunities for rent escalation. CENSAI’s investment property analysis tool includes custom reports that support data-driven investment strategies.
Insights into multifamily properties
- Leasing trends
- Rental turnover
- Tenant demographics
- Building makeup and health
Investability for evaluating real estate opportunities
Is your target market primed for real estate investing? CENSAI’s investability index uses a scoring system to help you determine a market’s investability (or investment quality). Investability scores make it possible to gauge real estate prospects at a glance.
What goes into investability
- Population growth
- Income growth
- Vacancy rates
- Modeled rent rates
- Crime
Market affordability for real estate investing
CENSAI’s affordability index measures a market’s rent-to-income ratio, which is key for anticipating the rent growth of a given market. CENSAI displays affordability as user-friendly scores, which are updated quarterly and available for zip codes, counties, and CBSAs.
What goes into affordability
- Individual-level data
- Modeled income
- Modeled rent rates
Custom market reporting
CENSAI market reports let you track population trends in multiple geographies at once. You can also define your own market boundary to gather insights from specific geographies such as submarkets, neighborhoods, or larger regions that encompass several markets.
Custom reporting features
- Define a custom boundary using the drawing tool, then add it to your CENSAI market report.
- Select up to five predefined geographies, including zip codes, counties, CBSAs, or states.
- Combine multiple predefined geographies from different states into the same report.
- Filter data by age, income, education, households with children, and renters vs. homeowners.
