Where We'd Invest in Real Estate Right Now (12 Markets)

**Dave Meyer** (0:00)
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What's going on, everyone? I am Dave Meyer, Chief Investment Officer at Bigger Pockets. Today's episode is our list of best investing markets. And this is always one of our most popular shows of the year. So we're back in June, 2026, with an update. This time, we're expanding the list to include not only long-term rentals, but also our favorite markets for short-term rentals, house flipping and house hacking too. And as always, for this topic, I'm joined by Bigger Pockets Podcast co-host, Henry Washington and Real Estate Rookie host, Ashley Kehr. Ashley, good to have you on the show. Thanks for being here.

**Ashley Kehr** (3:21)
Yeah. Thanks so much for having me again and giving me more homework with more cities to include this time.

**Dave Meyer** (3:26)
Every time you do this, we're just going to give you more and more work. Henry, how's it going, man? Good to see you.

**Henry Washington** (3:32)
What's up, buddy? Good to be here.

**Dave Meyer** (3:34)
All right. Well, let's get straight into it. You guys know the drill at this point. We've done this format a couple of times, but this time we're actually going to modify it a little bit. We're going to be going through different types of investment strategies and picking markets for each. So we're going to start with long-term rentals, then we'll go to short-term rentals, flips, and house hacking. For each strategy, Ashley, Henry and I are going to give us our favorite for that particular approach. So let's go long-term rentals first. Ashley, calling on you.

**Ashley Kehr** (4:06)
So I actually cheated on this one a little bit. I picked a Greenfield, Indiana, because it is a suburb rural market of Indianapolis, which I think it has a great long-term buy and hold market. So a little bit that I found out about this town in particular. So it's a smaller town. The median home price is $285,000.
Homes are selling in under 30 days, so I like having exit strategies, options available. Then it's only about a 30-minute drive to Indianapolis, which I like these smaller markets that are outside of the city, that make it more affordable for renters, and then it's also a landlord-friendly state.

**Dave Meyer** (4:52)
I like it. All those good things. Yeah, if you're just trying to draft off of Indianapolis, I like that strategy in general, just because such a hot market, such good Thai food as Henry can attest to. We had the best meal in Indianapolis.