Download or read book The Top 20 Best Places to Invest in Real Estate in America written by Peter Benda and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Top 20 Best Places to Invest in Real Estate in America covers 40 U.S. cities. For each city, there's a five-page investment profile with ratings, tables, and charts. Each profile draws comparisons to national benchmarks, local rent data, historical trends, inventory, and the stock market. Prices and rents, trend data, economics, and demographics make this book useful to investors and home-buyers alike. The book is updated quarterly. Unique to this volume are: the focus on investor grade property and the comparison of real estate investing to risks and returns in the stock market. Back-testing has shown our approach to be over 65% accurate in predicting price changes for 379 US markets. The author, Peter Benda, is president of PortReal. PortReal publishes investment ratings for investors of rental properties and residential housing. PortReal has been providing market research and data services to financial institutions and investors since 2005. Peter is himself a real estate investor with expertise in financial modeling and risk analysis. He earned an MBA in finance from Wharton, and has graduate and undergraduate degrees in engineering. He has 20 years experience as a management consultant and corporate executive, including work with Capital One Financial, FCNBD (JPMorgan Chase), and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.