With home prices skyrocketing across the country, finding a cash-flowing rental property may prove more challenging. The rising costs of owning the property are squeezing out more investors’ profits.
ATTOM Data Solutions, a real estate tracking firm, identified the places where landlords can still find income-producing properties. The research team looked at 8,841 U.S. ZIP codes to find the best rental properties with cash-producing opportunities.
Researchers found that buying the rental property is not always cost-effective. For more than half of the ZIP codes analyzed, purchasing a single-family rental property may lead to a negative net cash flow when purchasing a median-priced property with a 25 percent down payment that’s rented out at the median rental rate.
On the other hand, 834 other ZIP codes could find investors being able to buy a median-priced home as a rental and produce annual net cash flows of $5,000 or more, according to ATTOM Data Solutions. In another 48 ZIP codes, investors may even see potential annual net cash flows of $10,000 or more.
The ZIP codes offering some of the highest percent cash-on-cash return are:
74126: Tulsa, Okla.
63115: St. Louis
19103: Chester, Pa.
48234: Detroit
08104: Camden, N.J.
Read more about the methodology used
at ATTOM Data Solutions.
Source: ATTOM Data Solutions
