RealixData actively scans 100 cities across 34 states every 12 hours to surface the strongest rental deals for our Top Deals page. Right now our scanner is tracking 50 live deals across these markets. These aren't random markets — each was selected because the underlying math consistently works for buy-and-hold investors: favorable price-to-rent ratios, landlord-friendly laws, stable or growing population, and enough transaction volume to keep the data honest.
If you search a property outside these markets, RealixData still runs a full analysis on demand — the Top Deals scan just prioritizes the markets below for automated ranking and rotates through them daily so every market gets fresh attention.
The 34 States We Actively Monitor
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Showing all 100 markets across 34 states
Alabama (AL) · 4 cities
Arizona (AZ) · 3 cities
Arkansas (AR) · 1 city
Colorado (CO) · 2 cities
Connecticut (CT) · 1 city
Delaware (DE) · 1 city
Florida (FL) · 11 cities
Georgia (GA) · 5 cities
Illinois (IL) · 3 cities
Indiana (IN) · 3 cities
Iowa (IA) · 1 city
Kansas (KS) · 1 city
Kentucky (KY) · 2 cities
Louisiana (LA) · 3 cities
Maryland (MD) · 1 city
Michigan (MI) · 3 cities
Minnesota (MN) · 1 city
Mississippi (MS) · 1 city
Missouri (MO) · 3 cities
Nebraska (NE) · 2 cities
Nevada (NV) · 2 cities
New Jersey (NJ) · 1 city
New Mexico (NM) · 1 city
New York (NY) · 3 cities
North Carolina (NC) · 6 cities
Ohio (OH) · 7 cities
Oklahoma (OK) · 2 cities
Pennsylvania (PA) · 4 cities
South Carolina (SC) · 4 cities
Tennessee (TN) · 5 cities
Texas (TX) · 9 cities
Utah (UT) · 1 city
Virginia (VA) · 2 cities
Wisconsin (WI) · 1 city
Why These 100 Cities?
Not every US city produces investable deals. Some markets look great on paper but collapse on cash flow — think San Francisco or Seattle, where a $900k single-family home might rent for $3,200/month (a catastrophic 0.35% rent-to-price ratio). We focus on the markets where the numbers actually close.
Every market in our rotation satisfies at least three of the following five criteria:
1. Healthy rent-to-price ratios (≥ 0.7%)
Markets where an average listing can realistically hit — or flirt with — the 1% rule.
2. Stable or growing population
We avoid markets in secular decline. Birmingham, Detroit, and Pittsburgh made the list because specific zip codes inside them are stabilizing or growing, even where the broader metro is flat.
3. Landlord-friendly state law
Eviction timelines under 90 days, no statewide rent control, and reasonable property tax regimes. This is why Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Arizona dominate the list.
4. Sufficient inventory & transaction volume
A market needs enough active listings for the deal scanner to find outliers. Tiny towns with 3 listings a month don't qualify.
5. Reliable rent comp data
Our multi-source rent pipeline (Zillow Rent Zestimate, zip-level comps, and description parsing) has to produce a defensible rent estimate. Markets with thin rental data are excluded.
What About Markets Not On This List?
You can still analyze any US property on RealixData. If you paste a Zillow URL, type in an address, or search a ZIP code that isn't in the rotation above, we pull the listing in real time and run the full analysis — cash flow, cap rate, deal score, BRRRR potential, all of it.
Our 100-market scan is simply how we pre-populate the Top Deals leaderboard. It's a curated view — not a cap on what you can investigate.
How Often Are These Markets Refreshed?
Every 12 hours. The background scanner fetches fresh listings from Zillow, re-prices each property with live rent comps and current interest rates, recomputes deal scores, and publishes the updated leaderboard. We rotate through the 100 markets daily so every market gets covered without ballooning API costs. Stale cache entries older than 7 days are automatically purged.
This means the Top Deals page you see today is not the same one you saw yesterday — new listings rotate in and stale ones drop off automatically.
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