Des Moines, IA.
FUNNEL2.30Limited coverage“Microsoft's $1B+ data center campus is already operational with 500+ jobs, joined by Google's $600M facility and Meta's $1B campus — all live and drawing specialized workers into Des Moines right now.”
Why This Market Fits
Des Moines, IA is in our pipeline — signals are early. Announcements without enough confirmation, or scale that doesn't justify near-term repricing.
Cap Rate Signals tracks confirmed corporate investment about to move workers into a metro before real estate pricing has adjusted. Our model flags Des Moines, IA as FUNNEL — monitor for qualifying milestones.
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Below: 8 catalyst writeups, and full source chronology.
This is the part subscribers come for. It's where you go from “Des Moines looks interesting” to “buy these blocks, not those.”
Founder's year — 9 of 10 seats remain
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The Numbers
Verify · Single-family metrics, hand-populated first-pass. Multi-plex rows render only when sourced for this metro.
What's not here, and why
- No catalyst stack. No investment in Des Moines currently meets our editorial bar (≥$250M and ≥500 jobs in a forward-repricing thesis). When one lands, it gets a full write-up here.
- No submarket picks. Picks are anchored to a thesis — proximity to a specific catalyst node, school-district cohort, supply pressure. Without a thesis to score against, picks would be generic real-estate advice, not Cap Rate Signals.
- No underwritten listings. Listings are modeled to the local thesis (cap rates, basis vs. submarket comps, exit assumptions). No thesis means no underwriting.