House Canary travels west to scout single-family investment properties offering investors good returns combined with lower home prices. : House Canary, a national data analytics real estate company recently checked out several Mountain states in the west for single-family rental investors. “We can see when we dive into the Mountain West region of the country, returns tend to be higher where prices are relatively low. There are also ripple effects spreading to nearby markets from hot real estate areas exploding with buyer interest like Denver.” said Alex Villacorta, executive vice president of analytics at House Canary.