Austin is the best market for commercial real estate investing, according to a new survey from investment marketplace CrowdStreet. The Texas hotspot is followed by Raleigh-Durham, Nashville, Orlando and Seattle. 

The top-ranking places enjoy strong job and population growth, according to CrowdStreet, and tend to have major research universities, burgeoning tech sectors, and a vibrant cultural scene. And that helps those cities create "ecosystems that ultimately boost absorption rates, rent growth and the local economy," CrowdStreet notes.

"We take all property types into account since the deals on our platform cover private real estate opportunities in all multifamily and commercial real estate sectors. But to make the top 20, a market must consistently rank highly across multiple real estate classes," CrowdStreet's Chief Investment Officer Ian Formigle said of the analysis.