Mixed employment picture in April
The Employment Situation Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that apartment operations employment fell slightly while residential construction employment rose overall in the latest month. Total employment continues to grow The Bureau of Labor...
Census reports rising vacancies in Q1
The Census Bureau released its quarterly report on home ownership and occupancy for Q4 2022. It stated that the rental housing vacancy rate was 6.4 percent, up from a level of 5.8 percent in...
JOLT data reflect weakening jobs market
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLT) report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said that the number of job openings in March was 9.59 million, down 384,000 openings from last month’s revised...
Multifamily fundamentals begin to stabilize
The U.S. multifamily sector is beginning to stabilize as vacancy rate expansion and negative absorption ease—trends that are expected to continue in 2023, according to CBRE’s latest research. The overall multifamily vacancy rate increased by...
First Republic takeover deals yet another blow to Bay Area real estate
The takeover of First Republic by JPMorgan Chase adds another complication to a local real estate market already hampered by high interest rates, difficulties in financing and low occupancy. And for Bay Area real estate...
Slow rise in multifamily construction spending in March
The Census Bureau’s report on construction spending said that the value of multifamily residential construction put in place in March was up 0.4 percent month-over-month. Spending on single-family fell for the 11th month in...
Multifamily property prices up on higher sales volume
CoStar reported that its value-weighted index of multifamily property prices fell 7.2 percent year-over-year in March 2023. However, this index was up 1.4 percent month-over-month, the first monthly rise after a string of 8...
April rent growth lags prior years
The latest rent report from Apartment List shows that the national average monthly rent growth in April was a positive 0.5 percent, down 0.1 percentage point from last month’s increase. It was the third...
Trepp examines refinance risk
A recent report from Trepp looked at the amount of securitized debt on multifamily property that is expected to come due over the next 2 years and estimated that 42 percent of that debt...
Market continues to loosen, transactions pull back amidst economic uncertainty
Apartment market conditions continued to weaken in the National Multifamily Housing Council’s (NMHC) Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions for April 2023, as the Market Tightness (31), Sales Volume (26), Equity Financing (23), and...
Fannie Mae forecasts shallower multifamily downturn
Fannie Mae’s April economic and housing forecast reduces the depth of the predicted downturn in multifamily housing starts, although it leaves the timing of the downturn largely unchanged. Multifamily starts forecast rises The current forecast for...
Multifamily property prices lead decline
The latest commercial property price report from MSCI Real Capital Analytics said that multifamily property prices fell 1.9 percent in March from their level of the month before. While this was again the largest...
SFR rent growth continues slide
A report from CoreLogic, a data and analytics company, states that the rate of rent growth in the single-family rental (SFR) market fell in February for the tenth month in a row. Year-over-year rents...
Rent delinquencies stabilize in latest Pulse Survey
The “Week 56” edition of the Census Bureau’s Pulse Survey shows that the portion of renters with rent delinquencies rose to 13.1 percent, up from the 12.4 percent reported in the Week 55 survey...
Mixed picture for CMBS in March
Two reports from Trepp give conflicting indications of the health of the CMBS market with one showing declining delinquency rates but the other showing rising special servicing rates. CBMS delinquencies edge lower One monthly Trepp report...
