Apartment watch

The Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLT) report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said that the number of job openings in January was 10.82 million, down from the preliminary figure reported last...

A new study from the National Multifamily Housing Council's (NMHC) Research Foundation examines the purpose-built student housing market's role in overall escalating college costs. The report, authored by Jack Liebersohn and Jason Lee, finds that...

Tax policy is a critical tool that can be used to address the nation’s housing affordability crisis. National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) President Sharon Wilson Géno delivered that message to the Senate Finance Committee...

Yardi Matrix has released a research bulletin describing changes coming to the weather damage insurance market, and to insurance rates, for commercial property in response to recent storms. Where the damages are The report notes that...

While nationwide single-family housing starts have slowed in the past year, the largest drop on a percentage basis is occurring in the most dense counties, where housing costs are highest. Meanwhile, multifamily growth was...

While the delivery of a near-record 716,000 new multifamily housing units in the U.S. over the next two years will create a short-term oversupply, the new supply is needed to keep long-term fundamentals healthy...

The “Week 54” edition of the Census Bureau’s Pulse Survey shows that the portion of renters who are behind on their rent payments rose to 14.2 percent, up from the 12.6 percent reported in...

The Census Bureau’s report on construction spending shows that the value of multifamily residential construction put in place in January was up 0.4 percent month-over-month. Spending on single-family fell for the 9th month in...

CoStar reported that its value-weighted index of multifamily property prices fell 3.7 percent year-over-year in January 2023. This index was down 1.3 percent month-over-month, the seventh monthly decline in a row. The value-weighted index of...

Fannie Mae announced that it has launched the 2023 Multifamily Energy and Water Survey, a national effort to collect and analyze whole property energy and water consumption and costs from 2022, together with property-specific...

The latest rent report from Apartment List shows that the national average monthly rent growth in February was a positive 0.3 percent, breaking a string of 5 monthly declines. Year-over-year rent growth was 3.0...

Fannie Mae’s February economic and housing forecasts predict a higher number of multifamily starts in 2023 and 2024 than did last month’s forecast. The forecast for single-family starts was also revised higher for both...

Like many industries and markets, the residential real estate market was adversely affected by the pandemic. However, despite this disruption, the housing market is resilient with increasing homeownership in this sector. Industry reports actually...

While the two main confidence indexes for multifamily housing increased slightly in the fourth quarter, they both remained in negative territory, according to results from the Multifamily Market Survey (MMS) released by the National...

NAHB Chairman Alicia Huey Alicia, Huey, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a custom home builder and developer from Birmingham, Ala., today issued the following statement regarding the announcement by the...