Apartment watch

The latest rent report from Apartment List shows that the national average monthly rent growth in June was a positive 0.4 percent, down slightly from last month’s increase. Year-over-year rent growth was negative 0.5...

The Census Bureau’s report on construction spending said that the value of multifamily residential construction put in place in May was down 0.1 percent month-over-month. Single-family construction spending rose as did spending on improvements. In...

CoStar reported that its value-weighted index of multifamily property prices fell 15.3 percent year-over-year in May. However, this index was unchanged month-over-month. The value-weighted index of non-multifamily commercial property rose by 0.6 percent, year-over-year, in...

A recent report from Trepp looks at how multifamily net operating income (NOI) grew between 2021 and 2022 and how NOI growth varied across the country. It did so by examining a sub-set of...

The June edition of the NMHC Quarterly Survey of Apartment Construction & Development Activity found that multifamily development and construction firms continue to face headwinds. The rising cost of capital, coupled with a slowing...

As part of a statewide initiative to remediate its housing shortage, the state of California has mandated that the city of Costa Mesa zone for 11,760 new units of housing by 2029. To this...

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) published a Mortgagee Letter on June 28 that increased the threshold at which a Multifamily loan is considered a Large Loan from $75 million to $120 million. This was...

Yardi Matrix released its Summer 2023 U.S. Multifamily Outlook report. It examines the multifamily housing business by looking at 4 factors driving it: the economy, rents, new supply and capital markets. Economy The economy has been...

New research from Assurant, Inc., a leading global business services company that supports, protects and connects major consumer purchases, reveals that the average renter believes offering tech support, as well as connected home ecosystems,...

Fannie Mae’s June economic and housing forecast predicts that the expected economic downturn will occur slightly later than did other recent forecasts. It also predicts a higher level of multifamily starts in 2023 but...

Today, NMHC met with representatives from the Homes Guarantee Campaign to learn more about their priorities and personal stories. While the meeting was unscheduled, the discussion confirmed our mutual desire to see an increase...

A lack of existing inventory coupled with solid consumer demand helped to boost new home sales in May to their highest level since February 2022. Sales of newly built, single-family homes in May increased 12.2...

The latest commercial property price report from MSCI Real Capital Analytics said that multifamily property prices in May fell 0.9 percent from their level of the month before and fell 12.5 percent from their...

The average monthly mortgage costs 25 percent more on average than renting across the nation’s 50 most populous cities with just four exceptions: Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Houston. Of these cities, in Detroit it...

Inflation continues to wreak havoc on the American economy according to one important indicator: foreclosures. Foreclosures are rising across the country. Foreclosure data is compiled into categories: Foreclosure starts and completed foreclosures. Entering and moving...