Apartment watch

On Wednesday, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson will visit Pathways to Housing PA, a HUD supported organization that transforms individual lives by housing the homeless and supporting drug recovery...

The Economic Innovation Group (EIG) launched the Opportunity Zones Activity Map, an online portal highlighting some of the most innovative and impactful publicly-announced developments catalyzed in the early stages of this new policy. This...

The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) released their 2021 list of the largest firms in the US multifamily housing industry. The firms are ranked by units in buildings with 5 or more units. The...

Today the Department of the Interior announced changes that will improve the way the Endangered Species Act is applied—changes that will benefit property owners and species. Interior’s new rules terminate an illegal and counterproductive...

CoStar reported that its value-weighted index of multifamily property prices fell 0.4 percent month-over-month in December 2023, the fourth decline in a row. This index was down 10.7 percent year-over-year. The value-weighted index of non-multifamily...

Nearly 70,000 home building professionals from around the globe filled the exhibit halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center as the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) hosted the NAHB International Builders’ Show (IBS),...

Today, the California State Assembly voted 75 - 0 to pass Assembly Bill (AB) 1188, authored by Assembly member Jesse Gabriel (D – San Fernando Valley), which would make it easier for both landlords...

The latest forecasts from Fannie Mae and from the Federal Reserve relate the impact that the rapid rise in interest rates is expected to have on the economy. Fannie Mae issues a monthly forecast for...

A new report from Trepp takes a look at the state of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) lending in Q3 2022. While the report covers lending for all commercial property types, this article focuses on...

The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)’s Rent Payment Tracker found 79.8 percent of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by April 6 in its survey of 11.6 million units of professionally...

Chicago-based CA Ventures today announced plans to invest $500 million over the next five years in the European housing market, specifically across the purpose-built student housing and multifamily apartment sectors. A vertically integrated owner, developer and operator of apartments spanning all adult life stages, CA Ventures has a $6.7 billion portfolio...

According to new research conducted by Harris for the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, the American love affair with the living landscape continues. This research about preferences regarding the family yard is important for Realtors...

Yardi Matrix recently presented their Fall 2020 Multifamily National Outlook webinar. It was a wide-ranging discussion of economic, medical, and cultural trends affecting multifamily housing. Jeff Adler, Vice President of Yardi Matrix was the...

Financial readiness is a key challenge for career service member families, particularly among the military spouses who bear primary responsibility for managing household finances, according to the latest findings of the First Command Financial...

Fannie Mae’s December economic and housing forecast predicts that single-family and multifamily starts will fall in 2024, but not as far as they predicted last month. Multifamily starts will have milder downturn The current forecast for...