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Moody’s Investor Services recently released a report discussing the future of urban areas, and particularly of urban housing, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Why cities? The report acknowledges the many uncertainties that surround how...

Confidence in the market for new multifamily housing increased in the second quarter, however, it still remains in negative territory, according to results from the Multifamily Market Survey (MMS) released by the National Association of Home Builders...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the changes it has caused in our lives are bound to have an impact on where people choose to live. A variety of sources have attempted to measure the impact...

A Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) report on mortgage originations shows that, while multifamily mortgage originations fell in the latest quarter, they held up better than did originations for other commercial property types. Setting a baseline The...

The Census Bureau released its monthly new residential construction report for July 2020. It shows a strong rebound in multifamily housing construction. Permits up strongly The number of permits issued for buildings with 5 or more...

The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)’s Rent Payment Tracker found 86.9 percent of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by August 13 in its survey of 11.4 million units of professionally...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released its Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLT) report for June. It shows that the jobs market is continuing to recover from the COVID-19 induced shutdowns, but...

AMLI Residential, a leading developer of sustainable, multifamily properties, announced the results of its fourth annual Sustainable Living Index. This year’s survey polled a record 4,891 AMLI apartment residents asking how their opinions on...

CoStar recently released its quarterly report on the change in value of commercial property in the United States. This article looks at the part of the report that deals with multifamily property values. Defining the indices The...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its producer price index report for July 2020. It showed that the BLS price index of materials and components for construction was up 0.5 percent from June,...

The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)’s Rent Payment Tracker found 79.3 percent of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by August 6 in its survey of 11.4 million units of professionally...

A survey by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation and the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) examined the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the mostly small landlords who are members of...

Fannie Mae has remained committed to assisting residential tenants in Fannie Mae-financed multifamily rental housing who are facing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In support of the announcement by the Federal Housing...

IMN recently put on a webinar discussing the impact of the pandemic on the business of providing multifamily housing in California. The webinar set a very ambitious number of topics to be discussed, especially...

Yardi Matrix released its July 2020 report on the multifamily housing market. The report shows some recovery in rents for the multifamily rental housing market nationally, but wide variations between metro areas exist. The rent...