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Apartment watch

Things to watch, what to know, in your apartment operation

Most new multifamily mortgage debt supplied by GSEs in Q3

A Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) report on the level of outstanding commercial and multifamily mortgage debt shows that the GSE's increased their already dominant share of this debt in Q3. The MBA reported that multifamily...

Escaping the city: America’s hottest neighborhoods of 2021

Resort towns and suburbs like California's Lake Tahoe and New Jersey's Washington Township are gaining ground with homebuyers as major coastal cities like San Francisco and Philadelphia offer fewer benefits during the pandemic, according...

RealPage looks back at 2020

RealPage recently held a webinar where they took a look-back at 2020, reviewing the impacts of the pandemic on the multifamily housing market and on the broader economy. Presenting were Greg Willett, Chief Economist,...

Construction materials prices lower as lumber falls

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its producer price index report for November 2020. It showed that the BLS price index of materials and components for construction was down 0.3 percent from October,...
multifamily property prices

Multifamily property prices rise in October

Recent reports from CoStar and from Real Capital Analytics (RCA) show that multifamily property prices continued to increase in October. Defining the indices The CoStar report focuses on a relative measure of property values called the...
rent growth

Rents fall in November

A pair of reports, one from Yardi Matrix and one from Apartment List, track changes in rents charged across the country. The reports show rents declining slightly for the country as-a-whole. However, they both...
job market

Jobs market continues slow improvement

Two recent reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) describe the current labor situation. They are the Employment Situation Report for November and the Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLT) report for October....

Rent Payment Tracker: Payments down 7.8% from last month

The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)’s Rent Payment Tracker found 75.4 percent of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by December 6 in its survey of 11.5 million units of professionally...

SFR home market continues to feel effects of housing constraints

Ongoing supply constraints in America’s housing market continued to drive demand for single-family rental homes in the third quarter of 2020. Fueled by growing numbers of individuals and families transitioning away from urban residential...

Ginnie Mae November MBS volume sustains recent pace with more than $76 billion of...

Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities (MBS) continue to be a strong source of capital for America's homeowners, with more than $76.2 billion of securities issued in November, the fifth consecutive month issuance topped $70 billion....

HUD awards $54.7 million in grants to expand rental development for low-income persons with...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced the award of over $54.7 million in capital advance and project rental assistance grants to 15 organizations, to expand the supply of affordable rental...

Suburban shift for home construction continues into third quarter

A trend of higher demand for housing in lower-density areas reported in the second quarter National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Home Building Geography Index (HBGI) has persisted into the fall, as single-family and multifamily construction continued...

Why housing demand will likely stay high for years to come

Low rates of household formation since the Great Recession have caused 5.7 million "missing" households, a new Zillow analysis finds. These missing households represent people who historically would have moved into their own home but...

NMHC and One11 Advisors release apartment industry technology benchmarking report

In a first-of-its-kind multifamily sector survey specifically examining technology, the NMHC/One11 Advisors Apartment Industry Technology Benchmarking Report is designed to establish an industry-wide baseline understanding of how apartment companies are supporting technology and innovation...

NAHB Chairman responds to reduction of lumber tariffs

Chuck Fowke, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a custom home builder from Tampa, Florida, issued the following statement after the Commerce Department lowered duties on Canadian lumber shipments into...
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