Analysts predict how multifamily will thrive in 2025
As we enter the New Year, analysts are peering into their crystal balls to predict how multifamily will thrive in 2025. Yardi Matrix sees the multifamily market poised for modest growth, driven by...
Yardi Matrix: expenses and income grow in tandem in affordable housing
On December 3, Yardi Matrix released its first-ever report on expense and income growth in the affordable housing sector. The report concludes that expenses and income have grown in tandem at above-level...
Multifamily scores ballot winners and losers
The USA is preparing to swear in President-elect Donald J. Trump as its 47th president, or what some housing experts call the return of the nation’s builder-in-chief. Housing was a major focus...
High supply apartment markets ride demand wave
More than 558,000 apartment units have delivered over the past 12 months, hitting what RealPage Analytics calls a 50-year supply peak. But booming demand for rental housing has been a bright spot...
Millennials rising
Millennials are now wealthier than previous generations were at their age. They can’t believe it either. The median household net worth of older millennials, born in the 1980s, rose to $130,000 in 2022 from $60,000...
Categories hit hardest by inflation
Despite inflation cooling to the lowest level in more than three years in July, there’s no way around the fact that consumer prices in the United States have risen sharply over the past three...
Has capitalism come at the expense of the poor?
Perhaps the most amazing fact in all economic history is the unprecedented rise in wealth per person that has taken place in the last two centuries, following the Industrial Revolution. But it remains a...
Market set for recovery
The multifamily housing market is showing promising signs of recovery, with recent data from CoStar Group revealing a significant increase in demand and stabilization of vacancy rates. Absorption rates have notably risen from 118,000 units...
The housing theory of childless cat ladies
Would a YIMBY building boom rejuvenate urban family life or produce sterile, megacity hellscapes? Housing Boom = Baby Bust? America’s low birth rate is in the news again, thanks largely to Vice Presidential candidate Sen. J.D....
Affordability is re-emerging as a tailwind for market-rate apartments.
Affordability is re-emerging as a tailwind for market-rate apartments. One takeaway from data discussed on a RealPage podcast this week is that rent-to-income ratios have returned to pre-pandemic levels, suggesting affordability issues...
