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Homeownership peaked at 69% in 2004, then fell for years thereafter before rebounding in 2020 to 66%. Fundamentals are set to change the business model on renting vs. buying for some time to come. Corporate...

The pandemic has made large cash deposits a financial burden for some residents seeking to relocate. Providing alternatives to security deposits makes move-in more accessible and reduces long-term risk across multifamily portfolios. Some state and...

California Governor Gavin Newsom, along with leaders of the California state Assembly and Senate, reached agreement on Assembly Bill 832. This will increase the portion of unpaid rent owed by the state’s renters which...

The U.S. multifamily sector remains an attractive option for real estate investors looking for a safe haven. Beyond the pool of traditional buyers who are actively acquiring apartment properties, the sector has become a...

A growing movement of local governments and communities across the United States is beginning to grapple with an unfortunate realization: The highway boom of the 1950s and ‘60s produced a massive amount of infrastructure...

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), has extended the agency’s eviction moratorium for renters until July 31, 2021. The agency says that this extension is intended to be...

A report from Real Capital Analytics (RCA) said that multifamily property prices rose 10.1 percent in the year to May as part of a general rise in commercial real estate prices. This represented the...

For all we know about our current housing market, the sources of demand, the supply headwinds and the changing financing landscape, one key variable has been unclear to us since the pandemic began: just...

RealPage, a software and data analytics company, in conjunction with J Turner Research, an online reputation management firm, announced the results of a nearly three-year study that reveals the impact of online reputation on...

Equity Group Investments’ Sam Zell, Brookfield Asset Management’s Bruce Flatt, and Blackstone Group’s Stephen Schwarzman are some of the world’s top real estate investors. They’ve bought and sold billions of dollars of properties over...

Proponents of big government spending have desperately argued that mounting price inflation is just temporary. But multiple alarming inflation metrics came out for April and May, and examples of rising prices are clear to...

Wall Street asset management giant Blackstone Group announced it is buying a firm with a portfolio of 17,000 single-family rental homes in a $6 billion deal that bets big on the red-hot U.S. housing...

Recent news around the struggles facing multifamily real estate owners centers on rent moratoriums, which were extended. These are proving to be a significant risk to the industry even with rental assistance. However, there’s another...

Federal government stimulus payments and expanding payrolls are boosting savings, enabling building managers to lift rent prices on apartments and houses nationwide. A record-low inventory of homes for sale also leaves more people renting. Median...

Real estate investing can be a long-view thing for many investors, whether putting money directly into a project or property or in the stock market through, for example, real estate investment trusts (REITs). With that...