Thursday, November 21, 2024

Rents

Market demand sets stage for few rent hikes

Market demand sets stage for few rent hikes

While asking rents for new leases nationally are running nearly flat over the past 12 months, those figures are heavily influenced by the Sunbelt, where record-high supply has turned rent growth negative in some...
The $10 billion fund from Starwood Capital Group has been trying to preserve its available cash and credit by limiting investor redemptions. In the first quarter, the fund was hit with $1.3 billion in withdrawal requests but satisfied less than $500 million of them, according to regulatory filings.

The incredible disappearing Starwood CRE investor

The $10 billion fund from Starwood Capital Group has been trying to preserve its available cash and credit by limiting investor redemptions. In the first quarter, the fund was hit with $1.3 billion in...
High interest rates have stranded the owners of overleveraged apartment properties worth billions of dollars.

Investors circle overleveraged apartments

Rescue capital is available for apartment borrowers that need it, but relatively few owners of over-leveraged apartment properties are willing to pay the price—so far. High interest rates have stranded the owners of over-leveraged apartment...
Interest rates slow apartment development

INFOGRAPHIC: Interest rates slow apartment development

Rising interest rates, tighter lending and flattening rents in parts of the country have left property companies from California to Florida waiting for financing that may not come soon. +500 days (up 45% from 2019)...

INFOGRAPHIC: Appliance payoff models explode

^58 percent increase in requested quotes to thousands of appliance repair businesses y/y (2022-2023) ^43 percent increase in appliance spend in 2023 compared to 2013—rising from $390 to $558 over the decade Why? 1987. Home appliances...
Disparate impact of high interest rates

INFOGRAPHIC: Disparate impact of high interest rates

Disparate impact of high interest rates has adversely impacted millions of low- and middle-income families—and housing providers. More often high interest rates depress stock and housing prices, and other asset values— impacting all income...
“What you don’t have, and what’s required for collusion, is a horizontal agreement among competing property operators to all use that software and to delegate their rent setting authority to a third party. “From what I’ve seen, and from what we’ve been able to discern from the industry, there’s nothing like that happening,” said David Cross, a partner at San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster’s antitrust litigation practice.

Multifamily faces antitrust litigation

With national elections around the corner, some of the nation’s largest apartment companies are facing antitrust litigation over usage of a product that has become increasingly important to the industry since the first multifamily...
CDC eviction moratorium

RealPage breaks silence in response to allegations of price fixing

RealPage breaks silence in response to allegations of price fixing levied by renters' groups and the U.S. Department of Justice, releasing a statement that tells "the real story." The statement is a response...
supply outpaces demand

Completions outpace new starts by widest levels in decades

Multifamily analysts predict supply will continue to exceed demand this year, keeping vacancy elevated and putting downward pressure on rents. So far in 2024, U.S. multifamily completions are outpacing new starts at...
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