Rents

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....

Multifamily concession offerings are on the rise nationally as rent growth slows. According to Fannie Mae, almost 21 percent of multifamily units were offering concessions averaging five percent as of Q2 2024. The return...

A new study from RealPage reveals that renters will pay higher rents for modern conveniences and efficiencies and a moving and rent-pay process as easy as ordering from Amazon. The 2,000 U.S....

Increasing apartment supply is slowing new lease-up velocity, said Madera Residential head of investment strategy and research Jay Parsons. Leasing velocity for newly built apartments is at its slowest pace in recent...

Surging demand in Q2 2024 helps stabilize occupancy and rent growth and narrow the gap between supply and demand, according to RealPage Market Analytics. RealPage market analyst Carl Whittaker thinks this is...

download pdf Hybrid work is likely here to stay. This shift isn’t just changing lifestyles—it’s also affecting commercial spaces. Office vacancy rates post-COVID shot up almost overnight, and they remain near 20 percent nationwide, the...

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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...

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...

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)...

^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 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...

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...

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...