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...
Peabody Properties’ Kimairys Maldonado Achieves SHCM and CPO Accreditations
Peabody Properties, an affiliate of The Peabody Companies, a group of award-winning property management and real estate firms now celebrating its 48th anniversary, is pleased to announce that Kimairys Maldonado of Brockton, Massachusetts has...
L.A. homeless tower building cost rings bells
Gym, balconies, restaurant, soundproof music studio, business center, located in downtown Los Angeles, and it’s pet friendly. Sounds like a pretty good hotel, four-stars at least. Sounds like it, but it isn’t. It’s the new Weingart...
Are you dreamscrolling? Three ways to gain control
Beth Martin may be a designer in Charleston, South Carolina, but, in her head, she is in the south of France, touring a 1700s chateau. Real estate site Zillow is where Martin tends to take...
Seven trends reshaping the workplace
Where and how we work has changed a lot in the past several years. Collectively, we’ve experienced some of the most significant and far-reaching changes in the world of work since the Industrial Revolution. Zoom...
Rents fall behind inflation
Tracking rents is important for understanding the dynamics of the housing market. For example, the sharp increase in rents helped me deduce that there was a surge in household formation in 2021 (September 2021:...
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...
Economics and the hidden order
The “real world” is calling. But the real world is a real mess. So how do we clean up the mess? That’s a massive task: too big for any one person. This looks like...
Creating habits in an age of distraction
There’s no doubt that we are more distracted than ever in our age of screens. Everything from the latest news on social media to our favorite movie to online shopping is only a few...
Rent control still the wrong solution to housing woes
Restricting the price of housing kills incentives to supply places to live. Rent control is having something of a moment: In Los Angeles, tenants are invoking a law that imposes limits on apartments built on...
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...
Publisher’s note: The measure of all things
“Man is the measure of all things,” wrote Greek philosopher Protagoras two and a half millennial ago. While a simple notion, it’s important to remind ourselves that the gauges we use to measure are...
INFOGRAPHIC: The era of fiscal excess
download pdf Lockdowns were the beginning of the end of office space as we’ve known it for over four decades. Work from home spurred vacancies expected to rise through 2025. The 2022 Fed interest rate...
Class A apartments in high-supply markets outpace Class B on year-over-year rent growth
Although it might defy conventional wisdom, Class A apartments in high-supply markets are outperforming upper tier Class B assets on year-over-year rent growth, according to RealPage Analytics. New apartment supply is at...
1.1 million apartments occupied since 2020
National apartment occupancy hit a 10-year low at the end of 2023, while demand reached its highest point since Q2 2022 and continues to be strong. The number of occupied apartments in...
