Things to watch, what to know, in your apartment operation
Tag: Apartment Watch
Fannie Mae lowers multifamily housing starts forecast
Fannie Mae’s December economic and housing forecasts predict a larger decline in multifamily housing starts over the next two years than in earlier forecasts....
Single-family production continues to sag, multifamily permits weakening
Single-family housing starts continued to fall in November, with the pace of construction down 32 percent since February when mortgage rates began to rise....
Stop Wall Street Landlords Act introduced
Three California Democrats have introduced Federal legislation intended to discourage corporate ownership of single-family rental housing by changing tax law to make such ownership...
Construction delays and high costs persist, but conditions may begin to improve
The December edition of the NMHC Quarterly Survey of Apartment Construction & Development Activity found small improvements in terms of the share of respondents...
Reflecting a weakening housing market, builder confidence declined every month in 2022
High mortgage rates, elevated construction costs running well above the inflation rate and flagging consumer demand due to deteriorating affordability conditions have dragged builder...
Fed forecasts higher interest rates, slower growth ahead
While the big news coming out of the recent meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) was their decision to raise the Fed...
Banks increase holdings of multifamily mortgage debt in Q3
A Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) report on commercial and multifamily mortgage debt holdings shows that banks and thrifts again had by far the largest...
Rent growth turns negative in November
Yardi Matrix reported that national average apartment rent growth turned negative in November with rents falling $9 from October’s revised level to $1,719 per...
Construction materials prices continue to fall
The November producer price index (PPI) report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) stated that construction materials prices fell 0.2 percent in the...
Growing demand and construction costs lead universities to get creative
Quality student housing and other amenities have proven to be key considerations for attracting and retaining top students at colleges and universities. As the...
Senior housing construction activity slows
NIC Map Vision reports that senior housing construction starts slowed dramatically in Q3 in the face of rising interest rates and construction costs. However,...
Single-Family construction slows in post-Covid hot markets
The big jump in single-family home building activity that occurred in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in large metro outlying counties and exurban...
Rising employment reported for multifamily
The Employment Situation Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that employment in both residential construction and in apartment operations edged higher in...
Multifamily construction spending steady as single-family falls
The Census Bureau’s report on construction spending shows that the value of multifamily residential construction put in place in October was up 0.6 percent...
Zillow’s hot housing takes for 2023
Midwestern markets will heat up, and more friends and family members will pool their money to buy homes together in 2023, as people look...
