Things to watch, what to know, in your apartment operation
Tag: Apartment Watch
Student-housing sees record-shattering transaction volume at 2022 year-end
Student housing has set an all-time high in transaction volume for 2022 with an annualized total of $18.9 billion, significantly surpassing the previous year-end...
Apartment demand fell in 2022
RealPage’s Early Edition report for Q4 2022 sums up key apartment absorption measures for 2022 and looks ahead to what we can expect for...
Senior housing occupancy up in Q4
An NIC Map Vision summary of the fundamentals of the senior housing industry reports that key metrics are still well below pre-pandemic levels, but...
Rent growth falls in December
Yardi Matrix reported that national average apartment rent growth turned negative in December with rents falling $4 from November’s revised level to $1,715 per...
CoStar reports falling multifamily property prices
CoStar reported that its value-weighted index of multifamily property prices was down 1.4 percent month-over-month in November, the fifth monthly decline in a row....
Job openings remain high in November
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLT) report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said that the number of job openings at the...
New EPA rules will discourage critically needed housing production
The National Apartment Association and the National Multifamily Housing Council express their disappointment in a regulation the EPA issued re-defining and expanding what “waters of...
November new home sales up as interest rates fall back
While new home sales received a slight bounce in November from moderating mortgage rates, the housing market continues to struggle because of ongoing supply...
Multifamily property prices lead decline
The latest commercial property price report from MSCI Real Capital Analytics said that multifamily property prices fell 1.1 percent in November from their level...
Multifamily construction starts continue to outpace completions
The Census Bureau’s new residential construction report for November stated that the number of multifamily construction permits issued was down from its recent very...
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...
