Things to watch, what to know, in your apartment operation
Tag: Apartment Watch
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...
CoStar: multifamily property prices falling
CoStar reported that its value-weighted index of multifamily property prices was down 1.4 percent month-over-month in October, the fourth monthly decline in a row....
Rents continue slide in November
The latest rent report from Apartment List shows that the national average rent growth in November remained negative for the third consecutive month. Rents...
Job openings trend lower in October
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLT) report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said that the number of job openings fell to...
Rent delinquencies nearly unchanged in Pulse Survey
The “Week 51” edition of the Census Bureau’s Pulse Survey shows that the portion of renters who are behind on their rent payments fell...
Criminal background checks out in NYC?
A measure called the Fair Chance for Housing Act is under consideration by the New York City Council. It would ban the use of...
