Things to watch, what to know, in your apartment operation
Tag: Apartment Watch
Construction materials price rises pause in September
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its producer price index (PPI) report for September 2021. It showed that construction components and materials prices...
Rents move higher in September
The latest rent reports from Yardi Matrix and Apartment List show strongly positive rent growth for the country as-a-whole in September. Rents up across the...
Job openings remain elevated in August
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released the Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLT) report for August. It reported that the number of...
Multifamily jobs markets see gains in September
The latest Employment Situation Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that both residential construction jobs and apartment operations jobs were up for...
Rent Payment Tracker: October payments down slightly
The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)’s Rent Payment Tracker found 78.4 percent of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by October...
NAA analysis finds U.S. households spend 27 percent of income on rent
The National Apartment Association (NAA) has released new research analyzing rent-to-income percentages, which are based on professionally managed residential lease applications screened by TransUnion’s...
Pillars Awards application window closes soon
Since 1990, the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) has sponsored the Pillars of the Industry Awards to recognize excellence in apartment and condominium design...
NMHC and Entrata partner to release student housing benchmarks
NMHC and Entrata announced a new partnership to release key benchmarks on the student housing industry. National and regional (Midwest, Northeast, South, Southeast, West)...
HUD to issue rule protecting tenants facing evictions for non-payment of rent in HUD-assisted...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Wednesday announced that it will publish a rule that prohibits the eviction of tenants...
Residential construction spending plateaus in August
The Census Bureau’s report on residential construction spending shows that the value of residential construction put in place in August was up 24 percent...
Banks increase share of multifamily mortgage debt in Q2
A Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) report on commercial and multifamily mortgage debt shows that the GSEs continued to be the largest source of net...
Forecasts predict slower growth, higher inflation
A pair of economic forecasts, one from Fannie Mae and one from the Federal Reserve project lower growth and higher inflation for the rest...
RCA: Multifamily property prices up in August
A report from Real Capital Analytics (RCA) said that multifamily property prices rose 13.5 percent in the year to August. This is the highest...
New NMHC construction survey finds record impact on availability of construction labor
A record 93 percent of multifamily developer respondents reported construction delays in the jurisdictions where they operate, according to the eighth edition of the...
HUD awards $143 million in grants to support construction and project rental assistance for...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Multifamily Housing Programs announced on Wednesday that it has awarded $143 million in...
