Things to watch, what to know, in your apartment operation
Tag: Apartment Watch
Multifamily construction sentiment improves in first quarter of 2021
Confidence in the market for new multifamily housing increased in the first quarter of 2021, according to results from the Multifamily Market Survey (MMS) released today...
Investor home purchases rise for first time in a year as U.S. economy bounces...
U.S. home purchases by investors rose 2.7 percent year over year in the first quarter, marking the first period of growth since the coronavirus...
Multifamily housing construction continues strong in April
The Census Bureau released its monthly new residential construction report for April 2021. It reported that permits, starts and completions all remained at high...
NMHC and NAA statement on the introduction of the Yes in My Backyard (YIMBY)...
Statement from the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) and National Apartment Association (NAA) on the introduction of the Yes in My Backyard (YIMBY) Act: NMHC...
Construction materials prices higher again in April
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its producer price index report for April 2021. It showed that construction materials prices were up 2.1...
Job openings up in March
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released the Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLT) report for March. It shows that the labor market...
Rents jump in April
The latest rent reports from Yardi Matrix and Apartment List show strongly positive rent growth for the country as-a-whole in April. Rents up strongly Yardi Matrix...
Jobs market growth disappoints in April
The latest Employment Situation Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that jobs categories of interest to builders and operators of multifamily housing...
Gov. Newsom announces plan to pay rental housing providers 100 percent of rent owed
Gov. Newsom announced his intent to pay rental housing providers 100 percent of rent that’s gone unpaid because of COVID-19. “This is certainly welcome news,...
Rent Payment Tracker: Payment rates remain the same as last month
The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)’s Rent Payment Tracker found 80.0 percent of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by May...
Residential construction spending mixed in March
The Census Bureau’s report on construction spending shows that the value of residential construction put in place in March was up 1.7 percent from...
CDC eviction ban struck down nationwide
On May 5, federal judge Dabney Friedrich ruled in the case of Alabama Association of Realtors v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
CBRE sees positives for multifamily housing market
CBRE recently released its report on the state of the multifamily housing market in Q1 2021. It found that the market stabilized after a...
Multifamily property prices see gains in Q1
Recent reports from CoStar and from Real Capital Analytics (RCA) show that multifamily property prices rose in the year to March. Defining the indices The CoStar...
Skyrocketing lumber prices add nearly $36,000 to new home prices
Soaring lumber prices that have tripled over the past 12 months have caused the price of an average new single-family home to increase by $35,872, according...
