Tag: Blog
Rent collections off to good start in May
The NMHC rent tracker project has released its first reading on rent collections in the month of May. It found that 2.2 percent more...
CoStar reports on commercial property values
CoStar recently released a report on the change in value of commercial property in the United States. It says that multifamily property values continue...
COVID-19 and multifamily: an update
On May 6, Yardi Matrix hosted a webinar on the impact of the COVID-19-related shutdown on the economy and its effect on multifamily housing....
New norms in a post-virus world
Institutional Property Advisors recently held a webinar to discuss how the new norms resulting from the COVID-19 epidemic would affect the behavior of residents...
Rent collections report for April, week 3
As part of its project to track rent payments being made during the corona virus shutdown, NMHC reported that an additional 5 percent of...
NMHC top 50 lists released
The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) released its list of the largest firms in the US multifamily housing industry. The firms are ranked by...
Census reports on multifamily housing construction for March 2020
The Census Bureau released its monthly new residential construction report for March 2020. It presents a mixed picture for multifamily housing construction with some...
Construction material prices stable in March
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its producer price index report for March 2020. It showed that overall prices for processed goods for...
Megacities in the future
An article by Edward Ring on the California Policy Center website titled “Sustainable Megacities” presents interesting facts and discusses a number of emerging technologies...
Yardi Matrix talks COVID-19 and multifamily
On April 1, Yardi Matrix held a webinar to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the multifamily housing industry. The webinar ran...
Yardi Matrix reports on rent growth
Yardi Matrix released its March 2020 report on the multifamily housing market. The report largely captures the state of the market shortly before the...
Renters’ plans to move impacted by COVID-19
A pair of surveys by Rent Cafe looked at how the COVID-19 outbreak has affected the plans of renters who had been planning on...
Cochrane on housing policy
John Cochrane, an economist at the Hoover Institution, was recently interviewed on the subject of housing, how we broke it and how it might...
CBRE on COVID-19 impact
On March 18, CBRE held a flash briefing on the potential impact of the COVID-19 virus. This blog provides highlights from that briefing that...
MBA reports on multifamily mortgage debt
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) recently issued their report on Q4 2019 debt outstanding on commercial property. This article summarizes the part of the...
