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Supreme Court keeps CDC eviction moratorium in place
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to act to set aside the CDC’s eviction ban. The ban is currently scheduled to expire July 31,...
CoStar reports steady rise in multifamily property prices
A recent report from CoStar indicates that the remarkably steady rise in multifamily property prices that has taken place over the last two years...
HUD seeks to revive Obama-era disparate impact rule
On Friday June 25, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that they have published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on...
Multifamily property price gains accelerate in May
A report from Real Capital Analytics (RCA) said that multifamily property prices rose 10.1 percent in the year to May as part of a...
JCHS releases The State of the Nation’s Housing report
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University has released the 2021 edition of its report chronicling the issues surrounding housing in the...
CDC extends eviction moratorium
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), has extended the agency’s eviction moratorium until July 31, 2021. The agency...
RCLCO talks single family rentals
RCLCO discussed single family rentals (SFR) and build for rental (BFR) properties in conjunction with their monthly round-up webinar. The presentation was a good...
GSEs remain dominant holder of multifamily mortgage debt in Q1 2021
A Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) report on multifamily and commercial mortgage debt shows that the GSEs accounted for 80 percent of the increase in...
Forecasts say higher inflation is coming
A pair of forecasts, one from Fannie Mae and one from the Federal Reserve anticipate that a period of significantly higher inflation than had...
Census reports solid multifamily housing construction results
The Census Bureau released its monthly new residential construction report for May 2021. It stated that some results were down from those in recent...
Strong rent growth reported for May
The latest rent report from Yardi Matrix shows record rent growth for the country as-a-whole in May.
Rents up sharply
Yardi Matrix reported that the national...
Construction materials prices higher in May
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its producer price index report for May 2021. It showed that construction materials prices were up 3.9...
HUD to revise AFFH rules – again
On June 10, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published an interim final rule regarding HUD's affirmatively furthering fair housing (AFFH) regulations....
Job openings set a record in April
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released the Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLT) report for April. In addition to setting a series record for...
Multifamily jobs markets mixed in May
The latest Employment Situation Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that jobs categories of interest to builders and operators of multifamily housing...
