Tag: Blog
Steady as she goes for the multifamily housing market
Yardi Matrix released its January report on the multifamily housing market. The report describes a market with healthy year-over-year rent growth. Waiting for spring Yardi Matrix...
Brookings analyzes migration
A recent report from the Brookings Institution compares and contrasts recent migration patterns for young adults and for seniors using data from the Census...
The surge in high-income renters
A report by RentCafe highlights the rise in the number of high-income renters between 2007 and 2017. Setting the threshold The report focuses on households earning...
MBA data show growth for multifamily mortgages in Q3
The recently issued Commercial/Multifamily Quarterly Databook from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) shows continued strength in originations of multifamily mortgages and growth in the...
CoStar tracks multifamily property values
The Costar Group recently released a report on the change in value of commercial property in the United States. This blog entry looks at the...
An alternative view of rent growth
Rent growth is a key metric for assessing the health of the multifamily rental industry. While RealPage and Yardi Matrix have long supplied estimates...
The big news break up
The media world is shifting--again. First there was the internet and the print is dead campaign. News organizations feared the Internet, bloggers, independent news reporters,...
GSE’s dominate multifamily CMBS market
Trepp, a provider of data, analytics, and technology solutions to the global securities and investment management industries, recently issued a report on the issuance...
Marcus and Millichap looks ahead to 2019
Marcus and Millichap (M&M) recently released their 2019 Multifamily North American Investment Forecast report. It expands on the webinar they presented two months ago....
Mass timber may be coming to an apartment building near you
Interest has been growing in expanding the use of wood in the structures of tall buildings. Changes to building codes are coming that will...
California sues Huntington Beach over the lack of affordable housing
The lack of affordable housing, particularly on the West Coast, continues to intensify. So pressing is the problem of housing in California that the...
Meet the neighbors
Wally, a 5-foot alligator, is a rescue. At nearly 4 years old, this cold-blooded reptile could grow as long as 16 feet at full...
RealPage presents market update and forecast
On January 22, Greg Willett and Adam Couch of RealPage presented their quarterly market update webinar. It covered the state of the economy and...
Freddie looks ahead
The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation’s (Freddie Mac) Multifamily Research Center recently issued a report entitled “Multifamily 2019 Outlook”. The report forecasts continued strength...
New governor takes on California housing
Addressing the state’s problem with housing was a focus of both Gavin Newsom’s inaugural address as California’s governor and of his first state budget...
