Tag: demographics
INFOGRAPHIC: A luxury vibe
High-income millennials and Gen Zers are choosing Class A apartments over home ownership. Is it a lifestyle choice or the economy? National Class A rents...
Ageless tech
With the current real estate market not exactly favoring the buyer due to the interest rate hike and soaring housing prices, the demand for...
Making a big move
Nearly two years into the remote work revolution, it’s easy to feel that a lifetime has passed. However, the reality is we are just...
Infographic: Demographic shift toward lower taxes, free economies
While data collection does not include specifics on why people move, data scientists have drawn a correlation between low-tax, low-cost states and population growth. +0.1%...
Follow the renter
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, multifamily occupancy is up. Memphis, Tennessee, is seeing rising rents, and cap rates for apartment assets in Detroit have spiked. Months...
Escaping the city: America’s hottest neighborhoods of 2021
Resort towns and suburbs like California's Lake Tahoe and New Jersey's Washington Township are gaining ground with homebuyers as major coastal cities like San...
Renters are richer, older, and have larger households
It’s a perfect storm for raising rental costs: low vacancy rates not seen in decades, an influx of high-income renters, constraints on building new...
Demographic shifts in the workforce will make winners and losers
By 2030, approximately 693 million baby boomers will have reached retirement age. Meanwhile, nearly twice as many members of Generation Z—1.3 billion—will join the...
RentCafe sees boom in older renters
A new report from RentCafe looks at the changing demographics of the renting population in the United States. It concludes that renters over the...
When no one retires
Before our eyes, the world is undergoing a massive demographic transformation. In many countries, the population is getting old. Very old. Globally, the number...
Social media 2018
A new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults finds that the social media landscape in early 2018 is defined by a mix of...
Why do people choose part-time jobs?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just released a report examining the reasons people choose part-time jobs. “Part-time jobs” are defined in the report...
Walking tall
Of course, there are some obligatory qualifiers for that optimism. Most economists continue to project sustained moderate growth; but if a national recession takes...
Honey, we shrunk the future
Instead of those conditions adding up to more babies, as they traditionally have, the U.S. birth rate dropped—and it’s not clear whether women today...