Tag: multifamily market
Freddie Mac assesses the multifamily housing market
Last Friday, FreddieMac released a report on the mid-year 2018 outlook for the multifamily housing market. The report looks back at where the market...
Yardi Matrix releases multifamily housing outlook
Last Friday, Yardi Matrix released a report forecasting positive performance for the U.S. multifamily housing market for the rest of this year. However, good...
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...
Has the apartment market hit the inflection point?
But there is much concern that developers have been adding too much inventory, flooding some markets with new supply. This will inevitably raise vacancy...
There’s no business like multifamily business
According to JLL’s preliminary research, the total volume of apartment sales in 2015 not only exceeded last year’s record-breaking number—it crushed it. Investors poured nearly...
The next bubble?
Apartment sales volumes are back to peak levels. Prices have jumped to all-time highs. Cap rates have dropped to long-time lows. And with demand...
Multifamily investment bright while household formation remains dim
Even as construction of new apartment buildings hit the highest monthly construction pace since the beginning of 2006, the latest absorption rates for unsubsidized,...
Rentals rising
Every two years Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies publishes an analysis of current rental housing trends. The most recent report was released last...
Multifamily: a $3.4 billion energy efficiency opportunity
The United States has about 18 million apartments, condos and other dwellings in buildings of 5 units or more, representing nearly $22 billion a...