Tag: single family rentals
The changing face of rentals: single-family
Second quarter data for 2019 reveal that approximately 42,000 homes were constructed as single-family built-for-rent homes over the last year—equal to the prior four...
Should multifamily operators also own single family rentals?
A recent report by John Burns Real Estate Consulting asserts that single-family rentals should be part of any multifamily rental property portfolio. It suggests...
What a difference a day makes
On Tuesday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that it was shuttering the program. This specific GSE program was not without controversy, and the...
Freddie Mac releases research on renters
Freddie Mac recently released the results of two polls. One studied renter preferences and attitudes. The other focused on renter mobility. Both provided interesting...
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...
Single-family landlords sink cash into Rust Belt rentals
Beahn buys and renovates a single-family home, hires a property manager and finds a tenant—then sells the whole package to an investor. He works...
The trillion dollar consolidation
The returns that large-scale single-family rentals (SFR) are producing are now measuring up to institutional standards and the management is under control. It wasn’t...
Beyond the apartment
American Homes 4 Rent, a five-year-old real estate investment trust and the biggest of the publicly traded landlords by number of homes, is buying...
Rentals continue to lead
There’s an under-supply of single-family houses and apartments to rent for the first time since 2001, according to an analysis by Frank Nothaft, chief...
Bundling single-family rentals
In one of the surest signs that the home-rental business is going corporate, Orlando's biggest new landlord has started bundling rent checks from residents...
Large-scale investors push boom in single-family home rentals
Could they provide a form of safe harbor or sanctuary for thousands of families who were displaced by financial difficulties from their previous homes...