Tag: supply

Permits for future U.S. homebuilding tumbled to a five-month low in April, suggesting the housing market was slowing as rising mortgage rates contribute to...

In my recent article on the Biden administration’s many-pronged assault on economic freedom, I pointed out that comparisons of President Biden with former president...

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) called on Congress and the Biden administration to help ease building material supply chain bottlenecks that are harming housing...

Apartment completions in the 150 largest U.S. metros spiked at 395,775 units in 2017, a volume that beats the 2016 level by a significant...

The commercial banks that make most construction loans to apartment developers are beginning to be more careful. That’s because of worries about the many...

After six years of rising apartment rents, investors from all corners of the real estate industry are piling into new projects in a bet...

The new construction represents the latest wave in what promises to be a flood of new residential projects to downtown. Multiple other projects are...

“It’s kind of late in the party, when all the punch is gone,” says Ryan Severino, senior economist and associate director of research for...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each purchased more than $10 billion in multifamily loans in the first quarter of 2015, providing financing for more...

Rising rents and asset values are reinforcing the industry’s favored narrative: younger Americans will remain enamored of the flexibility of renting and the enticements...

The rental vacancy rate, or the share of units that are empty and available for rent, fell 0.5 percentage point in 2013 to 8.2...