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The national median rent fell 0.8% in December, and now stands at $1,356. This closes the book on 2025, with five consecutive months of rent declines. Based on recent years, we expect another 1-2 months of rent drops before the market turns a corner in early Spring. Rent prices nationally are down 1.3% compared to one year ago. Year-over-year rent growth has been slightly negative for more than two full years, and the national median rent has now fallen from its 2022 peak by a total of 5.9%. The national multifamily vacancy rate ran up to 7.3% this month, a record high for our index that started in 2017. We’re past the peak of a multifamily construction surge, but a healthy supply of... Read more
Most multifamily real estate owners need to finance or refinance their apartment community at some point. Many utilize the small balance multifamily loan programs...
Fake move-in packages are proliferating on social media platforms like Reddit, TikTok, and Facebook, luring would-be renters into purchasing identities and...
An emerging cohort of affluent households is reshaping the high end of the rental market. Data shows that the number of wealthy renters earning top incomes has surged in...
Your virtual tours accomplish one of two things. They either attract and qualify prospective renters, helping them visualize what your units and amenities look like...
“The Residences at…” format is failing—and voice search is the reason why. Smart speakers, voice assistants, and voice-to-text tools are influencing how prospective residents search for apartments. And the naming conventions that once worked perfectly fine in a typed-search world just don’t hold up in a voice-first one. Think about how people actually start their search today: “Alexa, find apartments near me with a gym.” That’s the new norm. And yet many apartment community names are still overly complex, built around long directional phrases or localized identifiers. That might have made sense before voice assistants became mainstream, but in 2026,... Read more
Water is a necessity for living—but it’s also a potential hazard for all types of buildings, on both micro and macro levels. In the form of extreme weather, water...
If buying a home today is financially out of reach for many Americans, affording the rent may also seem like an increasingly tall order. In the 50 largest U.S....
With cannabis use becoming increasingly normalized (as of 2025, 40 states permit medical marijuana use and 24 permit both medical and recreational consumption), co-op...
Multifamily living means sharing spaces with neighbors and, unfortunately, it also often means sharing areas with pests like cockroaches, bedbugs, rats, and mice....
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