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Southern California’s rental market is costlier to the south, but landlords have more pricing power to the north. That’s a theme within my trusty spreadsheet‘s review of a Rentometer report tracking the rents landlords are seeking for three-bedroom houses in the first half of 2026 in 1,099 U.S. cities – including 163 in California. To highlight some geographical twists, the state was split into two. A broad definition of Southern California included 99 cities stretching from the Mexican border to San Luis Obispo and Ridgecrest. Northern California, for this math, was 64 cities from Redding to Tulare. Plus, to remind us how pricey California is, we also peeked at the study’s 936... Read more
After years of debate about the future of the office, many employers now appear to have accepted that working from home – often in some hybrid configuration –...
U.S. single-family rentals have finally hit a wall after years of steady post‑pandemic rent growth, with national asking rents slipping and pricing power...
KEY TAKEAWAYS US multifamily net absorption in Q2 2026 reached 124,600 units, an 8% YoY increase, according to Cushman & Wakefield. Median asking rents in the 50...
The debate over whether to buy or rent a home continues to tilt heavily in one direction in California’s largest cities, where home prices have been largely...
A stronger-than-usual spring leasing season has given the U.S. single-family rental market a boost, although annual rent growth remained well below last year’s pace, according to Cotality’s latest Single-Family Rent Index. National single-family rents increased 1.3% year-over-year in May, down from the 2.6% annual growth recorded in May 2025. Looking only at the spring leasing season, however, rents rose 2.2% between February and May, topping gains of 1.9% during the same period last year and 1.4% in 2024. “The May data tells two different stories,” Molly Boesel, senior principal economist at Cotality, said in the report. Annual rent growth remained... Read more
Manhattan and Brooklyn rents have reached new highs as the cost of living continues to rise across New York City. A report from the Corcoran Group found that the...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani released the highly anticipated findings from his administration’s “Rental Ripoff” hearings on Thursday and laid out a list of ways that the...
In Nashville, Tenn., the landlords come to you. At least, it looked that way from the texts showing up on Mason Comans’ phone a few months ago when he was...
The first full day at the National Apartment Association’s 2026 Apartmentalize conference highlighted a familiar tension for owners and operators. Demand is still...
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