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Renting remained less expensive than buying in every major U.S. metropolitan area in August, preserving a significant affordability advantage for rental housing despite rent growth. The typical U.S. asking rent was $1,948 per month, compared with an estimated monthly payment of $3,014 for a newly purchased home, according to Zillow’s August Rent Report. That left renters paying $1,066 less per month or $12,792 less annually. Zillow calculated the homeownership cost using a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage with 10% down at a 6.67% interest rate. The estimate also included property taxes and insurance but did not account for other ownership expenses such as closing costs and... Read more
Sky-high rental costs across the U.S. are swallowing up a large share of Americans’ paychecks in cities, as a stubborn supply shortage keeps prices...
Multifamily advertised rents saw slight growth in August, rising $2 to $1,173, according to Yardi Matrix’s latest report. Year-over-year growth accelerated to 0.4%,...
KEY TAKEAWAYS Florida renters need to earn $37.93 per hour to afford a typical two-bedroom, per NLIHC’s 2026 data. The state minimum wage is $14, and average renter...
Multifamily insurance costs have jumped so sharply since 2019 that they are eroding net operating income, weakening valuations, and threatening the long‑term...
A new Yardi Matrix analysis documents the impact of debt collection success on key aspects of affordable housing providers’ operating performance as local policies become a larger component of the market’s operating performance in rent collection. “Affordable property operators say the payment rate worsened in recent years after the expiration of eviction bans that were implemented during the Covid-19 lockdowns. In some cases, tenants got used to not paying rent, either because they could not or did not want to pay,” the report says. The responsiveness of the judicial system is another major factor. Collections tend to be lower in jurisdictions in which it takes months or years... Read more
Multifamily insurance costs have jumped so sharply since 2019 that they are eroding net operating income, weakening valuations, and threatening the long‑term...
The country’s broader middle class is facing a housing crisis: a growing gap in available, high-quality rental options. High-demand markets like Miami and New York...
A new federal housing law is putting limits on some of the country’s largest buyers of single-family homes. But for the typical independent landlord, the story is...
Class-C apartment operators in Chicago are buoyed by many of the tailwinds bolstering the city’s multifamily market as a whole: limited new supply, rising rent...
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