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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...
In a reversal of migration trends over the past 25 years, Americans are beginning to move away from areas where the high risk of extreme weather events is pushing up the cost of property insurance. Residential real estate values have grown by more than $20T since 2020 — but insurance costs have also spiked by double digits on an annual basis since 2017. Now, states with the highest levels of climate risk are starting to see changes in migration as insurance costs begin to tarnish property values, according to data from real estate business intelligence firm Cotality. “We just see very early signs that insurance premiums are having an effect on where people live,” John Rogers, chief... Read more
Occupancy and rent change are improving a bit in the most upscale communities, where a big wave of new supply had held back earlier results. At the same time, however,...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani barreled into City Hall vowing to tackle the city’s notoriously high cost of living, partly by fulfilling a campaign promise...
More tenants living in New York City’s least expensive housing units aren’t paying their rent — a trend that risks further destabilizing the city’s...
Key Takeaways In expensive coastal metros, ownership is out of reach for the majority of families with young children, making renting the default for most...
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