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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 weakening even through the normally busy spring leasing season. For investors who have treated SFRs as a reliable growth engine since 2020, the latest data from Rentometer and federal vacancy figures indicate a market moving into a more competitive, supply‑driven phase. National Rent Growth Breaks Its Streak National single‑family rents in the first half of 2026 fell 1.6% year-over-year, marking the first sustained slowdown in rent growth since the pandemic, according to Rentometer. From the first half of 2020 through the... Read more
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...
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 city plans to target landlords it says are operating housing in bad faith. The series of hearings, which were held across the five boroughs between February and April, provided an outlet to tenants accusing their landlords of negligence. In response, property owners expressed outrage, claiming the campaign was essentially a witch hunt. The mayor’s office has refuted those claims, saying the hearings informed proposed reforms that will improve the way upright landlords work with tenants and the city and only target... Read more
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...
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,...
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