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By Taylor Avakian, Principal Broker & Founder of The Group CRE A couple of years ago I toured a fourplex on one of the hill streets above Sunset, a few blocks up from Echo Park Lake. Built in 1926, stucco, original hardwood in three of the four units, a garage nobody had parked in since the Reagan administration. The seller had owned it since the early nineties. The rent roll was the kind that makes out-of-state buyers close the PDF and move on. Two tenants had been there over fifteen years. One of them was paying $1,140 for a one bedroom that would have leased for around $2,200 the same week if it had been empty. I’ve changed a few details, but that building is the one I think... Read more
KEY TAKEAWAYS US multifamily rents posted a 1.4% annual increase in June 2026, up from 1.2% the prior month, according to Zillow’s index. San Francisco led metros...
After several years of record apartment construction, the multifamily market is entering a new phase as slowing deliveries begin to restore landlords’ pricing...
National Rent Growth Trends National multifamily rent growth accelerated again in July, with both annual and short-term measures reaching their strongest levels in...
Renters can get an average of 703 square feet of apartment space nationwide for a $1,500 monthly budget, according to a new analysis from RentCafe. However, in nearly...
CoStar and Apartments.com have released the latest update on U.S. multifamily vacancy trends, showing improving market conditions as apartment demand continues to absorb the recent wave of new supply. The national apartment vacancy rate declined to 8.2% in the second quarter of 2026, down 26 basis points from the prior quarter and 14 basis points from one year earlier. The improvement reflects stronger renter demand and a moderation in apartment deliveries as the industry’s construction pipeline continues to shrink. U.S. apartment absorption totaled approximately 164,000 units during the second quarter, a 13% increase from one year ago. At the same time, apartment deliveries fell to... Read more
KEY TAKEAWAYS US renter mobility has dropped, with only 37% expecting to move in three years—down from 57% in 2014, per New York Fed data. Mortgage affordability...
What Happened: Consumer prices rose 0.1% in July and rose 3.4% year-over-year, according to data released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Both figures...
Single-family rental (SFR) rent growth accelerated in the Northeast and Midwest, home to eight of 10 leading markets in the first half of 2026. Buffalo, NY, outpaced...
Apartments.com, an industry-leading online marketplace of CoStar Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSGP), published its latest report on multifamily rent trends for July 2026. U.S....
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