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Want to Rent Out Your Place for the World Cup?

FIFA World Cup organizers expect more than 150,000 extra visitors to flood the Los Angeles area during eight World Cup games this summer, and all of them are going to need places to sleep. AirBnB, the short-term rental giant, is kicking up its efforts to recruit more properties to the platform by offering a $750 bonus to first-time hosts in World Cup cities. The company courted new hosts with lunch and a special workshop Thursday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, where the games will be played. Other short-term rental companies — like Vrbo and Booking.com — are also promoting rentals near World Cup stadiums. Renting out houses, apartments and rooms in Los Angeles and Inglewood is... Read more

We are currently at a major inflection point where the easy growth of the early 2020s has been replaced by a much more technical, disciplined market. Here is why those...

In February 2026, multifamily rent prices remained flat as the average U.S. advertised rent stagnated at $1,740, according to the Yardi Matrix Multifamily...

FIFA World Cup organizers expect more than 150,000 extra visitors to flood the Los Angeles area during eight World Cup games this summer, and all of them are going to...

Many of us use or work with rental housing in some way. Maybe you have been — or are currently — a renter. Or maybe you own a rental property, operate a property...

February 2026 Rental Market Recap

The rental market is starting 2026 the same way it ended 2025: soft, but with one encouraging sign underneath the numbers. Year-over-year rent growth sits at -1.4%, the national vacancy rate has hit a new high of 7.3%, and median list-to-lease time has stretched to 41 days. At the same time, renter urgency is ticking up for the first time in over three years. The slow conditions that defined 2025 have followed the market into the new year. Rents dipped again in January, empty units hit a record high, and it’s taking longer than ever, 41 days on average, to go from listing a vacant apartment to signing a lease. Things haven’t turned around yet. But there’s one number worth... Read more

Across the United States, the gap between the cheapest and most expensive cities in a single state has become a defining feature of the rental landscape, not an...

As multifamily heads into 2026, the industry is shifting from experimentation to execution. After several years of layering new tools and testing AI-driven solutions,...

TikTok and other social platforms are making it dramatically easier for fraudsters to learn, buy, and scale rental application fraud, and operators who rely on manual...

KEY TAKEAWAYS US multifamily rent growth slowed to 1.4% year-over-year in January 2026, down from 1.6% in December. 67.6% of US metros saw monthly rent increases, while...