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Tenants at apartment complexes operated by Greystar, the largest owner and manager of apartments in the US, don’t just pay rent. They pay a mass of fees that many renters have never heard of before. These add-ons include “boiler management fees”, “variable refrigerant flow fees”, “solar rebill” fees, even “lifestyle fees”. Tenants and lawsuits in multiple states call many of these fees inflated, illegal, predatory or overwhelming. “A fee for this, a fee for that was just crazy to me,” Nichole Collins, a former tenant at a Greystar-managed building in Colorado, said. “I had never experienced that before.” Long lists of fees are common at buildings operated by... Read more
KEY TAKEAWAYS US apartment occupancy reached 95.5% in May 2026, extending a five-month recovery that has lifted occupancy 90 basis points since year-end 2025. Rent...
Key Takeaways On-time payments came in at 83.8% in June, little changed from May’s revised estimate of 83.9%, suggesting that the recent recovery in rent...
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...
The supply-and-demand setup in the Chicago metro is as good as it has been in a decade, says Galen Faurot-Pigeon, industry principal, multifamily, for Real Estate...
A new renter majority is taking shape across the U.S., and it is forcing multifamily owners to rethink everything from site selection to amenity packages as shifting demographics and rising expectations redefine the business. At the GlobeSt. Multifamily Owners Summit, industry executives said today’s renter base looks fundamentally different than in past cycles, with students, essential workers, retirees and former homeowners all playing a larger role in demand. During a fireside chat moderated by John Sebree, senior managing director and head of real estate investment sales at Lument, panelists described how those changes are driving investment decisions and operational... Read more
The national median rent increased by 0.5% in May, and now stands at $1,379. This marks the fourth straight monthly increase, as the market enters the busy summer...
What Happened: Consumer prices rose 0.5% month-over-month in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, easing slightly from a 0.6% gain in April. On a 12-month...
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 The West became the most popular region for apartment hunters in Q1 2026, placing 11 cities in RentCafe’s top 30 renter demand rankings. Minneapolis...
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