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Silent stress is building in the multifamily market and you’d be hard‑pressed to see it in the usual numbers. On paper, rents look solid and buildings are full. Yet a recent post from Colliers points to a different story playing out behind the scenes, where effective rents are slipping, refinancing is getting tougher and more assets are quietly making their way onto lender watchlists even as headline metrics suggest everything is fine. The pressure is coming from a familiar combination: heavier concessions, thinner cash flows and capital stacks that were built on a much stronger post‑pandemic rent narrative than the market has actually delivered. Colliers describes a... Read more
National Rent Growth Trends Multifamily rent growth remained soft in April, though the latest data suggest that conditions are no longer broadly worsening. Annual...
The tech market is driving interest in the Bay Area. Multifamily vacancy as a whole in the region dropped by 80 basis points to just 3.4 percent, according to a new...
The rising threat of fraud in multifamily, where it is coming from, and a practical guide to protecting revenue, reputation, and resident experience. Fraud remains...
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...
In L.A.’s high-stakes rental market, where tenants and landlords regularly go to war over housing disputes, renters have filed more than 115,000 complaints to the city Housing Department since 2013. Now, a new dashboard shows the worst offenders. Called the Top 100 Problem Rental Properties, the new tool launched by City Controller Kenneth Mejia shows the properties with the most housing violation cases, as well as their owners. Mejia said he wanted to pressure landlords to comply with the law — and pressure the city to punish the ones who don’t. “This project comes at a time when tenants are reporting harassment and illegal evictions violating the City’s Rent Stabilization... Read more
KEY TAKEAWAYS Sun Belt metros including Austin, Fort Myers, and Phoenix are seeing declining rents and aggressive concessions as new apartment supply outpaces...
After racking up almost 2,000 violations, two Bronx landlords have been ordered to pay tens of millions of dollars in penalties over the conditions of their...
Chandan’s Economic April data shows the independent rental market starting to stabilize. On-time rent payments increased to 84.5%, marking the sixth gain in the...
KEY TAKEAWAYS Apartment concessions rose to 16.9% of stabilized units in March 2026, the highest since 2014. Class C apartments led with a 21.5% concession rate,...
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