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Owning a home has long been part of the American Dream. But in the country’s 250th year, many Americans feel the goal, a milestone of adulthood and a marker of financial success, eludes them. Homeownership is something many people still aspire to. More than half (58%) of respondents said they’d need to own a home to feel they’d achieved the American Dream, according to a CNBC and SurveyMonkey American Dream Pulse Survey, second only to reaching financial stability. But housing prices, borrowing costs and homeownership expenses are high. While homeowners can still build long-term wealth through their properties, experts say amassing equity can take longer today than it did... Read more
By Nate Bernstein, Managing Attorney of LA Real Estate Law Group. Hiring a property management company can relieve an owner of many of the day-to-day responsibilities...
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 most dangerous leasing signal word when reviewing your leasing performance is “fine.” It can show up when occupancy reads high, the lead count looks full, and...
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 year’s pace, according to Cotality’s latest Single-Family Rent Index. National single-family rents increased 1.3% year-over-year in May, down from the 2.6% annual growth recorded in May 2025. Looking only at the spring leasing season, however, rents rose 2.2% between February and May, topping gains of 1.9% during the same period last year and 1.4% in 2024. “The May data tells two different stories,” Molly Boesel, senior principal economist at Cotality, said in the report. Annual rent growth remained... Read more
KEY TAKEAWAYS Austin and San Jose lead Apartments.com and CoStar’s US multifamily market momentum index for year-over-year improvement as of Q2 2026. The index...
National single-family rents declined 1.6% year over year during the first half of 2026, marking the first sustained national slowdown since the post-pandemic rental...
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...
Let’s talk about the phone. With all the new AI assistants, chatbots, and automated answering strategies, it’s easy to think the traditional phone call is a...
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