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U.S. rents are rising more quickly and fewer apartments are sitting empty, but elevated concessions show that many landlords have not yet regained meaningful pricing power. The typical asking rent increased 2.2% year-over-year to $1,965 in June, according to Zillow. At the same time, 39.7% of rental listings offered a concession, up from 35.2% one year earlier. The seemingly contradictory trends reflect a rental market beginning to tighten but still digesting the inventory delivered during the recent apartment construction boom. Completions declined further during the second quarter while absorption continued rising, slowing the growth in available units. Existing properties... Read more
The typical U.S. asking rent rose to $1,965 in June, up 2.2% annually, according to the Zillow Observed Rent Index. 39.7% of rentals on Zillow offered a concession in...
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...
Tenants push for tougher rules against unfair add-on charges. Industry players argue against policies that they say could limit the ‘effective use of fees.’ Across...
Deciding which amenities to include in modern apartment buildings continues to grow in importance for multifamily developers and owners. Amenities essentially elevate...
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
In Nashville, Tenn., the landlords come to you. At least, it looked that way from the texts showing up on Mason Comans’ phone a few months ago when he was...
Smart apartment owners and operators are pouring money into marketing, but too often they are chasing noise instead of net operating income. At this year’s...
It’s as close as you can get to living in the clubhouse,” says Nicholle Soendker, director of residential marketing for Cordish Living, which developed several...
Apartment amenities have long been treated as an arms race—flashier, trendier and more eye-catching than the competition. But that approach is starting to look...
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