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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
Multifamily completions moderated from historic highs in 2025 after a record-setting 2024. Despite the decline, large multifamily properties accounted for 59.4% of...
The data for investors is clear: National multifamily headlines are averaging out a story that isn’t average at all. Asking prices for U.S. multifamily...
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...
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 apartment hunting. One property manager wrote that they were offering one month of free rent. Another offered two. “I even saw some places doing three months, three and a half months free,” Comans said. This is what a renter’s market looks like, said Zillow senior economist Kara Ng: “Renters, this is your year.” The typical asking price for rent nationally is now rising slower than wages and inflation — 1.9% year over year in April, according to Zillow. By contrast, the latest inflation report, in... Read more
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...
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...
In conventional multifamily, it’s easy to assume that competition is driven by what residents can see: upgraded finishes, new amenity packages or the latest design...
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...
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