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A new study shows that a 30-minute delay in responding to a tour request by leasing agents reduces renter engagement likelihood from 40% to just 10%. Renter interest does not just fade gradually over days. It drops sharply in the first hour. In a market where renters are comparing multiple properties at once and can book a competitor tour instantly, response time is becoming one of the most consequential things a leasing team controls, according to the new Rently 2026 Renter Touring Expectations Report. Screen Your Tenant Today! Gain peace of mind with AAOA’s credit, criminal, and eviction reports. GET STARTED The study says 47% of renters have chosen, or... Read more
National multifamily net absorption reached its fifth-highest quarterly total in nearly 25 years, even as median asking rents continued to decline. Net absorption across...
Key Takeaways On-time payments increased to 83.2% in August, reversing some of the summer softness recorded in recent months Year-over-year, on-time collections...
Apartment demand accelerated during the second quarter, pushing national vacancy lower as household formation strengthened and renters faced renewed obstacles to...
There’s a word in our industry that has been used so widely, so indiscriminately, and for so long that it no longer transmits any information at...
By Taylor Avakian, Principal Broker & Founder of The Group CRE A couple of years ago I toured a fourplex on one of the hill streets above Sunset, a few blocks up from Echo Park Lake. Built in 1926, stucco, original hardwood in three of the four units, a garage nobody had parked in since the Reagan administration. The seller had owned it since the early nineties. The rent roll was the kind that makes out-of-state buyers close the PDF and move on. Two tenants had been there over fifteen years. One of them was paying $1,140 for a one bedroom that would have leased for around $2,200 the same week if it had been empty. I’ve changed a few details, but that building is the one I think... Read more
KEY TAKEAWAYS US multifamily rents posted a 1.4% annual increase in June 2026, up from 1.2% the prior month, according to Zillow’s index. San Francisco led metros...
If you think driving rent growth and renewals requires a large capital budget, the leasing veterans at the National Apartment Association’s Apartmentalize...
Class-C apartment operators in Chicago are buoyed by many of the tailwinds bolstering the city’s multifamily market as a whole: limited new supply, rising rent...
If you own or manage rental property outside New York, it’s easy to assume the city’s broker-fee law has nothing to do with you. I think that’s a...
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