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For apartment owners and operators, the next leasing prospect may never click through to a property website. Instead, an AI agent may scan the site, compare the community with competing options and present a renter with a recommendation before the prospect has spoken to a leasing agent. That shift is already changing the purpose of apartment marketing websites, according to Veronica Romney, general manager, and marketing suite at Realpage. Speaking last week at the company’s RealWorld conference in Denver, Romney said bot and AI-agent internet traffic has surpassed human traffic for the first time, with agentic search accounting for 57.5% of activity compared with 42.5% for... Read more
In the first half of 2026, Snappt evaluated over 700,000 rental lease applicants, more submissions than ever before, and found 3.8%, or roughly 1 in every 26, containing...
KEY TAKEAWAYS Apartment List put the August 2026 national median rent at $1,390, just $5 below its pre-pandemic trend projection. National rent growth since 2020 has...
For the second consecutive year, McKinney, Texas, has been named the best city for renters by RentCafe. In addition to McKinney, Southern cities dominated the 2026...
Apartment deal volume softened in July, but the more useful signal for investors may be emerging beneath the month’s thin transaction data: garden-style assets...
If you’re hoping for larger floor plans, the good news is that apartment sizes have increased in 2025 compared to the previous year. More precisely, floor plans currently average 910 square feet nationwide with every unit type having gained additional living space. As apartment sizes expand, much of that growth is concentrated in Southern markets, where larger floor plans remain a defining feature. Key takeaways: The typical size of apartments in 2025 increased by 13 square feet, reaching 910 square feet. All apartment types gained additional square footage with three-bedroom apartments seeing the largest year-over-year increase at 28 square feet. Tallahassee, FL, is home to the largest... Read more
Resident feedback has always been valuable, but the way prospective renters engage with it and interpret it is changing rapidly. Today’s renters are savvy...
Every lease starts as a bet between strangers. The landlord bets that the person on the other side of the application is who they claim to be and earns what they claim...
Passing on rising property insurance costs in multifamily is getting harder, and the burden is shifting from renters to owners as new supply, rent concessions and...
KEY TAKEAWAYS The Apartments.com RentPulse Index shows the first quarter since 2021 where lease-ups outpace new apartment supply, with vacancy rates stabilizing and...
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