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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 rankings, with 37 of the top 50 spots. RentCafe’s rankings were based on 20 key metrics, including the selection and quality of apartments available, commute times, occupancy rates, and job growth opportunities. All the metrics were given certain weights and were gathered under three main categories: cost of living and housing; local economy; and quality of life. To take the No. 1 spot, McKinney ranks third in cost of living and housing and ninth in quality of life. About 85% of the rentals are high-end, and nearly 65% are... Read more
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...
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 climate risk compress net operating income and property values, according to a new study for the Hutchins Center at The Brookings Institution. The study finds that commercial property insurance costs have been rising about 15% per year since 2019, driven by more frequent natural disasters linked to climate change, rising reinsurance costs and spillover from tightly regulated homeowner insurance markets. According to the study, authored by University of Texas at Austin PhD students Minjoo Kim, Prateek Mahajan and... Read more
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...
Naming gets all the attention. The workshop, the shortlist, the debate over the finalists, the reveal. It feels like the moment the brand is born. It is not. A name is...
Value-add apartment investors are entering a new phase in which future returns will depend far more on property-level performance than on market-driven valuation...
Many renters will continue to see more affordable rentals on the market through 2026, though that depends entirely on where you live—and whether a lot...
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