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Arbor Realty Trust’s latest Small Multifamily Investment Trends Report, developed in partnership with Chandan Economics, evaluates what’s driving this sector’s ongoing stability as macroeconomic conditions remain mixed. Loan originations rose last quarter, and valuations are rebounding, signaling that normalization is taking hold. Key Findings Small multifamily investment lending activity remained steady as first-quarter originations rose modestly above last year’s pace. Cap rates retreated sharply while valuations rebounded. Underwriting conditions slightly eased, with higher leverage and lower debt yields supporting credit availability. Small Multifamily Investment Trends... Read more
Key Takeaways Domestic renter mobility has dropped to a historic low of 21.6 percent, down from 26.7 percent in 2014, as more renters stay put to avoid higher costs...
Chandan’s Economic April data shows the independent rental market starting to stabilize. On-time rent payments increased to 84.5%, marking the sixth gain in the...
Seattle renters looking for a three-bedroom house with a yard are finding out the hard way that the classic family rental is quietly disappearing. What used to be a...
For almost all of human history, the word “exodus” has represented a mass departure or emigration of a large group of people from a specific location at the same...
Multifamily operators are embracing AI quickly, but integration problems are still doing more to slow adoption than ROI concerns or staff training gaps. Leasing has become the clearest first target for AI because it sits directly at the intersection of revenue, repetitive work, and resident experience. The confidence gap between property managers and executives on fraud prevention suggests application fraud may look manageable at the property level but more troubling across full portfolios. The multifamily market has rarely been simple to navigate, but the current moment presents operators with a particularly complicated set of pressures all arriving at the same time. Years of... Read more
KEY TAKEAWAYS Rental competition cooled slightly nationwide but rose sharply in Chicago, Atlanta, and San Francisco. Chicago posted the nation’s largest RCI jump,...
Renters have the upper hand in Downtown Los Angeles, with sluggish apartment rent growth motivating landlords to offer concessions and even lower rents. Rents fell...
Los Angeles landlord Michael Renkow already had a sinking feeling when one of the new tenants at his Hollywood apartment building, “Igor,” was two hours late to pick...
While many renters are still on the path to homeownership, the American dream is evolving and households are adapting their aspirations with today’s financial...
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