Property Management News
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...
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 raw material. What determines whether it means anything is the work that comes after it, and that work gets far less attention than it deserves. Think about what a name is on day one. A word on a sign. A promise that has not been kept yet. If the name is ambitious, something evocative, something with an idea inside it, then it writes a check the rest of the brand has to cover. Choose a word like “curated” or “haven” or “forge” and you’ve made a claim. Now something has to make that... Read more
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...
KEY TAKEAWAYS Gen Z adults living at home represent latent rental demand in several US metros, with McAllen, TX, leading the list according to Chandan...
Owning a home has long been part of the American Dream. But in the country’s 250th year, many Americans feel the goal, a milestone of adulthood and a marker of...
Accessibility