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KEY TAKEAWAYS Sun Belt metros including Austin, Fort Myers, and Phoenix are seeing declining rents and aggressive concessions as new apartment supply outpaces demand. Coastal and Northeast markets such as San Francisco, New York, and parts of Virginia are posting some of the nation’s fastest rent increases amid tighter inventory. The growing divide between oversupplied and undersupplied apartment markets is reshaping leasing strategies for renters, owners, and multifamily investors nationwide. The US apartment market is splitting into two distinct stories this spring. In supply-heavy Sun Belt metros, renters are gaining leverage through lower effective rents and generous concessions,... Read more
Verification failures usually come from inconsistency, overreliance on one data point, or skipping identity checks too early in the leasing process. The strongest angle...
Settlement Discussions Taking Place with U.S. Department of Justice The lawsuit, Darby Development Company, Inc. v. United States, filed in the U.S. Court of Federal...
Multifamily marketing is undergoing a fundamental transformation, prioritizing the raw and real over the polished and professional. The latest SatisFacts Online Renter...
TurboTenant’s State of the Rental Industry Report for 2026 highlights a split in the rental property market and an interesting nuance: independent landlords and why...
There is a particular irony in the current state of the multifamily industry. The same technological forces that have made property management faster, more scalable, and more data-driven have also handed bad actors a significantly more powerful set of tools. Generative AI can now produce convincing fake pay stubs, bank statements, and identity documents in minutes. The good news is that technology is also the most promising tool available for combatting these new threats. Understanding how requires a clear-eyed look at how bad actors are operating, how operators are responding, and what the gap between those two things still looks like. Organizations of all portfolio sizes are encountering... Read more
Evicting a resident is always a stressful operational hurdle, but when that resident has a disability, the professional stakes go through the roof. Property managers...
After racking up almost 2,000 violations, two Bronx landlords have been ordered to pay tens of millions of dollars in penalties over the conditions of their...
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...
KEY TAKEAWAYS Apartment concessions rose to 16.9% of stabilized units in March 2026, the highest since 2014. Class C apartments led with a 21.5% concession rate,...
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