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The tenant screening market is competitive with numerous tenant screeners (aka consumer reporting agencies or CRAs) battling for business from property managers and landlords. In an effort to win more business, tenant screeners may opt for creative marketing strategies. However, not every idea is a good one. One example is sending consumer eviction information on postcards to unverified organizations in an effort to solicit business. This exact practice allegedly occurred in the case Clermont v. National Tenant Network, Inc. and LCIJ, Inc. The plaintiff filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court of New Jersey against the tenant screening firms alleging violations... Read more
A stronger-than-usual spring leasing season has given the U.S. single-family rental market a boost, although annual rent growth remained well below last...
Multifamily completions moderated from historic highs in 2025 after a record-setting 2024. Despite the decline, large multifamily properties accounted for 59.4% of...
The data for investors is clear: National multifamily headlines are averaging out a story that isn’t average at all. Asking prices for U.S. multifamily...
KEY TAKEAWAYS Austin and San Jose lead Apartments.com and CoStar’s US multifamily market momentum index for year-over-year improvement as of Q2 2026. The index...
National single-family rents declined 1.6% year over year during the first half of 2026, marking the first sustained national slowdown since the post-pandemic rental boom, according to a mid-year report from rentometer.com The report focuses on median rents for 3-bedroom single-family homes in 1,099 cities nationwide. Single-family home rentals house 41% of the U.S. renter population, and three-bedroom single-family homes are a preferred option for many families and investors. The data set includes over 10 million new rental records annually, based on advertised asking rents, which serve as the foundation for the market reports. The U.S. single-family rental market continued to cool... Read more
Virginia’s new “Clean Slate” law, effective July 1, 2026, significantly expands the availability of criminal record sealing and introduces new compliance...
Manhattan and Brooklyn rents have reached new highs as the cost of living continues to rise across New York City. A report from the Corcoran Group found that the...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani released the highly anticipated findings from his administration’s “Rental Ripoff” hearings on Thursday and laid out a list of ways that the...
In Nashville, Tenn., the landlords come to you. At least, it looked that way from the texts showing up on Mason Comans’ phone a few months ago when he was...
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