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Best budgeting apps for landlords start with a personal finance tool that keeps day-to-day spending under control, then add a property-specific platform once per-unit accounting becomes necessary. PocketGuard does the first job better than almost anything else on the market, and tools like Stessa, Baselane, Landlord Studio, and Avail handle the second job once a rental business grows past a side hustle. Most guides aimed at landlords skip straight to property management software and miss a basic truth: a landlord is a person first. Before worrying about Schedule E categories or tenant portals, it helps to know where the money goes every month — and a personal budgeting app solves that,... Read more
Tenants at apartment complexes operated by Greystar, the largest owner and manager of apartments in the US, don’t just pay rent. They pay a mass of fees that many...
KEY TAKEAWAYS US apartment occupancy reached 95.5% in May 2026, extending a five-month recovery that has lifted occupancy 90 basis points since year-end 2025. Rent...
Key Takeaways On-time payments came in at 83.8% in June, little changed from May’s revised estimate of 83.9%, suggesting that the recent recovery in rent...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani barreled into City Hall vowing to tackle the city’s notoriously high cost of living, partly by fulfilling a campaign promise...
The supply-and-demand setup in the Chicago metro is as good as it has been in a decade, says Galen Faurot-Pigeon, industry principal, multifamily, for Real Estate Business Analytics (REBA). According to REBA, multifamily deliveries are at a decade low and the under-construction pipeline is down about 25%, setting up the market for sustained rent growth. Per REBA Benchmark, its real-time rent and occupancy dataset, the Windy City leads the Midwest with 2.6% year-over-year rent growth through March, ahead of Minneapolis-St. Paul at 1.9%; Kansas City, Missouri, at 1.4%; and Indianapolis at 0.4%. In addition, REBA notes it’s the fourth-highest rent growth market in the nation, coming in... Read more
A new renter majority is taking shape across the U.S., and it is forcing multifamily owners to rethink everything from site selection to amenity packages as...
The national median rent increased by 0.5% in May, and now stands at $1,379. This marks the fourth straight monthly increase, as the market enters the busy summer...
What Happened: Consumer prices rose 0.5% month-over-month in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, easing slightly from a 0.6% gain in April. On a 12-month...
With leasing traffic peaking and residents spending more time outside, curb appeal, comfort, and daily upkeep can make or break the experience—turning simple...
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