While apartment owners are experiencing rising demand amid falling home ownership rates, they also face more competition as houses and condos go on sale at below-cost prices and other dwellings get moved to the rental...
When you're considering investing millions of dollars in an apartment property, you want to know everything you can about how that property performs compared to industry averages. There are two challenges to measuring...
These days the political consensus seems to be that everyone deserves the American Dream, no matter what the cost. Record-high home ownership rates seem to trump everything. Is there a housing bubble? Who cares, say...
The continued surge in housing prices has fueled a debate over whether they have reached unsustainable levels. Whether prices can continue to rise not only affects current and prospective homeowners, but it also has...
The condo market is hot. Sales of condos and co-ops have reached record levels, and prices continue to climb. Traditionally, rental providers have viewed condos as competition since condos have historically offered a...
Conventional wisdom tells us that low interest rates and government incentives are driving homeownership rates up, and that those increases are bad news for apartments. Not so, according to analysis by the National...
Until recently, the apartment sector was praised for showing remarkable discipline in limiting new construction. Now, with higher vacancy rates and no significant drop in construction, many have concluded that the...
For the apartment industry, 2000 looked much like a “highlights” reel of previous years, featuring moderate new construction, strong occupancy, and solid earnings growth. The NMHC 50 — the annual listing of the nation...
The current economic expansion, just a few months shy of its 10th birthday, is the longest on record. This kind of longevity tends to create two separate camps of thought: There are those who expect the good times to...
