2025 has gotten off to an unusually volatile start for apartment demand on a month-over-month basis. Despite these early fluctuations, longer-term trends are uniformly positive. Both over the last twelve months, and year-to-date through April, national net absorption has continued along an upward trajectory that began in 2023. Encouragingly, the continued improvement has been widespread…
This year’s opening quarter included multiple interesting developments that will have ramifications for multifamily performance as 2025 unfolds. Outside the industry, in just the first few days of April, seismic U.S. trade policy changes are just beginning to make their early impact felt. As has been the case for the last handful of years, there…
The last three months have been encouraging for the multifamily industry and provide some early cause for cautious optimism looking forward.
Just one month into the new year, there are already interesting developments occurring in multifamily performance.
2024 was a key step in the right direction for the multifamily industry. In the face of historic new supply pressure, the decline in national average occupancy was smaller than in 2022 or 2023. Net absorption showed robust annual improvement for a second straight year. Average effective rent growth for new leases more than doubled…
Incredibly, another year is about to be in the books. The massive quantity of new multifamily supply this year was arguably the headline metric for 2024. Right behind, though, would be the substantial improvement in apartment demand. This year continued an upward trend that began in 2023, but on a more impressive scale. All numbers…
With the end of the year rounding into view, it is a perfect opportunity to spend some time evaluating recent rent performance.
Despite remaining challenges, the third quarter featured some reasons for encouragement in the industry performance data.
2024 has been an interesting year for the multifamily industry, and there have been some interesting developments at the price class level.
