Rent Growth May Finally Be Losing Some Steam
National monthly average effective rent growth was above 1% again in May, but cracks in momentum may be emerging.
National monthly average effective rent growth was above 1% again in May, but cracks in momentum may be emerging.
One of the markets in which apartment demand has been resilient so far this year relative to the national cool down has been Orlando.
National average occupancy and rent growth continued to look strong in April, but a continued decline in apartment demand is the story.
Strong rent growth continued in March at the national level, but so did a more recently developed trend – declining apartment demand.
One of the leaders in rent growth over the last year has been the Tampa market, and it appears those gains are beginning to pressure demand.
As part of our look back at 2021, we consider the markets that led the nation in apartment demand for the year.
2021 has been a year of historic apartment demand and rent growth nationally, and Greater Houston certainly has not been an exception.
Apartment demand has cooled off compared to earlier in the year, but monthly absorption remains higher than anything seen in recent years.
In what has been a remarkable bounce back year for multifamily, the DFW market has been the leader in both new supply and apartment demand.