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Americans Exit the Housing Crisis with New Appreciation for Renting
Six years of crisis have changed forever the way Americans think about housing. It’s good news for rental housing and not so good news for the home ownership industry, according to a massive new study conducted by Hart Research for the MacArthur Foundation.
Continue reading…Single Family Renters More Likely to Stay in Place
Monday, February 25, 2013
Single family home tenants are 18 percent more likely than apartment tenants to stay in their current homes five years or longer, suggesting that demand for single family homes, the fastest growing rental category, will be more stable than multifamily demand, according to a new national opinion survey released today by Premier Property Management Group.
Continue reading…Lending Standards, Rising Rents Box in Single Buyers
Monday, February 18, 2013
Once the hottest trend in real estate, single homebuyers find themselves trapped between soaring rents and stiff underwriting standards that make it tough for a single income-earner to qualify for mortgages that buy homes that will cost more tomorrow than they do today.
Continue reading…Hedge Funds Shrink Foreclosure Discounts
Monday, January 14, 2013
Demand for foreclosures is so great and supplies are so low in some of the nation’s hottest foreclosure markets popular with investors that the price differences between REOs and full-price homes have virtually disappeared.
Continue reading…Built-for-Rent now Five Percent of New Home Construction
Friday, January 11, 2013
One of the hottest specialty markets in home construction is benefitting from the boom in single family rentals that began as a way for entrepreneurs to provide from the flood of foreclosures that has reached 4 million properties since 2007.
Continue reading…Homeownership Seen Threatening New Apartment Construction
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Record housing starts, bolstered by multifamily construction, is a sign that demand may not keep up with capacity and strengthening homeownership will threatening the boom in multifamily construction, according to one of the nation’s leading ratings services.
Continue reading…Freddie Mac: Homeownership to Fall Further
Monday, November 5, 2012
Just as the national homeownership rate showed signs of stabilizing over the past six months (See Has the Homeownership Rate Bottomed Out?), Fannie Mae’s Multifamily Research Group predicted today that the rate would fall another one to two points by 2015 despite the fact that the company, along with Freddie Mac, owns the mortgages for about half the single family homes in the nation.
Continue reading…Home Values Fall, Rents Rise
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Both home values and rents rose on a national basis from June to July, but in several major markets where demand for homes remains lower, rents increased more than the national median.
Continue reading…Rental Vacancies Shrink, Ownership Vacancies Rise
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Nothing shows the pendulum swinging away from home ownership and towards rentals more clearly than the latest vacancy data from the Census Bureau.
Continue reading…Apartment Rents are on the Rise
Monday, August 9, 2010
Apartment rents have made an about face during the first half of the year and they’ll continue to rise if vacancies tighten as predicted as more and more households become renters.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
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