Housing
Podcast: Could Multifamily Crash in 2024? Really?
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GO >Gray Report Newsletter: February 22, 2024
Apartment Fundamentals Are Improving The apartment market is improving markedly from a renter’s perspective, and there are promising signs of long-term apartment market strength from an investor’s perspective as well. For renters, lower rent-to-income levels indicate that apartments are becoming increasingly affordable as wages outpace rents, and the increased apartment supply should continue this trend.…
GO >Could the Apartment Market Crash in 2024? Really?
This month’s inflation report came in slightly higher than expected, causing some worry that the much-anticipated interest rate cuts from the Fed may not arrive as quickly as previously thought. A “higher for longer” environment is one reason why some are pessimistic about multifamily in 2024, but there is little evidence for continued declines in…
GO >Gray Report Newsletter: February 15, 2024
Could Multifamily Crash? Really? This month’s inflation report came in slightly higher than expected, causing some worry that the much-anticipated interest rate cuts from the Fed may not arrive as quickly as previously thought. A “higher for longer” environment is one reason why some are pessimistic about multifamily in 2024, but there is little evidence…
GO >Podcast: Rental Housing Affordability and Millennial Suburban Migration
Listen to the latest episode of The Gray Report Podcast and stay up to date on the most important news and research in the multifamily industry, commercial real estate, and the economy. The Gray Report on Spotify The Gray Report on Google Podcasts The Gray Report on Apple Podcasts
GO >Optimism and Clarity in the Multifamily Market
Compared to the prevailing uncertainties of 2023, a better view of the multifamily market and its driving forces points to increased investment activity as the year progresses. Significant challenges remain for apartment operators in 2024, but greater clarity on apartment construction, interest rates, housing demand, and the economy, alongside pent-up demand from investors who were…
GO >Gray Report Newsletter: February 8, 2024
Multifamily Investment Picture Keeps Improving Compared to the prevailing uncertainties of 2023, a better view of the multifamily market and its driving forces points to increased investment activity as the year progresses. Significant challenges remain for apartment operators in 2024, but greater clarity on apartment construction, interest rates, housing demand, and the economy, alongside pent-up…
GO >Podcast: Optimism and Clarity in the Multifamily Market
Listen to the latest episode of The Gray Report Podcast and stay up to date on the most important news and research in the multifamily industry, commercial real estate, and the economy. The Gray Report on Spotify The Gray Report on Google Podcasts The Gray Report on Apple Podcasts
GO >NMHC Insights on the Apartment Market in 2024
The enormous amount of apartment supply expected this year should temper any expectations of apartment demand, but newly-published research on the topic argues that U.S. housing needs are far larger than can be addressed even with the historic amount of multifamily completions last year and forecasted for this year. On the capital markets side, recent data points to a substantial…
GO >One Good Year Does Not Solve America’s Housing Shortage
Source – Moody’s Analytics: “One Good Year Does Not Solve America’s Housing Shortage” Multifamily construction projects increased by 11.1% in succession, reaching a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 509,000 units. However, household formation and mobility, which were high during the last half of 2021 and early half of 2022 due to lifestyle changes, location preferences,…
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