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Breaking: Fed delays rate cuts? All in on multifamily?
Comments this week from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are among the most forceful indications yet that interest rate cuts may be delayed past initial expectations. While some extreme predictions push the rate cuts all the way out to March 2025, futures data is pointing closer to September (at the moment). These shifting interest rate…
GO >CPI, Interest Rates, and Blackstone
A 3.5% annual jump in CPI inflation numbers has led investors and experts to rethink their expectations of an interest rate cut in mid-year 2024, but Blackstone’s recent agreement to acquire Apartment Income REIT Corp. for $10 billion could spark greater investment activity in spite of elevated interest rates, especially given the improving fundamentals in…
GO >Getting Excited about a “Normal” Market
Markets in the Northeast and the Sun Belt continue to get attention, along with mountain locales like Idaho and Montana, but affordability is a significant draw for Midwestern markets like Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
GO >Renting vs. Buying – Suburbs vs. Downtown
Costs for homebuyers have been growing at more than twice the rate as rentals, making renting a more affordable option. Buoyed by recent data on apartment fundamentals multifamily investors are re-entering the market, undaunted by persistent high interest rates, last year’s sluggish rent growth, and projections of elevated supply through the end of 2024.
GO >Fed Keeps Rates Steady (and High)—Multifamily Impacts
The Federal Reserve has thus far not deviated from its projections of 3 federal funds rate reductions in 2024, but it is in no hurry to start. While current elevated rates are not ideal for multifamily borrowers, multifamily investors with a longer-term view of the apartment market and housing demand have markedly increased their intentions…
GO >Grant Cardone’s Take on the Multifamily Market
Grant Cardone shares his inimitable insights on the current state of multifamily investment and specific markets across the country.
GO >Cap Rates, Interest Rates, and Multifamily in 2024
Cap rate trends and interest rate trends have come under the spotlight, with several reports on the topic as well as specific developments that will play a major factor in how the economy progresses.
GO >Yardi Matrix’s Paul Fiorilla on the Most Important Trends in the Multifamily Market in 2024
Gray Report host Spencer Gray speaks with guest Paul Fiorilla, Director of Research at Yardi Matrix, and reviews the most important trends affecting the multifamily market in 2024.
GO >Multifamily Borrowers Not out of the Woods Yet
Single Family Rentals and the Multifamily Market
Single family rentals are a growing portion of the housing market, and while the single family market is correlated and connected to multifamily performance, single family rentals are not necessarily a competitive threat to the multifamily market.
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