by Kim O’Brien While we are still firmly in the most prolific apartment building cycle in U.S. history, supply volumes have finally peaked. The first time apartment supply volumes hit a historic peak was back in 2nd quarter 2023, when quarterly completions surpassed 100,000 units for the first time since RealPage Market Analytics began monitoring the market […]
By: Emily Fu Trammell Crow Residential (TCR), part of Crow Holdings, has initiated construction on Alexan Peabody, a 180-unit luxury multifamily residence in Peabody, Massachusetts, slated for completion in Q4 2025. Located along Route 1 at 128 Newbury Street, the development offers studio to three-bedroom units, including 25% affordable housing at 80% of Area […]
By Richard Berger Operational costs for apartment companies grew by 8.6 percent on average year-over-year in the second quarter of 2023, according to a new report from Marcus & Millichap. Effective rents rose at nearly twice the pace of expenses during the yearlong period ending in June 2022, but those trends inverted over the following […]
By Erik Sherman Green Street last month reported that overall smaller sales in various markets were showing greater strength than larger ones. They’ve lost sales volume, but at a much smaller rate than larger properties. Multifamily was one of the two stars of the pandemic in sales, values, and increasing rents. (Industrial was the other.) But how […]
By Bendix Anderson Apartment developers are finding ways to pay for new construction projects–without using loans from traditional banks. For years, multifamily developers have relied on large, short-term loans from banks to finance the construction of new apartment buildings. But rising interest rates and a string of banks failures—most prominently Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank […]
By Konrad Putzier Apartment buildings, long considered a real-estate haven, are emerging as the next major trouble spot in the beleaguered commercial-property world. Investors bid up the prices of multifamily buildings for years, attracted by steadily rising rents and the prospect of outsize returns. Many took on too much debt, expecting they could raise rents fast enough to […]
By Ashley Fahey Although loans backing office properties are the most scrutinized these days, a wall of debt is also maturing within the multifamily sector in the coming years. And while multifamily continues to be seen as one of the safer asset classes, already, there’ve been recent examples of loan defaults on multifamily portfolios, including four […]
Yardi Matrix expects distress to increase. By Paul Bergeron | February 21, 2023 at 08:22 AM It’s a bit of same ol’, same ol’ for now in multifamily deal-making two months into 2023 – not a whole lot. “Buyers are cautious, facing higher financing costs and downgraded projections of future rent growth,” writes, Paul Fiorilla, director of research, […]
By Paul Bergeron | January 20, 2023 at 03:27 PM CP Capital says it’s best to focus on the future for multifamily investors, where fundamentals depict a bright outlook, coming off the past two volatile years that saw 2021 break records and 2022 pull back some. The firm says the abundance of “dry powder” waiting on the sidelines […]
In an inflationary environment, many investors flounder as pulling the trigger on investments of any kind can feel like higher stakes. The questions are endless. With rising interest rates, falling returns and concerns about recession, where are our dollars best placed to serve our long-term financial goals? Will I need to keep this cash more liquid in […]
