Teleworking factored significantly in renter preferences, according to a survey released last week by NMHC/Grace Hill—a trend that is expected to carry into 2022 and beyond. The desire for single-family rentals also made the list.
Fed policy is critically important to interest rates and January has marked a shift in the Fed policy outlook. In not so many words, the Fed sees itself hiking rates and decreasing its bond purchased more quickly than previously expected.
The new report, released yesterday, shows that Chicago apartment rents had by the end of January increased by 15.6 percent when compared to the same month a year earlier.
The pandemic’s second year witnessed a robust rebound in rental housing demand, which reduced vacancies and propelled rents higher. Lack of for-sale inventory kept many higher-income renters in their apartments, while the same lower-income folks who suffered the greatest COVID-related job losses were also most rent-burdened.
Delinquency rates for mortgages backed by commercial and multifamily properties declined during the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the new Mortgage Bankers Association’s latest CREF Loan Performance Survey.
In its U.S. Multifamily Outlook for Winter 2022, Yardi Matrix forecasts that the fundamentals of the multifamily housing business will remain strong in 2022 as the wider economy continues its recovery.