National apartment conditions could be showing signs of improvement, according to apartment owners then responded to the National Multifamily Housing Council’s Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions.
Market Trends
With sophisticated daily pricing tools, apartments today are better positioned to respond to inflationary pressures than they were forty to fifty years ago.
With remote working increasing and oversupply a concern in urban markets, trends seem to favor suburban apartments in the future.
Renters are paying their monthly rent at near-normal levels and millions of renters haven’t been displaced as feared.
Tenants are moving to the suburbs in droves, according to CoStar’s latest apartment report, and downtown landlords are cutting rents.
Occupied apartments climbed by nearly 147,000 units, outpacing absorption in the second quarter by more than four times. Even more promising, demand in Q3 increased by 8% year-over-year.