According to Yardi Matrix, investors have been most interested in smaller apartment properties that target working-class residents, mostly because these properties have the potential for higher rent growth. When investors purchase these properties, they tend to have lower rents even though they sit in markets with above-trend rent growth.
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Commercial Real Estate Market Trends
The disparity in the price increases between renewals and new leases isn’t an accident. Many apartment operators try to thread the needle between introducing higher rates to existing residents while trying to keep them in their apartments.
Bidding wars have long been a staple of boiling real estate markets, where buyers compete with offers above the seller’s listing price. Today, these contests are becoming more common in the rental market.
Millions of Americans, especially younger generations, are unable or unwilling to purchase their own homes. Reasons may include a lack of downpayment or poor credit, while other potential buyers are waiting for the market to soften and interest rates to go down.
Millennials could be the next wave of real estate investment property owners. According to a recent report from Harris Interactive, 55 percent of millennials said they were interested in real estate investing.
U.S. asking rents are at an all-time high, and in some metros, more than double the average growth