Rental Housing

Rentals Still Popular But Growth Slows
   Rental housing still prevails in the overall strength of the housing market but its impact is diminishing according to a report from rental market analysts Axiometrics. The Dallas-based firm says rental growth rate has slowed in nine of the past 10 months as demand generated by the housing market collapse continues to subside.
posted 4/3/13 12:39 PM  read complete story

Rental Housing Lures Wealthy Investors
   Increasing home prices and interest rates, coupled with the still-constricted mortgage loan backlog and rising rental rates, help drive wealthy investors to the increasingly valuable single-family home rental market. Investment firms and lenders are encouraging select clients -- those who can stay for the long term and weather financial crises -- to invest
posted 2/8/13 10:48 AM  read complete story

Scarce Housing To Push Up Rental Demand
   With five to six million new renter households anticipated in the next 10 years, strong rental demand is likely for some time as the nation’s rental stock dwindles and new construction takes time to complete
posted 1/4/13 12:14 PM  read complete story

Rental Housing Finance Examined
   A Mortgage Bankers Association white paper outlines a framework for a government role in multifamily finance intended to attract greater private capital with government-backed insurance. The move would ensure greater liquidity in all market conditions and it would be financed through risk-based premiums paid by mortgage bundlers who sell
posted 12/7/12 12 PM  read complete story

Half of Renters Financially Overburdened
   More than 20 million renters--53% of all renter households--face difficulties paying rent, the Census Bureau says in its latest American Community Survey. That’s an increase from 2010 of about 600,000 households paying 30% or more of their income for rent and utilities.
posted 9/28/12 10:28 AM  read complete story

Two-Year Life Seen For Rental Surge
   Expect the dramatic surge in multifamily construction starts to continue for another two years as more prospective credit-starved buyers frozen out of the homeowning market turn to apartment rentals, says David Shulman, senior economist with the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate.
posted 8/24/12 11:48 AM  read complete story

Town Gears Up For Rental Onslaught
   Communities across the nation are facing a problem that until recently primarily plagued urban areas, the supply and maintenance of rental housing and control of their health and safety features in the wake of the foreclosure crisis.
posted 7/27/12 10:55 AM  read complete story

Investors Eye Foreclosures To Rentals
   Families displaced by foreclosure are streaming to single-family rental homes, says data from analytics firm CoreLogic. The irony of the 1.75 million new renters is that they rent homes left vacant by other families through foreclosure
posted 7/20/12 12:37 PM  read complete story

Apartment Market Continues To Soar
   Despite weak job growth and other economic drawbacks, the apartment rental market continued to soar in May, with effective rents up 0.74% for the month and 3.29% year-to-date, says Axiometrics, a provider of data and advice on the apartment market
posted 6/27/12 4:56 PM  read complete story

Rentals Reviving Housing Market
   A new forecast from The Demand Institute (TDI) predicts that the housing market will recover over the next few years with investments in rental properties leading the recovery The report predicts that nationwide home prices will rise 1% in the second half of this year with more
posted 5/18/12 09:38 AM  read complete story