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Just because you closed your deal doesn’t mean you can shrug off your multifamily lender. Here’s a few tips to avoid undue stress after closing on that apartment investment property.
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A closer look at the multifamily housing inventory in the United States and the size of the small cap investment opportunity.
The apartment sector has remained the darling of the commercial real estate for the past six years. This doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon, as 2016 is expected to set a new record for multifamily mortgage origination volume. While multifamily’s position as top dog remains uncontested, savvy investors are altering their strategy for sourcing Read the full article…
There’s no shortage of options when it comes to multifamily financing. Here’s five factors to consider when deciding on a commercial lender.
Coming out of the recession, apartment investors were rushing to get a hold of best in class rentals in core urban areas.
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Single-family rental starts reached an all-time high in 2022. But with homebuilding prices climbing this year, curbing construction costs has become increasingly important. By utilizing strategies, such as market site selection and smaller property buildouts, SFR developers have identified efficiencies to better manage construction costs.
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced on September 7 that it had increased the frequency of allowable surplus cash distributions with most FHA-insured multifamily mortgages. Distributions can now be taken as often as once per month, updated from two times per accounting year historically.
In this video, Chandan Economics Founder Sam Chandan discusses the key findings of our Summer 2022 Special Report, written with Arbor’s Chairman and CEO Ivan Kaufman.
The onset of the pandemic kicked off a widescale work-from-home (WFH) experiment that left the labor market structurally altered, creating significant downstream impacts on residential markets. In this brief, we will use data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey to uncover which metropolitan areas have the highest share of workers that work-from-home (WFH) due to the pandemic.
The Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book points to an increasingly robust rental housing market as its descriptions of homebuying turn bearish. The persistence of rental demand against continued inflationary pressures and higher interest rates follows a simple rationale — as housing costs rise, people still need a place to live.
In the years leading up to and through the onset of the pandemic, growing demand for single-family housing and the emergence of the single-family rental sector (SFR) has reshaped the residential landscape in the U.S. But as SFR’s share of rental households expands, its share of all single-family homes remains balanced.
Following record gains last year, the housing market may have reached an inflection point. Rents are surging nationwide as a supply/demand imbalance leaves renters and would-be homebuyers with fewer housing options. However, The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University contends in The State of the Nation’s Housing 2022 that the current torrid pace of the market might be ready to ease up, with a record number of new units under construction.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have pledged to expand their lending efforts to help improve Americans’ access to manufactured housing, affordable housing, and rural housing in recent updates to their Duty to Serve Underserved Markets Plans.
Apartment NOIs were up nearly 20% year-over-year through Q1 2022. A trio of Florida markets led the country in annual NOI growth, while New York and Phoenix trailed closely behind.
Federal, state, and city policymakers are now utilizing zoning reforms in initiatives that encourage the development of affordable housing.