Current Reports

Small Multifamily Investment Trends Report Q3 2025

Arbor’s Small Multifamily Investment Trends Report Q3 2025, developed in partnership with Chandan Economics, examines the factors behind the continued upward trajectory of the sector amid an ongoing capital markets recalibration. Several of its core performance metrics, including valuations, originations, and credit standards, have shown measurable improvement as a multifamily market-wide normalization takes shape. Supported by strong fundamentals, small multifamily stands tall despite economic uncertainty.

Analysis

U.S. Multifamily Market Snapshot — August 2025

The U.S. multifamily market stood on the cusp of a new cycle at the halfway point of 2025, as demand continued to be driven by favorable demographic trends and a structural need for housing.

Articles

Small Multifamily Continues Steady Price Growth

Small multifamily valuations realized positive year-over-year growth in the second quarter of 2025, demonstrating the sector’s ongoing resilience in an unsettled economic environment. Steady rent growth, improving operating expense ratios, and stable cap rates helped move price growth into positive territory.

Articles

Metro-Level SFR Rent Growth Trends in the First Half of 2025

Albany, NY, and many other affordable mid-sized metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) outpaced the national rent growth average for single-family rental (SFR) properties in the first half of 2025, according to an analysis of Zillow’s Observed Rent Index, which tracks the 100 largest markets in the U.S.

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Larger Buildings and Smaller Units: How New Multifamily Completions Continue to Evolve

Driven by high construction costs, land constraints, and rental affordability, developers are increasingly prioritizing smaller units in higher-density multifamily properties. Utilizing data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual Survey of Construction, the research teams at Chandan Economics and Arbor Realty Trust have analyzed how the characteristics of new multifamily properties continue to evolve.

Finance

10 Items to Have on Hand for the Fastest Financing Possible

In today’s constantly evolving market environment, partnering with a lender that can balance prioritizing speed of execution with tailored solutions makes all the difference in securing the financing you need. Arbor’s experience, expertise, and innovation, combined with our willingness to understand each deal and work to make it successful, set us apart from other multifamily lenders. In our more than three decades of closing deals, we’ve found that having these 10 items on hand at the beginning of your borrowing journey helps prevent roadblocks and streamlines the entire financing process.

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Chris Moser

Vice President, Acquisitions and Originations
Chris Moser

Chris Moser originates all of Arbor’s loan products, including Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, SFR Construction and Permanent Portfolio Loans, CMBS, Private Label, Bridge, Mezzanine and Preferred Equity. He also supervises the origination and management of equity investments made by affiliates of Arbor in the BTR and SFR space.

Mr. Moser joined the Arbor family of companies in 2019 as Director of Acquisitions for ArborCrowd, an equity investment platform that provides syndicated investments to accredited high-net-worth investors. In January 2023, he became Director, Acquisitions and Originations at Arbor, expanding his role to focus on Origination.

He has more than 16 years of real estate industry experience, previously holding positions at Hunt Investment Management and Hunt Mortgage Group, where he focused on investing across the capital stack in various property types with a focus on multifamily. In that role, he underwrote, structured, and closed subordinated debt positions in ground-up multifamily developments and equity investments in ground-up development, value-add and core-plus investments across the U.S. Previously, he spent four years at Ernst & Young in their transaction real estate group providing advisory and valuation services to property owners.

Mr. Moser earned a Bachelor of Finance and Master of Accounting and Information Systems Analysis at Lehigh University’s College of Business, receiving High Honors.

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