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U.S. Multifamily Market Snapshot — May 2025

The U.S. multifamily market continued to settle into a normalized cycle, despite ongoing uncertainties surrounding the global economy and labor market. There is a rising tide of optimism for the sector ahead and investors are continuing to take advantage of market opportunities.

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Dr. Sam Chandan Dissects What’s Driving Top Market Growth

In a rapidly evolving economic environment, the top markets for multifamily investment tend to shift quickly. In this video, Dr. Sam Chandan, founding director of the C.H. Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business and founder of Chandan Economics, discusses the findings of Arbor’s Top Markets for Multifamily Investment Report Spring 2025, which was developed in partnership with Chandan Economics.

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Top Markets for Rental Demand Growth

Population growth, a critical factor in assessing rental housing demand, increased 0.9% in the U.S. during 2024, the fastest annual rate since 2008. However, growth rates were much higher for many markets, especially those in Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas. As first explored in Arbor’s Top Markets for Multifamily Investment Report Spring 2025, we dive deeper into metro-level population growth in markets with at least 500,000 residents to find the nation’s top markets for rental housing demand growth.

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Arbor Recognized for Excellence from Agency Partners

Arbor’s platform of diverse multifamily financing solutions, combined with our strong industry relationships and our commitment to accuracy and close collaboration with our government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) partners, drives us to the top of the multifamily lender rankings year after year. Through decades-long relationships with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA, our best-in-class team delivered results for our borrowers in 2024, propelling Arbor to the top of the partner rankings.

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Renters See Apartments as ‘Forever Homes’

Today’s renters are in it for the long haul. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s recently released 2025 SCE Housing Survey shows that the average renter thinks there is a two-in-three chance they will rent for the foreseeable future. With home prices and interest rates unfavorable to would-be homebuyers, we explore renters’ perceptions and how they could impact future rental housing demand.

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Top Markets for Multifamily Investment Report Spring 2025

Arbor’s Top Markets for Multifamily Investment Report Spring 2025, developed in partnership with Chandan Economics, is your roadmap to the best locations to deploy capital. Based on the findings of our exclusive Multifamily Opportunity Matrix, this in-depth analysis assesses economic strength and market capabilities to navigate evolving conditions of the top 50 largest U.S. metros.

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Louis Sarube

Managing Director, Structured Asset Management
Headshot of Louis Sarube, Senior Vice President, Structured Asset Management

Louis Sarube is responsible for the overall analysis of Arbor’s loan portfolio. His primary responsibilities include loan valuation and the restructuring and workout of senior, mezzanine and bridge loans. Other responsibilities include identifying and implementing value-enhancement opportunities and coordinating loan activity to ensure compliance with CLO requirements for the company.

Prior to joining Arbor, he served as Director, Real Estate Finance, for UBS Investment Bank/Dillon Read Capital Management. In this role, he closed billions in transactions and was responsible for originating, underwriting, structuring and closing commercial fixed-rate, bridge and floating-rate loans.

Previous to that role, Mr. Sarube served as President and Chief Executive Officer at LPS Real Estate Analyst Inc., where he performed complete underwriting due diligence for loans originated by UBS Investment Bank. In addition, he held positions with Parallel Commercial Capital, LLC and Aetna Life Insurance Company.

Mr. Sarube holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Bryant University.

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