Current Reports

Affordable Housing Trends Report Spring 2024

As housing costs spiral, rental affordability has become a more urgent issue, burdening a greater number of Americans. Arbor’s Affordable Housing Trends Report Spring 2024, developed in partnership with Chandan Economics, examines the major policies and programs shaping the marketplace at a time when overdue federal funding expansions have increased agency budgets.

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What Is Driving Lifestyle Renter Demand?

Lifestyle renters — those who have the means to own but prefer to rent or are willing to pay more for apartments with amenities — have become a key driver of rental demand in single-family rental homes, build-to-rent communities, and other types of high-quality multifamily housing. With this small yet influential demographic growing, our research teams examine and explain the factors driving lifestyle renter demand.

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Build-to-Rent Well-Positioned to Fill Housing Market Gap

With nearly one-fifth of multifamily properties now over 65 years old, it’s time to consider solutions for rejuvenating the rental housing stock in the U.S. While building rehabs are a tried-and-true solution, build-to-rent (BTR) is an alternative that is well-positioned to expand as Americans increasingly favor renting over homeownership.

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U.S. Added 514,000 New Rental Households in 2023

In a year when inflation and elevated interest rates weakened affordability, the rental housing sector strengthened and expanded. An analysis of newly released U.S. Census Bureau Housing Vacancies and Homeownership data shows the number of rental households climbed in 2023.

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ARBOR’s Single-Family Rental (SFR) Fixed-Rate Term Financing

Arbor offers flexible permanent financing solutions for long-term stabilized rental income.*

ELIGIBLE PROPERTY TYPES Portfolios (minimum of 5 units per loan) of:

  • Single-family homes
  • Townhomes
  • Row homes
  • Condos
  • 2- to 20-unit multifamily properties
  • No owner-occupied units
ELIGIBLE LOCATIONS All states, except for Nevada
ELIGIBLE BORROWER Must be a newly formed, single-purpose, bankruptcy-remote Delaware LLC
LOAN TERM 5-, 7-, and 10-year
MINIMUM LOAN AMOUNT $1.5M
MAXIMUM LTV 75% (30-year amortizing); 70% (full-term interest-only)
MINIMUM DSCR 1.20x
INTEREST RATE Fixed
OCCUPANCY REQUIREMENTS 90% occupied at rate lock
LEASES Minimum 12-month leases
CASH MANAGEMENT Typically required for loans above $25M
PREPAYMENTS/ASSET RELEASES Subject to either yield maintenance or step-down prepayment penalty structure
RECOURSE Loans above $5M are non-recourse; loans $5M and below can be recourse or non-recourse
SPONSORSHIP Established track record, appropriate net worth, and liquidity commensurate with the transaction
PRICING Based upon loan and property specifics

*All final terms are subject to underwriting discretion that typically follows a review of the deal structure and a full due diligence package.

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