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Opinion: You Can Thank the Legislature for Your Next Big Rent Increase
By Scott Cook No one likes a rent increase, but as with all expenses, it is normal for rents to increase over time. While reasonable rent...
Jul 18, 20203 min read
Homebuilding Is Still a Shadow of Its Pre-Recession Self
The latest numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau show that construction starts of single-family homes in July were at 876,000 units on an ...
Jul 18, 20201 min read
Fewer Americans Are Buying Houses, Keeping Demand High for Apartments
Home ownership rates fell in the second quarter nationally, suggesting renter demand will remain strong in the high-flying U.S. ...
Jul 18, 20201 min read
San Diego Apartment Sales Up in First Half of 2019
Demand for San Diego’s apartments remains largely inelastic, owing in great measure to the relative lack of construction compared with...
Jul 18, 20201 min read
Short-Term Apartment Rental Startup's Valuation Hits $1 Billion
Sonder, a short-term apartment rental company based in San Francisco, completed a $210 million round of Series D funding and is now ...
Jul 18, 20202 min read
Investors Pay $77 Million for a Chance to Not Raise Apartment Rents
In a rare reversal of the usual strategy, investors have bought an aging New York City apartment tower with plans to convert all the...
Jul 18, 20202 min read
Apartment Owners Adapt As Short-Term Rentals Show No Signs of Checking Out
Once-resistant developers and apartment operators nationwide are beginning to embrace the short-term rental business as a way to add a ...
Jul 18, 20201 min read
Landlord Alert!
C.A.R. OPPOSES SB 329 (Mitchell) because it effectively forces ALL residential rental property owners to participate in the voluntary...
Jul 18, 20203 min read
Apartment Deliveries in San Diego Down Notably in the First Half of 2019
Even in a widely recognized undersupplied housing market, only 954 market rate apartment units delivered across San Diego in the first...
Jul 18, 20202 min read
Developers Go Out on a Ledge to Question Whether Apartment Balconies Are Necessary
From New York to Los Angeles to Toronto, surging demand for apartments is encouraging builders across North America to try to put more...
Jul 18, 20202 min read
Prop 10 2.0 would likely drive rentals from market, lower values, says LAO
A statewide rent control measure targeted for 2020 would likely drive rental units from the market, decrease apartment property ...
Jul 18, 20201 min read
Rent control is looming again.
A statewide rent control bill that passed out of the Assembly last week remains the wrong answer to our housing crisis — both across...
Jul 18, 20201 min read
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