U.S. News & World Report doesn’t hand out the top spot lightly. When it was named Brunswick County, NC, the number one county Americans are considering relocating to, it wasn’t based on feel-good marketing; it was low taxes, a temperate climate, genuine recreational amenities, and an increasingly diverse employment base. For rental property owners in…
The headline looks encouraging. National multifamily rents grew 0.6 percent year over year in January, according to the latest CoStar data, pushing the average asking rent to $1,713 and ending five consecutive months of flat or declining figures. That positive trendline is real, but it masks a split-screen rental market where geography determines almost everything….
The headlines are calling it “relief for renters.” For rental investors, the right word is recalibration, and how you respond to it will separate disciplined owners from the ones quietly bleeding cash through elevated vacancy. Zillow’s January data puts the typical asking rent at $1,895, up just 2% year-over-year. That’s the slowest annual growth rate…
Most landlords look at job announcement headlines and think “good news for the economy.” The smarter move is to look at the specific industries, specific counties, and specific wage levels involved, and then ask a more important question: who are these new workers, and where are they going to live? This week, five major companies…
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