The National Association of Realtors just declared we’re in “a new housing crisis.” They’re not wrong, but they’re also not telling you the whole story. January home sales collapsed 8.4% from December. That’s the biggest monthly drop since February 2022 and the slowest pace since December 2023. Sales hit just 3.91 million units (annualized), down…
Industry leaders gathered at IMN’s Single-Family Rental Conference in Scottsdale recently, and the prevailing sentiment was notably cautious. Across conversations with operators, investors, and developers in the SFR, build-to-rent, and multifamily space, a consistent theme emerged: softening demand, decelerating job growth, and restrictive immigration policies are creating genuine headwinds for both household formation and rent…
WIRED reported that 80-90% of real estate agents now use AI tools for listing creation. The results are predictably terrible: fake video walkthroughs showing doors that lead nowhere, virtual staging with furniture floating six inches off the floor, AI-generated property descriptions that contradict the actual photos, and “staircases to nowhere” that would make M.C. Escher…
National data confirms what we’re seeing on the ground in the Sunbelt: the rental market has split into two separate economies, and the gap is widening. Every week, our leasing team fields inquiries from prospective residents who have read the headlines about falling rents. They have seen the national data showing 29 consecutive months of…
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