Most rental investors track school ratings, commute times, and crime stats when evaluating a Raleigh neighborhood. Almost none of them are tracking Dix Park. That’s a mistake. Dorothea Dix Park, the 300-acre green space sitting on the edge of downtown Raleigh, drew 1.7 million visitors in the past year alone, a record. From June through…
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 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…
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