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Read More »Market Trends: Best Places to Invest in Single Family Rentals
A new annual Rent Report tracked national rental trends in from December 2017 to January 2018, including the 10 cities where rent is the highest in the nation.
Read More »Rising Rents Leading to Increase in Homelessness
A report correlating rising rents and homelessness has accurately predicted the recently released point-in-time counts by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Read More »With Tight Inventory, Rents are on the Rise
New data shows rents are steadily increasing, and with increasingly tight housing inventory, those rents will likely get even higher as potential buyers are driven toward renting. Experts expect rents to increase 1.5 percent by the end of the summer. They’ve already grown more in five months of 2017 than all of 2016 combined.
Read More »Home Price Appreciation: What it Means for the Market
Dr. Richard K. Green, Director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, discusses with MReport the effects of home price appreciation, obstacles to homeownership, and other areas of the housing market.
Read More »Want to Rent an SFR Property? It’ll Cost You
Rents for properties backing single-family rental (SFR) securitizations continued their increase from their prior contractual rents, according to a recent report.
Read More »Owning is Cheaper than Renting in Most States
The combination of rising rents and rock bottom mortgage rates have made it cheaper to own a home than to rent a single-family home in most states, a recent survey showed.
Read More »High Rents May Force Buyers Into the Market
The increasing cost of rental housing is prompting a larger number of consumers to go searching for a home to buy.
Read More »Rising Rents Motivate Homebuyers to Enter the Market
A Redfin survey shows that potential homebuyers are being ushered into the housing market for two reasons: life events and rising rental rates.
Read More »Survey: Rising Rents to Continue Challenging Homeownership
Late last year, real estate firm Zillow reported that renters living in the United States paid a cumulative $441 billion in rents throughout 2014, a nearly 5 percent annual increase spurred by rising numbers of renters and climbing prices. Results from a more recent survey conducted by Zillow and Pulsenomics suggest that rent prices will continue to be a problem for the aspiring homeowner for years to come.
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