{"id":149306,"date":"2021-11-22T11:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.bluevaultpartners.com\/?post_type=news&p=149306"},"modified":"2021-11-22T11:40:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:40:30","slug":"is-it-time-to-worry-about-multifamilys-slowing-rent-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qa.bluevaultpartners.com\/is-it-time-to-worry-about-multifamilys-slowing-rent-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Time to Worry About Multifamily\u2019s Slowing Rent Growth?"},"content":{"rendered":"
November 11, 2021 | Erik Sherman | GlobeSt. com<\/p>\n
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The pace of apartment rent growth is slowing, according to a report from RealPage. While it seems to be a seasonal issue, the news comes at a bad time for multifamily investors and property owners as rising inflation creates a greater need for investment hedging.<\/p>\n
First the good news: Year over year, rents were up 13.1%. That compares to average annual rent growth between 3% and 4% during the last decade, the report noted. In 2015, prices jumped a bit more than 5%.<\/p>\n
But, RealPage also reported that asking move-in rents were up in October 6% over September, the slowest pace since February. <\/p>\n
The company called this \u201cthe normal seasonal pattern,\u201d but other forces are in effect as well, such as progress in dealing with Covid-19 and uneven progress in pandemic rental assistance reaching tenants and then landlords. Also, in some major markets where vacancy rates went up as people bailed out, rental rates dropped, meaning a lower baseline that could make a return to normalcy look like growth when it was regaining lost ground.<\/p>\n