2020 U.S. Apartment Market Outlook eBook
RealPage® Chief Economist Greg Willett and Market Analyst Adam Couch have compiled an essential resource for multifamily owners, investors, operators and industry analysts, based on their popular webcast, “2020 U.S. Apartment Market Outlook.”
You’ll find insights on key performance drivers, the deliveries surge, signals of slowing economic growth, occupancy and rent growth across metros, investment activity and more.
Learn about the 2020 knowns and unknowns they’ve identified that can help your portfolio and investment strategy like completion spikes and rent change trajectories. Following is an excerpt:
Expect product moving through initial lease-up points to rent discounts at brand-new properties. Among lease-up properties offering rent concessions, a price discount of roughly 10% was typical in late 2019. That’s about five weeks of free rent on a one-year lease. Those giveaways will most likely go deeper. In some of the busiest building centers, it wouldn’t be surprising to see two months of free rent become standard at lease-up properties by the time we get to prime leasing season.
