Apartment market performance has generally remained solid throughout the pandemic, in turn attracting more capital interest to the sector and away from other CRE alternatives such as office and retail. As capital concentrates in many of the nation’s primary markets, there has been an increase in investors chasing yield in alternative markets.
Join RealPage experts Jay Parsons and Carl Whitaker in a discussion with very special guest Jim Costello, SVP of Real Capital Analytics, about capital market trends, questions and topics including:
- Overview of apartment market fundamentals and how performance levels are influencing capital market trends
- How have capital market trends changed in response to the pandemic, and what changes are here to stay?
- Insights into market-specific trends and what’s driving investment activity in different pockets of the country
- What lies ahead for apartment investment – potential headwinds and tailwinds that may impact investment activity going forward
- Which “Zoom Towns” are seeing increased apartment capital flow, and which might have long-term staying power?
Jim is chief economist on the MSCI Real Assets team and is based in New York. He is the principal author of the US Capital Trends report series and a frequent speaker at commercial real estate conferences. At Real Capital Analytics, which MSCI acquired in 2021, Jim was a leader for analysis across the commercial property universe. He also spent two decades at Torto Wheaton Research working on issues of real estate risk and forecasting. Jim is a member of the Commercial Board of Governors of the Mortgage Bankers Association and a member of The Counselors of Real Estate.
Jay Parsons
SVP & Chief Economist, RealPage, Inc.Jay Parsons serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Economist for RealPage, leading the Economist and Industry Principal teams to provide deep insights on market trends and consumer behaviors. He is a frequent author and industry speaker on topics affecting multifamily apartments and single-family rentals, including rental housing investment and asset management strategy, rental housing policy issues, risk mitigation and property management.
Jay has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, The Economist, and The New York Times, and he has appeared on CNBC and BloombergTV. His commentaries have been published by Barron's, the Pension Real Estate Association, the Mortgage Bankers Association, the National Apartment Association, American Banker and GlobeSt.
Carl Whitaker
Senior Director of Research & Analysis, RealPage, Inc.Carl Whitaker is a Real Estate Economist with RealPage’s Data Analytics division. At RealPage, Carl has specialized in creating industry presentations, market and submarket trend reports and crafting ways in which data can be more easily consumed and leveraged by clients. Carl holds degrees from the University of North Texas, including a Master of Science in Applied Geography.
