Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Why All Is Not (Uniformly) Rosy in the Apartment Sector - NREIonline.com

Multifamily properties have outperformed other commercial property types in the past two years, benefiting directly from the continuing travails of the for-sale housing market.

Occupancies and rents have improved consistently, in seeming defiance of slow economic growth and the lethargic pace of job creation. Signs of weakness have begun to appear, however, for certain segments of the apartment market, suggesting that even the best performing property type in real estate nowadays is still subject to fundamental economic rules.

Unlike the office and retail sectors, which sport vacancies unseen in two decades, the apartment sector has bounced back impressively. After hitting a 30-year high of 8.0 percent at the end of 2009, national vacancies have plummeted to 5.6 percent by the third quarter of 2011, and are expected to dip below 5 percent by early 2012. Asking and effective rents have both posted gains on a consistent quarterly basis since the start of 2010.

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