Not 2007 by a Long Shot, But Apartment Sales White Hot - CoStar Group

Going into the fourth quarter, multifamily sales have already bested 2010 total sales volume by more than $1 billion. The $33 billion in multifamily sales in the first three quarters are up 70% year-over-year compared to the first three quarters of 2010.

And the momentum is not slowing down, said Erica Champion, senior real estate economist for CoStar Group in a presentation at CoStar's State of the U.S. Multi-Family Market - Q3 2011 Review & Forecast this past week.

Still, Champion added, while it appears that the apartment investment sales market is white hot, this year's sales volume is still dwarfed by 2007 -- the peak year for investment activity. For example, in New York, Washington DC and Los Angeles, activity is only about one-third of the unusually high level of sales activity that occurred in 2007, Champion noted.

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