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Effective rent growth in US multifamily year to date is the best since the nation’s economy began recovering from the Great Recession, locally based Axiometrics said Tuesday. Effective rent growth rose to 3.4% in April, up from 3.1% the previous month and 3.2% year over year. The research firm credited increased occupancy and burgeoning job growth with giving apartment landlords the impetus to raise rents.

Apartment occupancy increased last month to 94.8%, a 60-basis-point rise since 2014 began. At the same time, job growth was 1.6% in March, while the national unemployment rate dropped to 6.3% in April. Accordingly, more people sought housing in what is already a landlord’s market, Axiometrics says.

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