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Sep 7, 20224 min read

Build-For-Rent: Why ESG Is So Important For Institutional Investment Acquisitions

ESG initiatives have risen to the forefront of how consumers and SFR rental home investors evaluate possible business investments.

Mar 25, 20244 min read

Built-To-Rent Projects Draw $3 Billion in Fresh Investment as Homebuyers Struggle

A $3 billion wave of fresh investment into built-to-rent housing is spotlighting demand early in 2024

Jan 7, 20243 min read

Warren Buffett’s Latest Investments Show He’s Betting Big on the Housing Market4 MIN READ

When you’re not only one of the richest men in the world, but one with an investing track record that’s produced billions of dollars

Nov 6, 20232 min read

The Rise of Build-to-Rent Homes in the DFW Housing Market

The DFW housing market has experienced a significant decline in home sales

Sep 27, 20233 min read

Homebuying activity slumps to lowest level since 1995

A lot of homebuyers are calling it quits after mortgage rates topped 7%.

Apr 10, 20233 min read

Goldman Sachs: U.S. homebuyers likely see 'modest' impacts from bank crisis

The cost of buying remains prohibitive relative to conditions that prevailed just two years ago

Apr 3, 20232 min read

Here's the price difference between renting and owning a home

Economists say mortgage rates — especially if they continue to climb — will play a huge role in what options homebuyers have state to state.

Jan 7, 20233 min read

Housing: Existing home sales drop for 8th straight month in September

Sales of previously owned homes fell for the eighth straight month in September as mortgage rates marched higher

Jan 3, 20234 min read

What’s Driving Build-to-Rent: Wall Street or Main Street

Build-to-Rent single-family homes is a trend that emerged after the Great Recession.

Aug 19, 20222 min read

Rents in US Rise at Fastest Pace Since 1986, Buoying Inflation

Rents are soaring across the country as would-be homebuyers get priced out by the fastest-rising mortgage rates in decades and slide back in

Aug 19, 20221 min read

Built-to-rent homes offer more options for would-be home buyers

Sky-high prices and rising mortgage rates are pricing more would-be home buyers out of a dream-home.

Aug 19, 20222 min read

Homebuyers are canceling deals at the highest rate since the start of the pandemic

Americans are canceling deals to buy homes at the highest rate since the start of the Covid pandemic.

Aug 11, 20222 min read

Moody’s Finds 'Little Evidence' of a Housing Bubble

Climbing mortgage rates, coupled with already unaffordable housing will finally crack housing demand.

Aug 10, 20224 min read

Does Institutional Ownership of SFRs Help or Hurt the Housing Sector?

The SFR boom has gotten some critical coverage, mostly around the impact of the growth of institutional ownership and on home pricing.

Jul 28, 20228 min read

The Economy Has Changed; Has The Built-For-Rent Business Changed With It?

“Will rents drop as home prices slide backwards?”

May 9, 20222 min read

Home affordability is nearly the worst on record as mortgage rates spike

The vast majority, 95%, of the 100 largest U.S. housing markets are now less affordable than their long-term levels

May 4, 20222 min read

Are Institutional Investors Helping Sink the Home Market?

institutional investors purchased 18.2% of US homes in the third quarter of 2021

May 3, 202210 min read

Spring 2022 Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com Emerging Housing Markets Index

The Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com Emerging Housing Markets Index

Apr 26, 20223 min read

Renters are so fed up with their homebuying options that they say they'll rent forever

The Fed study reflects growing pessimism among aspiring homebuyers

Mar 20, 20222 min read