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.
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- Mar 25
- 4 min
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
- 3 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 3 min
Homebuying activity slumps to lowest level since 1995
A lot of homebuyers are calling it quits after mortgage rates topped 7%.
- Apr 10, 2023
- 3 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 3 min
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, 2023
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
Moody’s Finds 'Little Evidence' of a Housing Bubble
Climbing mortgage rates, coupled with already unaffordable housing will finally crack housing demand.
- Aug 10, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
The Economy Has Changed; Has The Built-For-Rent Business Changed With It?
“Will rents drop as home prices slide backwards?”
- May 9, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
Are Institutional Investors Helping Sink the Home Market?
institutional investors purchased 18.2% of US homes in the third quarter of 2021
- May 3, 2022
- 10 min
Spring 2022 Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com Emerging Housing Markets Index
The Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com Emerging Housing Markets Index
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
We Are Not In A Housing Bubble, Says Economist
We Are Not In A Housing Bubble, Says Economist
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