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18,000 + 4,000 + 50,000 = A Lot of Units

Salt Lake City and Utah’s multifamily market is making headlines with over 18,000 units currently under construction. The Wasatch Front has seen close to 4,000 year-to-date unit deliveries. Occupancy rates have declined …

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Bringing It All Back Home

A permanent pedestrian mall in downtown Salt Lake City on Main Street? Really? Hopefully. A personal note: my son attended the University of Iowa in Iowa City. As one of his college tours, we arrived late on a Friday night for events that weekend. We checked in to …

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Thawing Out

A fantastic treatise on the status of the multifamily sales market in 2Q2024. The article puts today’s market in perspective relative to how divergent the sale of multifamily properties has been over the past three or four years, all stemming from the …

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Real Estate Cycle Defined

From JP Morgan Chase, the real estate cycle broken down with a focus on multifamily investing. The article stresses absolute importance in understanding the real estate cycle as a means to project returns and define future value. The article addresses …

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Staying Put

Redfin provides an interesting statistic: ending in 2022, the percentage of renters who stayed in their units for 10+ years increased from 13.9% in 2012 to nearly 17% in 2022. There were similar increases in other lengths of rental terms. One of the reasons is …

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Reward Your Residents

I’ve been advocating for months the importance of owners retaining their existing residents. We’re in a sea change of new units coming online, occupancies are flat or declining, rents have plateaued and concessions are back. A few months ago …

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More Units

Ms. Carol Nelson is a highly respected multifamily property management professional in Utah. So when Carol talks, you need to listen. Carol cites strong economies and vast recreational opportunities as two of the primary drawing cards in attracting people …

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Unique Multifamily

The article focuses on three major trends occurring in multifamily at this time: the supply/demand imbalance, economic unpredictability, and demographic changes. Ms. Marcie Williams, CEO of RKW Residential, a firm that manages 33,000 units …

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Prop Tech in 2024

I know that not all older properties can be retrofitted to accommodate technology upgrades regarding HVAC, security and internet access. But many can, and should, as 90% of 172,000 survey respondents ranked high-speed internet as their #3 priority …

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