March 2024 Economic Update
Hallie A • June 3, 2024
What Did we Learn at the Tail End of Q1?
Key lessons here are that each market is really telling its own story!
- The national averages are helpful, and we should be mindful of those trends and stay conservative.
- The more you focus in on an individual market, the greater the occurrence of and subsequent need for nuance.
- Most of the top 50 markets saw increases in single home rent rates.
- The multi-family market had a bit more complexity, but also a number of those markets have seen big inventory increases in multi-family properties, creating some listlessness in the data.
- Rents are still increasing year-over-year, if not as exponentially as in years past.
- We're seeing a marked increase in Move-In Specials and Deals, likely caused by an influx of newly built properties.