Rental Vacancy Rose to 7.6% in the Third Quarter as Homeowner Vacancy Held Steady
New Census figures show a higher share of vacant rental housing than a year earlier, while the apparent rise in homeownership was not statistically significant.
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Rental Vacancy Rose to 7.6% in the Third Quarter as Homeowner Vacancy Held Steady
New Census figures show a higher share of vacant rental housing than a year earlier, while the apparent rise in homeownership was not statistically significant.
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Rents Post Their Biggest Jump in a Year as Home Sales Cool Early
Zillow's September market report shows rent growth hitting its fastest pace since April 2025 even as buyer activity for owner-occupied homes slips into an early seasonal slowdown.
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NexMetro Opens Its 25th Build-to-Rent Community in Metro Phoenix
Avilla Foothills adds 108 detached rental homes in Surprise, part of a pace of roughly one new community a month for the company in the Phoenix market this year.
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A Tucson Family Sold Its Mobile Home Park for the First Time in 54 Years
Desert Classic Mobile Home Park traded for $26.13 million, about $95,018 a space — among the highest per-space prices on record for an all-age Tucson park.
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Seattle Banned Pet Rent, Package Fees and Administrative Charges 8-0
The council's unanimous vote targets the gap between an advertised rent and what a tenant actually pays each month — but the ban does not bite until mid-2027.
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USF Broke Ground on a $500 Million District With 717 Student Beds and 152 Apartments
The project is described as the largest public-private partnership in the history of Florida's state university system.
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Willow Bridge Became the Fourth Landlord to Settle the Government's Rent-Algorithm Case
The July filing in the RealPage antitrust action continued a pattern of landlords settling one at a time while the software vendor's own decree awaited court approval.
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Justice Department Reached a Fifth Landlord Settlement Over Algorithmic Rent Pricing
Pinnacle would be barred from algorithmic coordination and from exchanging competitively sensitive data with competitors.
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Two Washington Landlords Paid $9.3 Million to Settle the District's Rent-Algorithm Suit
The DC attorney general said RealPage-linked pricing tools touched roughly 60% of units in the city's large apartment buildings.
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Nine States Settled With LivCor for $7 Million and Bought Its Cooperation
The property manager agreed to stop using any software that aligns rents using competitors' confidential data.
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Invitation Homes Sold More Houses Than It Bought and Spent $600 Million Buying Back Its Own Shares
The largest single-family rental landlord disposed of 657 homes against 196 acquisitions, redirecting capital to a stock it evidently considered cheaper than housing.
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Independence Realty and Centerspace Agreed an $8.1 Billion Apartment Merger Spanning Three Regions
The all-stock combination would hold more than 44,000 units with 58% of income from the Sunbelt, 27% from the Midwest and 15% from the Mountain West.
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Student Housing Was 89.1% Preleased for the Autumn Term, With the Midwest Leading and the West Behind
Advertised rents held at $930 a bed for a sixth consecutive month even as occupancy commitments ran a full point ahead of last year.
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AMH Delivered 651 Newly Built Rental Houses in a Quarter Rather Than Buying Them
The single-family landlord's in-house construction programme is now its principal source of new homes, at a time when acquiring from the resale market has grown politically fraught.
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New Jersey Became the Fourth State to Ban Algorithmic Rent Pricing
The FAIR Act, signed July 20, prohibits software that pools competitors' nonpublic rent and occupancy data, and takes effect July 1, 2027.
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Homeownership Held at 65% in the Second Quarter While Under-35 Ownership Fell
The Census Bureau's quarterly vacancy survey found the national picture almost unchanged — except among the youngest owners, where the decline cleared the significance test.
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Apartment Operators Reported Tighter Markets and Tighter Capital in the Same Survey
The NMHC quarterly survey's market tightness index jumped to 57 in July while its three capital-markets indexes all fell below the breakeven line.
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Apartment Deliveries Have Fallen for Six Straight Quarters as Demand Holds
RealPage counted more than 187,000 units absorbed in the second quarter against an annual supply figure down sharply from its late-2024 peak.
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Build-to-Rent Occupancy Fell More Than Two Points Over Three Years
A three-year data series through the first quarter of 2026 shows rents in the build-to-rent segment peaking in 2025 and annual growth reaching zero.
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Landlords Filed 1.23 Million Eviction Cases Across Tracked Cities in 2025
Filings slipped slightly from the prior year, but Atlanta's rate reached 25% of renter households and greater Austin's filings rose 30%.
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