Bendix Anderson

Developers built more than 36,000 houses for rent in 2017. That’s 6 percent more than the year before and the largest number of “build-to-rent” houses completed in any year for at least the last 14 years.

Tenants today are still less dependent on automobiles than they have been in years past, especially if they live a market where they can walk to amenities.

More than a quarter of the apartment loans financed by the GSEs in 2017 qualified for the green incentive programs.

Here are the five schools in the U.S. where developers will open the most new beds of student housing for the start of the school year.

Banks provided 71 percent of all construction financing in 2017, according to data from Real Capital Analytics.

Agency lenders are making more permanent loans than ever on apartment properties.

Occupancies are unlikely to rise much higher than their current high level. And property prices are already so high they are unlikely to increase much more relative to incomes.

The new federal budget just passed by Congress includes a few changes that will strengthen the LIHTC program.