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.
A recent research report found that about 60 percent of the REIT CEOs analyzed saw their compensation rise by 3.3 percent, based on the median change from 2016 to 2017.