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Commercial property insurance prices have been on the rise everywhere, especially in the climate-affected states. These are the states that deal with frequent extreme weather events such as wildfires, hurricanes, or blizzards. Because of these larger increases in insurance price, it is starting to become an issue for commercial property owners to both start new developments or to try to...

SB721Throughout the pandemic multifamily owners in California saw a 2-year delay in physical and economic terms. With situations like this, this can play into why SB721 was put into place. Through SB721 California multifamily owners must have their balconies inspected and there are now deadlines for this. The first deadline is to have balconies inspected before or by January 1,...

Throughout the past two-and-a-half years, we have seen asking multifamily rents climb at the fastest pace on record, at 21.7%. But with this, the asking multifamily rents have now fallen month-over-month for the first time since May 2020. The Fed has been aggressive with rising interest rates to combat inflation. These rising rates will eventually take its toll on the...

More and more San Diego renters have been falling into homelessness. To combat this, there will be new tenant protections.    There will be more consistency with the Tenant Protection Act of 2019. Through this, renters will receive additional notices such as the definitions for “No Fault” and “At Fault Termination of Tenancies” so that the terms are clear to both the...

The estimated 12-month personal consumption expenditures (PCE) through October was 6% (as seen below). Inflation is still uncertain over the next few years. Forecasts show significant decline over the next year, but it has also been projected to do so multiple times in the past and did not, so it is still uncertain. To get on a path to inflation...

Report Data Courtesy Due to an easing economy, rising interest rates, and less demand for multifamily units, multifamily asking rents have finally declined in November. National asking rent has now fallen to 7% year over year. For November, the average U.S. asking rent for multifamily decreased by $9 to $1,729 (as seen below). This is the largest decline over one...

From September to October asking rents went up by only 0.16%. While this is a very small increase (and another month of deceleration in rental growth), it is actually expected to be around that at this time of the year. The month over month rental increase for this time before Covid was actually on average about 0.08%. So, when looking...

COSTAR INSIGHT San Diego Adds More Jobs, Loses More of Its Labor Force Apple Still in Hiring Mode By Joshua Ohl CoStar Analytics November 21, 2022 | 2:38 P.M. San Diego’s unemployment level shifted upward during October, to 3.2%, according to the latest report released by the California Employment Development Department. That compares to California’s unadjusted statewide unemployment rate of 3.8%. Although San Diego added 14,000 to nonfarm...

56 of 136 markets forecasted in the United States saw month over month declines. The United States as a whole had month over month average asking rents increase only by one tenth of a percent for September. That is the lowest increase for September since 2017. There have been 18 months of record-breaking average rent increases that have now come...

Currently 42% of Chula Vista housing is rental housing. 44% of renters in Chula Vista pay over 50% of their income on rent. 47% of Chula Vista’s households are considered to be lower income. Many of the Chula Vista renters applied for the COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) to get help paying rent. Along with this, Chula Vista’s rents...

For September of this year the average asking national asking rent was $1,718, the same rate as it was in August (as seen in the graph below). With this, rents are still up 6.6% from the start of the year. Typical rents are usually up by an average of 2.9% when it gets to September, so 6.6% is still a...

The overall average U.S. asking rents have decreased by $1 (or 0.1%) in August down to $1,718 (as seen in the graph below) and year over year growth has actually decelerated by 170 basis points to 10.9%. This decrease in rent is the first time since June of 2020 where there hasn’t been growth in the market rents. This slowdown...

Asking rents have gone up 19.5% in the past 12 months for the San Diego multifamily market compared to the national average of 14.3%. San Diego rents have also increased 2.2% in the second quarter alone up to $2,275 per month (as seen in the graph below). High demand to live in San Diego has been causing these increases in...

The San Ysidro Boulevard Apartments offers a unique two parcel development opportunity with seven (7) existing conforming units and three (3) additional non-conforming units as well as a vacant front structure with a code violation. The offering consists of 10 operating units: two (2) 2+1s; six (6) 1+1s; two (2) studios plus parking income generating over $23,850 per month. There...

Source: Lee & Associates Research In the words of Ben Franklin, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”1 While neither can be avoided, both can be delayed and, with regard to taxes, can be minimized. In preparation for the next tax season, this report will explain how property owners, whether commercial or residential, can mitigate...

Source: Yardi Matrix Multifamily National Report - Summer 2022, in link here. While multifamily rents have decelerated from the record highs in 2021, they are still in the double-digit growth percentage through mid-year. The average asking rent increases are expected to grow to 7.9% by the end of the year. Due to the ever so strong performance in the multifamily sector,...

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