Apartment Demand Soars

Demand for apartments continues to soar. RealPage, Richardson, Texas, reported the nation’s occupied apartment count jumped by more than a quarter-million units during the third quarter.

Net Lease Sector Cap Rates Reach New Lows

The Boulder Group, Wilmette, Ill., said single-tenant net lease cap rates fell to new lows for all three asset classes in the third quarter.

Student Housing Trends: A Q&A with JLL

MBA NewsLink interviewed JLL Capital Markets Senior Director Teddy Leatherman and JLL Valuation Advisory Senior Vice President Kai Pan about the current state of the student housing market and what might be in store for the sector.

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“Commercial and multifamily mortgage performance has improved considerably since the worst of the downturn. The stress that entered–and remains–in the market is largely concentrated in lodging and retail properties, with fewer new loans becoming delinquent and shrinking balances of overall delinquency as lenders and servicers work out the longer-term troubled loans.” –Jamie Woodwell, MBA Vice President of Commercial Real Estate Research.