Rents just hit a new high but renting is still cheaper than owning in these cities

  Rents are hitting new highs, but renting is still mostly more affordable than owning a home in most big cities, according to a new report. The national median rent rose for the 16th straight month and reached $1,876 in June, a new high, according to Realtor.com’s June Rental Report. That’s pricey, but still 29.9% (or $561) lower than monthly starter homeownership costs. That’s due to higher mortgage rates pushing borrowing costs up.

The gap between the monthly payment on a starter home and renting a home widened by 25.5%, or $483, from January to June, according to Realtor.com. In more than three-fourths of the top 50 cities in the U.S., renting was cheaper than owning. Mortgage rates are approaching 6%, which is adding hundreds of dollars to a homebuyer’s monthly bill. Higher rates were the “biggest driver” of the gap between buying and renting, Realtor.com said, adding $416 on a monthly basis. The median rent for a studio grew by 15.1% from June 2021 to $1,544. A one-bedroom was $1,738; a two-bedroom $2,104. “Our analysis shows that if not for higher mortgage rates, the rent versus first-time buying gap would have shrunk in the first half of this year,” Danielle Hale, chief economist at Realtor.com, said in a statement, “as rents grew more quickly than starter home prices.” By the fourth quarter of this year, it will take a first-time homebuyer with a median income of 11.3 years to save for a 10% down payment, S&P Global Ratings estimated in a recent report, up from five years pre-pandemic. The company estimates that 60% of U.S. households will be priced out of a starter home by the end of 2025. “The American Dream may no longer be in reach,” the report’s title concluded. Looking to make a move? The top five cities where renting makes more sense than owning, on a cost basis, including Austin, San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, and San Jose, Calif., according to Realtor.com. The top five cities where buying makes more sense than renting include Pittsburgh, Birmingham, St. Louis, Cleveland, and Baltimore.

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U.S. Needs 4.3M More Apartments by 2035 to Address Demand Deficit and Affordability

Nation Faces 600,000 apartment deficit, 4.7 million fewer affordable apartments ARLINGTON, VA | July 27, 2022 – Amidst demographic shifts and lingering pandemic impacts on the population and broader economy, the U.S. faces a pressing need to build 4.3 million new apartments by 2035, according to a new study commissioned by the National Apartment Association (NAA) and the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC). Based on research conducted by Hoyt Advisory Services and Eigen10 Advisors, LLC, commissioned by NAA and NMHC, the data include an estimate of the future demand for apartments in the United States, the 50 states, and 50 metro areas, including the District of Columbia. For the purposes of this study, apartments are defined as rental apartments in buildings with five or more units. The data are available on the website www.WeAreApartments.org. Key findings:

• Shortage of 600,000 apartment homes. The 4.3 million apartment homes needed include an existing 600,000 apartment home deficit because of underbuilding due in large part to the 2008 financial crisis.
• Loss of affordable units. The number of affordable units (those with rents less than $1,000 per month) declined by 4.7 million from 2015 to 2020.  
• Homeownership. Apartment demand also factors in a projected 3.8% increase in the homeownership rate.
• Immigration. Immigration is a significant driver of apartment demand, and levels tapered before the pandemic and have remained low. A reversal of this trend would significantly increase apartment demand.
• Texas, Florida, and California. These three states account for 40% of future demand and will require 1.5 million new apartments by 2035.

“The U.S. has undergone tremendously difficult conditions that have fundamentally altered our nation’s demographics, but one thing remains certain – there is a need and demand for more rental housing,” said NAA President and CEO Bob Pinnegar. “Put simply, we do not have enough housing. The U.S. must build 3.7 million new apartments just to meet future demand, on top of a 600,000 unit deficit and loss of 4.7 million affordable apartment homes. It is time to reverse course after decades of underbuilding, and instead pursue responsible and sustainable policies that will not only meet this demand but address the missing middle and loss of affordable housing stock.” “The lack of available housing is holding our country back. Whether it is a multifamily residence, duplex or single-family home, we need a massive supply of new for sale and rental homes – including millions of new apartments by 2035,” said NMHC President and CEO Doug Bibby. “Making sure everyone has access to quality, affordable housing is a bipartisan issue, and the industry stands ready to do its part to help create the 4.3 million new apartment homes our country needs.” In conjunction with the study’s release, the website www.WeAreApartments.org breaks down the data by each state and 50 key metro areas. Visitors can also use the Apartment Community Estimator – or ACE – a tool that allows users to see the trends in their state or metro area to determine the potential economic impact locally.

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Equity Residential CEO Says Rents Will Keep Climbing Outrun Inflation

• Equity Residential CEO Mark Parrell on Wednesday said he's not sure just how high rents would get.
• But he said he expected that whatever inflation was — they'd increase by more than that.
• Parrell also said typical residents of Equity Residential's luxury units could afford increases.

As American renters continue to reel from rising housing costs, Wall Street investors are betting that housing will get even pricier relative to the costs of other goods and services. While Equity Residential CEO Mark Parrell says he doesn't know how high rents will be in the long term, he adds that they are likely to outpace inflation. One of the largest owners of rental housing in the US, Equity Residential operates more than 80,000 luxury units across 210 buildings in places from longtime hubs like New York City to pandemic hot spots like Austin, Texas. "I think you should expect that apartments, especially in our portfolio, are optimized in a way with our pricing engine that we can continue to have a real return that exceeds the rate of inflation," Parrell told analysts Wednesday on the company's second-quarter earnings call. The consumer price index — which is used to measure the rate of inflation — rose by 9.1% from June 2021 to June of this year. Economists predict it will probably level out at about 8.6% by the end of the year. If Parrell's business calculus is right, then, rents would go up by more than 8.6% in 2021. In the average year, he added, rent grows by about 3.5%. Clearly, a big difference. And some might ask how rents could keep growing after a record-shattering year in 2021 when rents across the US rose by 10.1%. Parrell cites the simple economics of supply and demand, arguing that there are still many more people who need housing than there is housing available. "With inflation the way it is, the numbers are likely to be a fair bit higher because supply and demand are still also good," Parrell said. Buoyed by increasing rents, Equity Residential reported a net income of $223.3 million with a 14.6% increase in funds from operation per share,  an alternative to earnings per share used by real-estate firms. And according to him, people are willing — and able — to pay higher rents. He said in the earnings release that his firm viewed its "affluent resident base as more resilient to rising inflation due to higher levels of disposable income and lower relative rent-to-income ratios." For instance, he said, renters of Equity Residential's units in New York City put about 18% of their income toward rent, so renters can handle increases.  A personal-finance rule of thumb is that people should spend 30% or less on rent. Population-level research, however, shows that not everyone can absorb higher housing costs so easily. According to US Census Bureau data from 2020, 46% of those polled said they spent more than 30% of their income on rent. People putting over that much of their income towards housing expenses are known as "house poor," according to Bankrate, and they may be forced to skimp on other necessities to afford a roof over their heads.

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What a Recession Could Mean for Multifamily

Limited multifamily construction will help sustain the sector even if demand cools.

Slowing construction will likely keep multifamily supply and demand in balance for some time despite fears of a recession, according to some analysts.

“Even if multifamily demand cools, limited multifamily construction will help sustain the sector,” a trio of economists from Moody’s write in a new report, adding that “housing substitutability” can transfer demand to the sector. Would-be owners of single-family homes are opting to rent instead of buy as the average property is now nearly 44% more expensive than in 2019—and that in turn is driving increased demand for multifamily units.  It’s also being amplified by the rising short-term rate and the impact of those increases on mortgage rates, and Moody notes there are already signs of markets cooling in some of the cities where prices went up most quickly over the course of the pandemic.

“Although this may not lead to a widespread slashing of housing prices everywhere, housing price declines are a real possibility in the next few quarters or years depending on how severe and how long the next recession will be if there is one,” Moody’s report notes.  “Multifamily rents, on the other hand, are generally slower to respond to rising interest rates and remain more stable. If the substitutability within housing matches the Great Recession’s strength, then multifamily rents may remain elevated for some time until single-family housing stabilizes. Based on the past few recessions, the effect on multifamily performance may not begin until near or after a recession ends.”

Low unemployment and a tight labor market are also likely to sustain multifamily demand—which was not the case in previous recessions (as in the 1980s, when unemployment topped 9%). But while household balance sheets are generally faring better than in previous downturns, disposable personal incomes are shrinking.

“As the multifamily and single-family home affordability crisis intensifies across more and more metros nationwide, this diminishing financial safety net is troubling, even for multifamily,” Moody notes. “Job losses or affordability issues could force some renters to find roommates or put off that move to single living.”

The Moody’s analysts also note that strengthened financial regulations “could be a blessing” for multifamily.

“Even if the Federal Reserve fails to engineer a soft landing this year or next, these rules will likely prevent the real estate market from sliding into a deep and long recession or suffering large aftershocks,” the trio writes. “While many single-family markets will likely see small to moderate prices decline in this situation, multifamily’s positive performance should hold up relatively longer, as in previous downturns. Overall, in a mild recessionary environment, we would expect only a moderate vacancy rate increase and rent growth to simply decelerate. A slight and short-lived dip into negative territory towards the end of the recession is possible, but a free fall is highly unlikely.”

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Source: What a Recession Could Mean for Multifamily https://www.creconsult.net/market-trends/what-a-recession-could-mean-for-multifamily/

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