Renting

As Rents and Home Values Rise in Many Markets, Is Tech Industry Really to Blame?

There is certainly a reason that many people associate the tech industry with pricey and unaffordable housing. In metropolitan areas with a large share of tech workers, rents and home values are considerably higher. But the reality is that expensive housing often follows in areas where a good share of individuals are earning high wages – whether they work in tech, finance, law, or any number of other industries associated with hefty paychecks.

Sarah Mikhitarian • Jun 30 2016

A Crack in the Code: Why Even Some Tech-Employed Renters Can’t Find Affordable Housing

Just because the average tech renter is doing OK, we shouldn’t think everyone in the field is having an easy time making ends meet.

Jamie Anderson • Jun 28 2016

Q1 2016 Breakeven Horizon: Buying Looks Increasingly Attractive as Both Rents and Home Values Tick Up

Rising rents, low interest rates and strong expected home value growth make buying a home instead of renting it an increasingly attractive financial option for those who can afford to do so.

Aaron Terrazas • Jun 14 2016

Luxury Apartment Rent Growth Slowing

After growing at a blistering pace for much of 2015, apartment rents across the county are growing at a slower pace thus far in 2016 – and the slowdown has been particularly dramatic on luxury apartment rent in higher-end ZIP codes.

Aaron Terrazas • Jun 07 2016

In Rapidly Growing Counties, Rigorous Regulation Intensifies Rising Rents

On their own, rents tend to rise more quickly in communities with the most restrictive local land-use regulations. Add rapid population growth to the mix in those same communities and the problem only gets worse.

Aaron Terrazas • May 12 2016

The U.S. Housing Affordability Crisis: How a Rent and Low-Income Problem is Becoming Everyone’s Problem

Continued deterioration in U.S. housing affordability – particularly at the low end of the market and for renters – is bringing to light a number of problems around income growth and social mobility that may have big implications for all Americans going forward.

Svenja Gudell • Apr 11 2016

Social Mobility May Suffer as Income Growth Fails to Keep Pace With Rising Housing Costs

The United States has long cherished its hard-earned reputation as the land of opportunity. But for millions working to ensure their children can move up the socio-economic ladder, rapidly rising housing costs are threatening instead to kick the ladder out from underneath them, limiting their potential social mobility.

Sarah Mikhitarian • Apr 11 2016

How Land-Use Regulation Impacts Inventory, Rents and Roommates

In many American cities, more means more – and not in a particularly good way. Tighter land-use regulation in these cities is associated with more rapidly rising rents, more acute shortages of homes for sale and more adults living with roommates in the face of rising housing costs and fewer housing options.

Sarah Mikhitarian • Apr 11 2016

South Lake Union’s Tech Boom a Small Part of Seattle’s Rising Rents

Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood has become synonymous with the city’s rapidly evolving economic and social landscape. The neighborhood has attracted major employers, and cranes crowd the skyline of the former industrial district wedged between the city’s downtown and iconic Space Needle.

Aaron Terrazas • Apr 04 2016

Making It Work in the Mile-High City: Denver’s Rapidly Growing – and Changing – Job Market

Denver today is one of America’s fastest-growing and hottest markets, a far cry from the largely rough-and-tumble and relatively slow-moving mountain metro it was even 15 years ago. And as the city has changed, so too has its job market.

Skylar Olsen • Mar 25 2016