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.
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.
The Price of Prestige: Tech Employees’ Living Costs in Silicon Valley & Seattle
Even the famously generous tech salaries in Silicon Valley are not enough to compensate for California’s expensive housing and high tax burdens, particularly relative to tech employees working in less expensive and lower-tax states like Washington.
February Market Report: Peeking at Home Value Peaks
Median home values in more than a quarter of the nation’s metro housing markets are currently, or were recently (within the last year), at peak and as high as they’ve ever been, according to the February Zillow Real Estate Market Report. But what do home value peaks really mean?
Hunger Games: Builders Keep Serving Up More Apartments, Renters Keep Scarfing Them Down
Renters currently have an insatiable appetite for newly constructed units, quickly gobbling up record numbers of recently opened new apartments.
The latest Zillow reading list features commentary on commentary on the unintended consequences of American homeownership policies, affordable housing and why, exactly, the rent is too damn high.
Housing in Alaska: Why America’s Last Frontier is Stuck in a Deep Freeze
As temperatures dip below zero and Alaskans prepare for 20-hour nights, the climate is not the only thing in a deep freeze across America’s last frontier: While housing markets in the lower 48 continue to recover strongly from the housing bust, the Alaskan housing market remains decidedly frigid.
October Market Reports: Home Value Growth Accelerates, While Rent Growth Slows
As the U.S. housing market enters the fourth quarter of 2015, the dominant trends from the first quarter have reversed. Annual home value appreciation, previously slowing down, has accelerated; while growth in rents, previously accelerating, has begun to slow down.
