Rental Market

Americans Opting Out Of The Dream

Reuters | Posted 05.01.2012

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Wall Street Seeing Gold In Foreclosed Homes

Reuters | Posted 05.20.2012

* Hedge funds, private equity firms eye single-family homes * Fannie's 2,500 pilot offering drawing out bidders * Skepti...

Alexander Eichler

Why It's A Terrible Time To Be A Low-Income Renter

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.14.2012

Everyone knows the economy has been rough on homeowners lately. But for people who rent -- especially for people who rent and don't make very much mon...

Thanks To The Government You Can Now Rent A Foreclosed Home

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 04.28.2012

WASHINGTON — The government is looking to sell off some of its stock of homes in foreclosure. The Federal Housing Finance Agency has control ov...

Loren Berlin

Selling Homeowners Short: Bank Strategy Backfires In Foreclosure Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.20.2012

Housing investors and advocates are embracing a new strategy to keep struggling borrowers in their homes: Purchasing houses from homeowners who can no...

Alexander Eichler

Homeless Rate Ready To Rise

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.18.2012

Although the recession has officially been over for two years, the worst may be to come for many people. Job losses rose during the last few years....

Loren Berlin

Goldman Sachs Casts Doubt On Fed Housing Proposal

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.06.2012

The Federal Reserve's foreclosure rental program would do little to lift the ailing housing market, Goldman Sachs analysts wrote in a research paper r...

Loren Berlin

Why Renting Is Better Than Owning, Bernanke's Take

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.06.2012

While millions of foreclosed homes languish on the market at lower and lower prices, new data supports the idea that renting out these foreclosed home...

U.S. Apartment Vacancies Hit 10-Year Low Driven By Lack Of Supply

Reuters | Posted 03.05.2012

* Vacancies at lowest level since late '01 * Effective rents on the rise * Rate expected to fall further this year ...

As Demand For Rentals Rises, 2012 Will Be 'The Year Of The Landlord'

Posted 12.27.2011

(MARGARET CHADBOURN, Reuters) - Brian Keith is busier than ever as the architecture firm he works for rushes to wrap up work on a 300-unit apartme...

Renting Out Government-Owned Homes Is the Right Move -- But Probably Wouldn't Make Any Difference to You

Jed Kolko | Posted 01.30.2012

Jed Kolko

Renting out REO properties would be a drop in the bucket -- it wouldn't clear much of the housing inventory and wouldn't ease rising urban rents, but it would help shore up neighborhoods where housing prices took the biggest slide, and that makes it worthwhile.

U.S. Apartment Market Rebounding Past Recovery

Posted 11.18.2011

The U.S. apartment market has recovered and is expanding, with vacancies expected to remain steady at 5.5 percent in 2012 and then fall below pre-...

Downtown Apartment Rents Surpass Pre-Recession Peak

Posted 10.16.2011

As Chicago's real estate market continues to turn away from condominiums and toward apartments, demand for (and, therefore, the price of) apartments i...

Nightmare Renters From Airbnb

Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 10.02.2011

Hemanshu Nigam

Until recently, Airbnb was not tossed around in the average news cycle. However, since a story recently broke about malicious use of rented property and Airbnb's apparent woeful management of the crisis, the name is everywhere... and not in a good way.

Taking Asset Building to Scale in Federal Housing Policy

Reid Cramer | Posted 09.25.2011

Reid Cramer

Today, we spend roughly $30 billion dollars a year in rental housing assistance to benefit almost 5 million households. It is a primary part of our social safety net. But millions of eligible families don't receive any support.

Rent After Foreclosure? Yes, You Can.

Nicholas Carroll | Posted 07.27.2011

Nicholas Carroll

News frequently portrays inability to rent as one of the gloom-and-doom scenarios awaiting people who have been through a foreclosure. In my surveys around the U.S., I'm not seeing this.

Katherine Bindley

Thinking of Moving? A How-To Guide For Renting In Manhattan Right Now

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 11.25.2011

If you're thinking about apartment hunting in Manhattan right now, my first suggestion would be: don't. My second suggestion would be: if you must mov...

Yepoka Yeebo

Rent Or Food? Soaring Costs Forcing Americans To Choose

HuffingtonPost.com | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 06.26.2011

NEW YORK -- Around 10 million American households -- or one in every four families that rent their homes -- could have to choose between paying rent, ...

Experian Now Reporting Rental Payments

Jeanne Kelly | Posted 11.17.2011

Jeanne Kelly

It came as big news to me earlier this year when I heard that Experian would now be reporting rental payments. Folks have often said to me that they ...

Renting The American Dream

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.17.2011

Lita Smith-Mines

I earn a living representing buyers and sellers of real estate, so discouraging a client from entering into a transaction was certainly against my interests.

New York Is Officially The Best And Worst Place To Rent

Posted 05.25.2011

Rent, or buy? Buy or rent?? We know you think this when you shave, when you jog, when you commute, when you everything. Luckily, Trulia.com just po...

Saudi Royals Rent Waldorf Apartment For $210K A MONTH

Crain's New York Business | Posted 05.25.2011

In the priciest sign to date that the luxury rental market is on fire, last week seven apartments at the Waldorf-Astoria were rented to the Saudi roya...

Apartment Market Strengthens, As Larger Housing Woes Mount

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

The best time to sign a lease may have just passed, as the apartment rental market has strengthened, Bloomberg reports. Good news for landlords, bad n...

America's Best Rental Values

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

Times are tight and these rentals are bargains. Zillow, one of the web's most trusted aggregators of real-estate information, scoured its listings an...

Foreclosures Boost Rental Site Listings

Bloomberg | Ari Levy and Dan Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

For Airbnb -- along with Craigslist and rival rental sites like HomeAway.com Inc. -- the threat of foreclosures is bringing a surge of listings. Local...