Luxury Home Prices Up 5% in September, Twice the Pace of Non-Luxury
By Brad Beckett on November 13, 2025
New data from Redfin shows that the typical luxury home sold for $1.26 million in September 2025, up 4.8% from a year earlier and a record high for the month. Click here to read more.
Read morePets in Rental Housing: A Growing Opportunity for Property Operators
By Victoria Cowart on November 12, 2025
Victoria Cowart says well over half of U.S. households today — between 66% and 75%—own a pet. Let’s break that down in the context of rental housing. With approximately 44.5 million renter-occupied housing units in the country, and assuming 70% of these households have pets, that translates to more than 31 million pet-owning renter households. Among those, the average pet ownership per household is 1.6 dogs or 1.8 cats. Click here to read more. Click here to read more.
Read moreHouseholds Receiving Food Stamps (SNAP) by Congressional District
By Brad Beckett on November 11, 2025
With all of the recent hullabaloo (and controversy) over funding for SNAP benefits during the government shutdown, the folks at Brilliant Maps put together an interactive map of households by congressional receiving SNAP benefits (aka food stamps). Click here to read more.
Read moreZombie Foreclosures Creep Down
By Brad Beckett on November 11, 2025
According to ATTOM Data’s Q4 2025 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report, there were nearly 1.4 million residential properties in the U.S. sitting vacant in Q4. Click here to read more.
Read moreLocal Market Monitor’s National Economic Outlook for November ’25
By Brad Beckett on November 10, 2025
Local Market Monitor recently released their monthly National Economic Outlook where they share their thoughts on developments taking place in the U.S. economy. Click here to read more.
Read moreApartment List’s National Rent Report – November 2025
By Brad Beckett on November 10, 2025
According to Apartment List’s National Rent Report for November 2025, national median rent dropped 0.8% in September to $1,381 – the third consecutive month-over-month decline. Click here to read more.
Read moreApartment Owners Under Siege
By Brad Beckett on November 6, 2025
A recent article on the multifamily-industry news site Yield PRO says the assault on rentals marches on – adding to the mounting reasons the supply of the nation’s housing remains behind demand. Click here to read more.
Read moreThe Private Investigator’s Guide to Smarter Landlording
By Brad Beckett on November 5, 2025
On a recent episode of Omaha REIA’s “REIA Radio, hosts Owen Dashner and Ted Kaasch sit down with David Pickron – real estate investor, licensed private investigator, and CEO of Rent Perfect – to talk about the side of real estate most landlords don’t like to discuss: evictions, screening tenants, and the tough lessons that come with managing rentals. Click here to read more.
Read moreS&P Cotality Case-Shiller Says Home Prices are Slowing
By Brad Beckett on November 4, 2025
The latest S&P Cotality Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index has reported a 1.5% annual increase for August, 2025. Click here to read more.
Read moreChicago Overtakes Manhattan in Apartment Conversions
By Brad Beckett on November 4, 2025
A new report from Rentcafe says the wave of adaptive reuse projects is accelerating at a record pace. In 2024 the number of apartments resulting from converted buildings came in around 25k – which is 50% more than the year before. Click here to read more.
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