Apartment 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.
Read moreWho’s Buying America’s Homes?
By Brad Beckett on October 30, 2025
A recent article by Realtor.com says landlords with 1 to 50 properties control 95% of all investor inventory, confirming that rental housing remains largely an entrepreneurial activity rather than a corporate one. Click here to read more.
Read moreUnderstanding the FinCEN Residential Real Estate Reporting Rule
By David Birdsong on October 29, 2025
David Birdsong says that in 2024, the Financial Criminal Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a division of the United States Treasury Department, adopted the FinCEN Residential Real Estate Reporting Rule, with a starting date of December 1, 2025. This starting date has been pushed back to March 1, 2026, and may be pushed back further but as of today real estate buyers, sellers, investors and particularly title companies need to be aware of this rule and what it requires of real estate transactions after the date it finally begins. Click here to read more.
Read moreHUD Delays HOME Landlord-Tenant Requirements
By Brad Beckett on October 28, 2025
According to the National Apartment Association, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently announced a delay to the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME): Updates & Streamlining Final Rule, which would impose ten new federally-mandated landlord-tenant requirements for covered housing. Click here to read more.
Read moreCotality Says Single-Family Rent Growth Hits Lowest Level in 15 Years
By Brad Beckett on October 28, 2025
According to the latest Cotality (formerly CoreLogic) Single-Family Rent Index (SFRI), U.S. single-family home rental prices increased 1.4% year over year in August, 2025. Click here to read more.
Read moreInflation Up 0.3% in September
By Brad Beckett on October 27, 2025
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting that the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.3% in September, 2025. Click here to read more.
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