Reporting on investor activity in the single-family home market continues at a fevered pace. Stories and articles commenting on what is perceived to be an alarmingly high level of home purchases by investors – especially large institutions – seem to be everywhere, with no shortage of glib commentary on what this must mean for the … Continued

Economic headlines offer a confusing mixed bag lately. A wide range of indicators show surprising strength in everything from jobs, wages and personal savings to home sales and apartment demand. The economic downturn triggered by COVID-19 turned out to be shortest recession in American history. But one narrative remains stubbornly negative: a looming “evictions tsunami.” Media … Continued

NRHC Launches New Website Promoting Build-for-Rent HousingInforms consumers, policymakers and media about benefits of growing sector Washington, D.C. (July 13, 2021) – The National Rental Home Council (NRHC) unveiled today the first comprehensive website dedicated exclusively to sharing information about build-for-rent housing: Buildforrenthomes.com. At a time when new home ‘for sale’ construction has not kept … Continued

Large single-family rental home companies have attracted attention for the size and scale of their portfolios of homes as well as their home-buying activities. As the story goes, these companies have an outsized presence in neighborhoods and communities across the country and their excessive purchases of homes serve to disadvantage individual homebuyers.  The reality is … Continued

The boogeyman isn’t who you want it to be. By Jerusalem Demsas The fundamentals of low supply of houses, low mortgage rates, and the entry of millions of millennials into the housing market armed with higher personal savings help explain most of why the housing market has careened out of control over the past year. … Continued

Washington, D.C. (June 8, 2021) – Throughout the COVID pandemic, Americans have looked to housing as a way to shelter from uncertainty while adjusting to new realities of working and schooling from home. For many, those realities brought a new urgency to the search for housing that led to a widespread acceleration in migration patterns … Continued

Washington, D.C. (June 2, 2021) – New data released by the National Rental Home Council (NRHC) show markets served by large single-family rental home companies have rates of homeownership that are higher than markets where companies do not have a presence. Further, over the most recent five-year period, rates of homeownership in markets served by … Continued