This higher ratio value is fueled by a tight labor market, causing the demand for labor to press upward on the demand for housing. This is true in all the major metropolitan areas that CONTI tracks.
This higher ratio value is fueled by a tight labor market, causing the demand for labor to press upward on the demand for housing. This is true in all the major metropolitan areas that CONTI tracks.
In the year ending in 1Q2022, total U.S. employment was up by 6.7 million jobs compared to the year ending 1Q2021, a period that included the worst months of the pandemic’s impact on the labor market.
Based on this data and further breakdowns by our experts, CONTI believes that the multifamily market harbors strong fundamentals, and vacancy rates will remain low relative to historical norms despite a swell of expected construction deliveries.
First-time homebuyers who might have been able to secure a mortgage with little trouble a decade ago are facing increasingly difficult odds today.
In cities across the country, apartment hunters are in for a difficult time finding a place to call home – the U.S. multifamily market is effectively full, a phenomenon which has never occurred before.
Recently, the median home price in the U.S. reached a historic high of $379,700. Single-family home prices have been climbing drastically and this increasing lack of affordability has only accentuated the barriers to homeownership.
CONTI’s own home price forecast is forecasting 3 and 5-Year annual average home price growth to average 8.2% and 6.1%, respectively. Our 5-Year forecast is higher than the mean but lower than the optimistic growth recorded by the survey.
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