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Purchasing investment properties can be a risky venture when you don’t have all the information to hand. Details can be missed, and you could end up buying a building that’s more trouble than it’s worth – with high delays in rent payments and t…

Multifamily data shows that most landlords increase the rent for their properties each year. It’s important to consider many factors, like market conditions, when raising rent. The right data and research can help you determine not only when to raise…

Commercial and residential real estate firms have undergone a digital transformation over the past few years, and when the pandemic forced many to social distance and work from home, that transformation was dramatically accelerated. Even with return …

Low lead-to-lease conversion rate? This is costing your property time and money! Instead, apartment market data can help you improve your conversion rates. Knowing what other properties are doing and what renters in your area have come to expect can …

It’s no surprise that online shopping is becoming more ubiquitous. Multifamily data research estimates that each resident on average will receive 9.41 packages each month in 2022, with that number going up to 10.65 in 2023. So, what’s a property mana…

Managing the bottom line of your apartment community may seem tricky, but apartment market research shows there’s one highly cost-effective strategy: tenant retention. Now, you’ve likely heard before that resident retention is important, but we’re he…

While many believed sustainability was a short-term fad, multifamily data research suggests that it is here to stay and more important than ever. As millennials continue to rent and Generation Z is starting to move in, now is the time to create a sus…

Since the onset of the pandemic, apartment leasing teams have had to get creative in order to balance leasing activities with social distancing. We took a quick look at roughly 10,000 tours that took place during the traditionally busy summer months …