{"id":1004173755,"date":"2017-04-21T05:58:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004173755"},"modified":"2022-12-08T20:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T04:48:20","slug":"economy-watch-multifamily-markets-softening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-multifamily-markets-softening\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy Watch: Multifamily Markets Softening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Dees Stribling, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004173757\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/NMHC-quarterly-survey-0417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004173757\" data-attachment-id=\"1004173757\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-multifamily-markets-softening\/nmhc-quarterly-survey-0417\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/NMHC-quarterly-survey-0417.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"906,553\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NMHC quarterly survey 0417\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Source: NMHC Quarterly Survey of Apartment Conditions (April 2017)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/NMHC-quarterly-survey-0417.jpg?w=906\" class=\"wp-image-1004173757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/NMHC-quarterly-survey-0417.jpg\" alt=\"Source: NMHC Quarterly Survey of Apartment Conditions (April 2017)\" width=\"400\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/NMHC-quarterly-survey-0417.jpg 906w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/NMHC-quarterly-survey-0417.jpg?resize=300,183 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/NMHC-quarterly-survey-0417.jpg?resize=768,469 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004173757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NMHC Quarterly Survey of Apartment Conditions (April 2017)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite moderate improvements during first-quarter 2017, all four indexes in the National Multifamily Housing Council&#8217;s quarterly survey remained below the breakeven level of 50, the organization reported on Thursday. Namely, Market Tightness (41), Sales Volume (30), Equity Financing (42) and Debt Financing (41) all point to continued softening conditions in U.S. apartment markets, even as demand for apartment residences remains strong.<\/p>\n<p>After years of lagging behind the increase in apartment demand, new supply is finally coming online in sufficient quantity to alter the previous supply-demand imbalance, explained Mark Obrinsky, NMHC\u2019s senior vice president of research and chief economist. In particular, the run-up in Class A supply in many urban core submarkets has led to increased concessions to maintain leasing activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Market Tightness Index increased from 25 to 41 in the first quarter, as one-fifth of respondents (20 percent) reported tighter conditions than three months ago, up from 8 percent in January. Over one-third (38 percent) noted looser conditions. While that marks the sixth consecutive quarter of overall declining conditions, it does mark an uptick from the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the investment market, some of the weakness in property sales is seasonal, but respondents reported caution on the part of buyers as well as debt and equity capital sources, in particular in regard to construction lending,&#8221; Obrinsky said. &#8220;Increased uncertainty about the outlook for interest rates and cap rates also appears to be playing a role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All four indexes of the NMHC&#8217;s quarterly survey were below the breakeven level of 50, indicating that U.S. apartment market conditions are softening despite continued strong demand. New supply is finally catching up, and there seems to be more caution among buyers and lenders, noted NMHC Chief Economist Mark Obrinsky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"featured_media":1004173757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23891,21742],"tags":[35118,33610,35117],"class_list":["post-1004173755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-latest","tag-mark-obrinsky","tag-national-multifamily-housing-council","tag-nmhc-quarterly-survey"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Economy Watch: Multifamily Markets Softening - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-multifamily-markets-softening\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Economy Watch: Multifamily Markets Softening\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All four indexes of the NMHC&#039;s quarterly survey were below the breakeven level of 50, indicating that U.S. apartment market conditions are softening despite continued strong demand. 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