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More Bang for Your Buck

The multifamily transactional marketplace is coming back to life as a result of positive things beginning to happen. Sellers are realizing it’s not 2022 anymore and their properties won’t sell at a sub-3% cap rate. Pricing is coming down. While interest …

Minimal Rent Growth in 2024

Yardi reports that since 2022, multifamily rent growth and occupancy in the United States have declined on something of a steady basis. There’s a link to the Yardi study in the article. But one needs to strongly consider that rent growth from 2021 – 2022 was in the …

Extend and Pretend

If you’re on this web site, chances are you know what ‘extend and pretend’ means. I’m not sure when the phrase was derived but when I was in REO in the 90s, working for a failing savings and loan, it was a common expression. It’s shorthand for the ‘forgiveness’ a lender …

Entertainment District

For those with any interest in Salt Lake City, take a moment and review the attached ‘report card’ from Building Salt Lake as it evaluates the proposed redevelopment by Smith Entertainment Group (SEG) in creating an ‘entertainment district’ in downtown…

18,000 + 4,000 + 50,000 = A Lot of Units

Salt Lake City and Utah’s multifamily market is making headlines with over 18,000 units currently under construction. The Wasatch Front has seen close to 4,000 year-to-date unit deliveries. Occupancy rates have declined …

Bringing It All Back Home

A permanent pedestrian mall in downtown Salt Lake City on Main Street? Really? Hopefully. A personal note: my son attended the University of Iowa in Iowa City. As one of his college tours, we arrived late on a Friday night for events that weekend. We checked in to …

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