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  • Database of 12,883 Properties
  • 2.8 Billion Square Feet of Apartments
  • 91 Consecutive Quarterly Updates of Rents & Occupancy
  • 96 MSA’s in 14 States
  • More than 3,300,000 Units
  • 136 Individual Search Criteria Used Alone or Combined
  • 4,500 Sales Transactions Recorded in the Past Four Years
  • 95% of the Database Resurveyed Each Quarter
  • 18 Year History for Individual Complexes
  • 22 Years of Experience 1989-2011

REALFACTS is the original apartment data source….the source behind the source.  We are trusted by our clients for good reason.  Our data is always reliable, always dependable.  We conduct surveys that are 100% primary research.  All the data we publish is collected, updated and maintained in our own office by our highly trained and competent staff.

Each community in the database is updated every quarter (our contact rate must be over 95% before we stop), and it is all done in 30 days or less so that rents are truly comparable. Every piece of data entered is screened by a senior analyst, and a computer program identifies all major changes to be approved before they are final. We've been collecting data by perfecting the same questions and same methodology for tabulating answers, for the past twenty years.

We track 100+ unit market rate communities, except in urban core markets like San Francisco and Los Angeles where we go down to 50+.  We also exclude affordable, senior and student housing for those communities where market rent units don't equal or exceed 100+.  Since ours is an inventory product, we try to find every community that fits our parameters. We include all Class A, B and C product. We add new properties to the database when certificates of occupancy are issued and leasing begins.

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Year end Preview

Year end preview! Aggressive rent hikes aren't sticking.....rents down slightly in 23 MSAs published in the RealFacts synopsis, up in 19 and 6 remain unchanged. Occupancy down in 38 markets. Up or unchanged in 10. 4th Quarter data release with year end statistics are available January 15th,...