Rental market booming with new construction, renters spending increasingly more for housing than homeowners. More proof the rental market is firing on all cylinders: multifamily housing construction is up and renters are paying an ever larger share of their
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11 Nov 2011
11 Nov 2011
Finding an apartment now takes more work. You recently graduated from college and moved back home. After months of searching, you finally found work, and you need to move again. Now you must navigate the rental-housing market,
29 Oct 2011
Calvera Partners Acquires 42-unit Garden-Style Apartment Complex in Sunnyvale, CA. Calvera Partners, LLC today announced that it has purchased a 42-unit garden-style apartment building at 524 E. Maude Avenue in
Sunnyvale, CA through an affiliated entity
.
29 Oct 2011
Third-quarter report shows valley housing market is still in trouble. Lots of new housing data is out, and none of it looks good for the Northern San Joaquin Valley.
Home prices are down. Foreclosures remain high. Rents are flat. House construction is virtually non-existent.
29 Oct 2011
Rents are climbing sharply in the East Bay as people who were once homeowners look for places to rent after losing their homes to foreclosure or not being able to keep up with their mortgage payments.
29 Oct 2011
Silicon Valley apartment rents are racing ahead of the rest of the Bay Area and the country, according to a new report on Thursday.
29 Oct 2011
Marin rents rise despite slow economy and housing market. While it has never been cheap to rent in Marin, apartments are more expensive now than they have been in at least six years despite
29 Oct 2011
Rents have risen 2.6 percent during the last year in Sonoma County, where nearly 96 percent of apartments are now occupied,
29 Oct 2011
Santa Ana, Irvine have O.C.'s biggest rent hikes. If you’re renting an apartment in Santa Ana, odds are that your rent jumped by the largest amount in Orange County.
Next on the list would be apartment renters in Irvine. It’s a sign that rent increases at larger complexes that RealFacts tracks are widespread.
27 Oct 2011
Apartment rents back to pre-recession levels. The average apartment in a large Orange County complex rented for $1,555 a month over the summer — $23 more than in the spring and up $63 in a year, according to apartment tracker RealFacts.
The last time tenants paid this much a month for an average unit was nearly three years ago in the fall of 2008.