The rental market is softening so fast in some pockets of the country that landlords have no choice but to offer concessions

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The rental market is softening so fast in some pockets of the country that landlords have no choice but to offer concessions - Lemmy.world

There’s a town near us, we’re waiting for the housing bubble to collapse so we can move there, in the past 10 years, they’ve built luxury apartment building after luxury apartment building, hoping that the university students in the town will rent them. They’re about to get a harsh awakening.

we’re waiting for the housing bubble to collapse so we can move there

You may be waiting a very long time. People aren’t selling their homes with mortgages at 2-3 percent from 2020-21. Golden handcuffs until rates come down at some point.

They can sit there all they want, builders are more than happy to supply the market without competition from existing homes. Of course at some point rates will go down, and flood the market with existing homes, hopefully while the builders keep over producing for a while.
Builders still need to sell with high interest rates so they are also holding back.
Housing units under construction has been at a 50 year high for a year and a half, with no sign of a slow down, just a shift from single to multi family units.
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Like I said, single family construction has slowed, while multi-family construction has more than picked up the slack. We’re still at 50 year highs with no significant down turn. Try looking at actual data rather than propaganda pieces in the media.

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