COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE'S ECONOMIC ADVISORS

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines the August jobs report, where stronger-than-expected payroll growth and upward revisions to prior months improved the near-term employment picture but reinforced upward pressure on interest rates, alongside a new Chandan Economics–Arbor Realty Trust analysis showing that build-to-rent construction remains elevated despite moderating from its 2024 peak.

August’s stronger-than-expected job gains, on top of the June and July revisions, give hawks additional fodder for the September meeting.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines the latest Chandan Economics–RentRedi data showing continued stabilization in mom-and-pop rent collections, with on-time payments improving in August and year-over-year performance strengthening, alongside new Trepp analysis showing that multifamily expense growth cooled in 2025 even as revenue and NOI growth also slowed.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines Chandan Economics’ latest Multifamily Rent Growth Update, where annual and short-term rent growth both accelerated in July and a larger share of US metro areas recorded rising rents, alongside new Census data showing that multifamily housing starts remained volatile even as the underlying development trend held relatively firm.