This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines renewed CPI inflation pressure alongside new analysis of the New York Fed’s SCE Housing Survey, which shows moving expectations falling to new lows.

After months of gradual cooling, CPI’s shelter index nearly doubled its monthly pace in April.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines the latest Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey alongside the April jobs report, highlighting stable multifamily credit conditions, improving borrower demand, and a cooling but resilient labor market.

April's jobs report had a muted effect on interest rate projections. Looking further out, however, markets are more split.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines slowing multifamily rent growth alongside moderating home price appreciation, highlighting a housing market moving through a period of low growth and gradual rebalancing.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines apartment market conditions via NMHC’s latest quarterly survey, alongside new Chandan Economics-RentRedi data showing continued improvement in mom-and-pop rent collections.

April 2026 Rental Payment Trends: Collections Improve, Late Payments Remain Elevated

New research shows renters accounted for nearly 80% of household growth in 2025, while the latest Beige Book points to a resilient but increasingly cautious US economy.

CPI inflation ticks higher in March while NAHB’s Remodeling Market Index signals continued expansion, with forward-looking indicators softening. This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing breaks down what it means for housing demand and investment conditions.

The War in the Middle East has undoubtedly raised fears over inflation pressures and shaken up interest rate projections since it began. Still, it appears that markets are at least marginally more optimistic about its impact now than immediately after the war's outbreak.

Rental housing trends show rising multifamily CMBS delinquencies and moderating home price growth, highlighting ongoing capital markets pressure and shifting housing dynamics.

Apartment prices show early signs of stabilization as rent collections continue to improve, pointing to a more constructive backdrop for rental housing.

On-time rent payments rose again in March 2026, extending the recovery from late-2025 lows, though late-payment pressure remains elevated and new macro risks are emerging.

Multifamily rent growth remains near flat as the market operates in a low-growth environment. This week’s briefing also highlights key takeaways from Arbor’s Q1 2026 SFR report and upcoming data releases.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines the Senate’s passage of the Road to Housing Act, the recent rise in long-term interest rates amid surging energy prices and inflation expectations, and the key data releases to watch in the week ahead.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines the latest Trepp CMBS delinquency data, RealPage’s February apartment market update, and the February jobs report, along with the key data releases to watch in the week ahead.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines the latest S&P Cotality Case-Shiller home price data, highlighting continued moderation in national price growth, alongside February’s Independent Landlord Rental Performance Report, which shows ongoing stabilization in rent collections among independently operated properties, and the key data releases to watch in the week ahead.

Released annually, the report is a snapshot of the intersection of racial disparities in US housing and inequities in other socioeconomic dimensions, such as education, geography, income, and evolving economic conditions.

February 2026 data from the Independent Landlord Rental Performance Report show on-time rent payments rebounding to 83.7%, with late-payment pressure easing and full-payment rates reaching their strongest level since late summer 2025. While year-over-year collections remain below prior levels, the trend continues to point toward stabilization in the mom-and-pop rental market.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing breaks down the latest real GDP data, new Census findings on single-family rental ownership, how institutional acquisition trends compare with broader ownership patterns, and the key releases to watch in the week ahead.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines trends in small multifamily investment activity, emerging signals from the New York Fed’s Household Debt and Credit Report, what shifting consumer credit conditions may imply for rental housing performance, and the key data releases to watch in the week ahead.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines emerging signals from the Federal Reserve’s Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on multifamily credit conditions, alongside recent trends in multifamily CMBS delinquencies as reported by Trepp, and the key data releases to watch in the week ahead.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines key takeaways from NMHC’s Annual Meeting, including evolving capital markets and operating dynamics in multifamily, alongside recent national home price trends from the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Index and the key data releases to watch in the week ahead.

This week’s Rental Housing Weekly Briefing examines apartment property price trends using MSCI Real Capital Analytics’ CPPI, recent rent collection performance among independent landlords, and the key data releases to watch in the week ahead.