A Closer Look at Suburban Markets and Their Urban Counterparts

RealShare Apartments Capital Markets Panel

The apartment sector continues to see an influx of capital activity due to healthy property operations and potential demographic-driven upsides. While primary markets accounted for the majority of dollar volume and deals, secondary and tertiary locations also showed large gains in investment.

At RealShare Apartments last week, we heard experts on the best strategies to find yield, how they’re structuring deals and their thoughts on the direction of interest rates and overall housing cycle, and about how their strategies are evolving with the competitive market conditions.

Moderated by Marc Renard, vice chairman of the capital markets group at Cushman & Wakefield, he asked panelists if real estate has performed better than expected and how there has been a mentality to take some chips off the table, perhaps at the wrong time. Bob Hart, founder, CEO and president of TruAmerica Multifamily, said that “a lot of people have achieved results in a short period of time,” and panelist Brett T. Kahn, executive director of J.P. Morgan Asset Management of Global Real Assets – Americas, said that “It isn’t always a bearish sign to take some chips off the table.”