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RICHARDSON, TX—The apartment development pipeline has two main components: units under construction and those in the planning stages. With a total of about 100,000 apartments due to come on line in Dallas, New York City and Atlanta, including 39,400 in Dallas alone, it would stand to reason that there will be many more to follow.

However, RealPage analysis says this isn't the case. In the case of the three metro areas cited above, there are a little over 23,000 units in the planning stages—i.e. approved by local regulators and scheduled to begin construction within a year.

Other markets with healthy construction activity, such as Seattle and Houston, similarly have worked through much of their development pipelines at this point. RealPage says the two metro areas have fewer than 4,000 units apiece in the planning stages as of the third quarter.

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Paul Bubny

Paul Bubny is managing editor of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. He has been reporting on business since 1988 and on commercial real estate since 2007. He is based at ALM Real Estate Media Group's offices in New York City.