While there is lingering concern about rent payments in the apartment sector, it is clear that many multifamily properties are trading at pre-pandemic pricing.

Need proof? Look at Equity Residential's recent sale of Vantage Pointe, a 679-unit apartment property located in downtown San Diego.

EQR sold the property for approximately $312.5 million at a disposition yield of 4.1%, which generated a preliminary unlevered IRR of 8.8% over the REIT's ten-year ownership period. Mark J. Parrell, Equity Residential's President and CEO, said that the company sold the asset at the price it had ascribed to it before the pandemic.

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Leslie Shaver

Les Shaver has been covering commercial and residential real estate for almost 20 years. His work has appeared in Multifamily Executive, Builder, units, Arlington Magazine in addition to GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum.