The Apartment Association held its annual state of the industry event last week, and industry leaders and analysts discussed Harvey-related issues, recent economic trends, job growth and forecasts.
The new tax bill will have both positive and negative effects on the construction industry and other issues affecting heavy freight in the United States.
“The multifamily industry needs to catch up with the revolutions that are already well underway in everything from transportation and retail to demographics and psychographics,” says Rick Haughey at the National Multifamily Housing Council.
Since the rebound, there has been more than 900,000 square feet converted into creative space in the Airport submarket alone and almost as much set to be delivered in OC over the next 18 months, representing a direct shrinking of the class-B inventory, NKF's George Thomson tells GlobeSt.com.
The market failed to accumulate one million square feet of annual net absorption for the first time in five years, and it was the second consecutive year with negative net absorption in the final quarter.
The median sale price of a residential unit in Manhattan in the fourth quarter of 2017 was $1.06 million, which marked the third consecutive quarter where the median sale price increased as compared to the same period a year earlier. However, the fourth quarter median price was 9.4% lower as compared to the third quarter 2017 median price of $1.17 million.