Rental, For-Sale Markets Buck Odds, Rise Together

Bendix Anderson – Mar. 1, 2013

The apartment and for-sale housing markets usually compete with each other. Historically, the math has been simple and brutal: If the percentage of people who own homes goes up, then the percentage of people who rent goes down. Good news for housing sales often means bad news for the apartment sector, if the number of households that need homes stays stable.

But what’s happening today is different, according to the economists at the National Association of Realtors (NAR). “Rental demand and housing sales are rising… Full Article

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