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PadSplit, Furnished Finder announce rental housing partnership

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Furnished Finder has partnered with PadSplit to add thousands of PadSplit room rentals to the Furnished Finder platform. The partnership represents Furnished Finder’s largest housing inventory integration to date and responds to growing demand for private room rentals, which accounted for 19% of all property views on the platform in 2025. Furnished Finder currently hosts […]

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LadderUp expands rent-to-homeownership model

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LadderUp Housing announced on Thursday that it received an investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to expand its rent-to-homeownership model into Allegheny and Westmoreland counties in Pennsylvania. The company said the funding will support the acquisition and renovation of homes aimed at helping low- to moderate-income families transition from renting to owning through financial

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Build-to-rent explodes in Atlanta — and agents are taking notice

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No major U.S. metro area has more single-family rental (SFR) homes owned by institutional investors than Atlanta, with current totals sitting at roughly 72,000 houses — nearly doubling No. 2 Phoenix. That concentration represents about 30% of Atlanta’s single-family rental market, a share 10 times the national average, according to a new report from the

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The immigration cliff: How America’s population shift is quietly reshaping the rental market

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For years, multifamily underwriting has treated population growth as a constant factor. However, that assumption has masked an important distinction: not all demand is created equal. Workforce housing demand and Class A housing demand are increasingly being driven by different forces. This divergence is becoming more visible in current data. First-quarter data point to a

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With the Hill in limbo on ROAD Act, the toll on BTR projects climbs

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Last week, 76 members of Congress, specifically the Real Estate Caucus and the Build America Caucus, signed a bipartisan letter “expressing serious concerns” over section 901 of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. The letter, signed by 38 democrats and 38 republicans, urged House leadership to remove or substantially alter the highly contentious Section

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Midwest apartment demand outpaces Sun Belt as rents remain firm

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Midwest apartment demand has quietly become one of the strongest stories in U.S. housing, even as the national rental market cooled.​ RentCafe, using data from its sister apartment rental analytics provider, Yardi Matrix, listed Cincinnati as the top apartment market to watch this rental season. Minneapolis, Cleveland and Kansas City, Missouri, ranked in the top

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The rental market has entered its infrastructure era

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The next housing transition will not be defined by who builds the most units.It will be defined by who controls the rental workflow. For years, the rental conversation has centered on demand. More renters. Longer tenures. Fewer paths to homeownership. That story is familiar and by now well understood by most real estate professionals. What’s

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Judge approves sale of 5,100 contested rent-stabilized NYC apartments

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A federal bankruptcy judge ruled to authorize the sale of 5,100 mostly rent-stabilized units in New York City in a deal that Zohran Mamdani tried to stall on the day he swore in as the new New York City mayor.​ With the decision, international real estate firm Summit Properties USA will acquire 93 buildings from

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DSCR loans became an investor favorite in 2025

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For real estate investors sidelined by traditional income documentation requirements, debt-service-coverage ratio (DSCR) loans are becoming easier to access and are more widely available as lenders refine underwriting and gain confidence in the product’s performance. Like other seemingly “nontraditional” loans, lenders took some time to dip their toes into in the DSCR market. Marc Halpern,

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DSCR mortgages are grabbing the spotlight. They’ll gain speed in 2026

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Demand for debt-service-coverage ratio (DSCR) loans grew in 2025 as tight housing inventory and a rising share of nontraditional wage earners pushed more borrowers toward alternative products. The demand was contagious across the industry. In November, Rocket Pro announced the launch of its first DSCR product for investment properties, marking a turning point as companies

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