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The Radix Review: Multifamily Trends Explained

Covering the latest trends in multifamily housing, demographics, and economic insights, built off real time analytics at the property, submarket and market level.

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3:04

Job Growth Surprisingly Strong to Start 2026

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2026/02/11

The labor market kicked off 2026 with a surprising 130,000 new jobs in January based on today’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was more than double economists’ expectations. From an industry perspective, health care and social assistance (+124,000) and construction (+33,000) were major winners for monthly job gains. The federal government (-34,000) and financial activities (-22,000) lost jobs. While the overall number is great news to start 2026, many will wait and see if thes...

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2:40

Carolinas, Idaho, and Texas Lead in Population Growth

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2026/02/04

The U.S. Census Bureau’s first look at 2025 population data revealed a significant cooling trend. As of July 1, 2025, the U.S. population grew by 1.8 million from the prior year, or 0.5%. It was a sharp deceleration compared to the prior year’s 1.0% gain of 3.2 million people. Analysts attributed much of the change to a substantial decline in international immigration. The slowdown in overall population growth was particularly relevant for the multifamily sector because it influenced demand f...

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2:46

Fern Impacts Q1 Economic Growth

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2026/01/27

Winter Storm Fern wreaked havoc on the U.S. this past week, with early estimates predicting more than $100 billion in total economic losses. According to MarketWatch, analysts from Morgan Stanley believe the storm’s disruption could shave 0.5 to 1.5 percentage points from Q1 GDP, potentially obscuring the true strength of the economy. Some people reading this planned to attend a major multifamily conference in Las Vegas this week, but they were significantly delayed or completely unable to ma...

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2:16

Economists Grow More Optimistic for 2026 Outlook –...

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2026/01/21

This week's RAOT As of January 18, annual rent growth for multifamily was 1.8% at the national level. The U.S. occupancy rate was stable at 92.8%. Also in this week's report, a recent survey of economists showed an improved outlook for job growth and a lower chance of recession in 2026. Explore our webpage for more insights and resources: https://bit.ly/Radix_Website

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2:42

Mixed Jobs Report Signals Steady Interest Rates

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2026/01/14

The U.S. labor market ended the year with an unemployment rate of 4.4%, reinforcing expectations that the Fed will keep interest rates steady at its meeting later this month. While the jobless rate was low, it was a lackluster year of job gains, which is a trend that could persist in 2026. Employment increaed by 50,000 jobs from the prior month in December on a seasonally adjusted basis. Of the 525,000 jobs gained for the full year, it was very front loaded as approximately 84% of the jobs we...

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6:18

What to Watch for in 2026

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2026/01/07

While 2025 might be in the rearview mirror, many of its economic trends carry into 2026. These are a few to watch that influence demand for multifamily. Can the labor market rebound and spur household formation? It was one of the biggest disappointments of last year, with essentially no job growth after April. Supply will be lower than recent peaks, but it won’t completely disappear. Many markets in the Southeast and Southwest regions rely on strong job creation and migration to fill those un...

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2:07

End-of-Year Multifamily Stats for 2025

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2025/12/30

The year ended with a strong reading for U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Last week, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced its preliminary reading of 4.3% annual growth in GDP for Q3 2025. It significantly outperformed expectations and was the highest in two years. The government shutdown happened after the reporting period, and it will impact the Q4 GDP results. Still, it indicated a stronger economy through September than many headlines suggested. Explore our webpage for more i...

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Home Sales Increased For Third Straight Month

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2025/12/23

Existing home sales rose for the third consecutive month in November based on data from the National Association of Realtors. The seasonally adjusted total of 4.13 million homes sold in the last year was the highest since February, but it remained well below prior norms. From 2013 to 2023, existing home sales typically eclipsed 5 million per year. An article published by the Wall Street Journal noted that 54% of primary mortgage-holders have mortgage rates at or below 4%, which represents clo...

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4:01

U.S. Added Only 100k Jobs in Last Six Months

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2025/12/17

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its initial estimates for November’s job growth. Nationally, employers added a total of 64,000 jobs for the month, but other details in the report pointed towards a weakening labor market as the year ends. The unemployment rate increased to 4.6%, the highest in more than four years. In the last six months, the U.S. has only created a total of 100,000 new jobs. During normal periods of economic growth, the job market would eclipse that total practic...

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3:22

Fed Cuts Rates to Lowest in Three Years

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2025/12/10

The Fed cut interest rates by 25 basis points today, putting the target federal funds rate in the range of 3.50% to 3.75%. The recent peak was 5.25% to 5.50% in July 2023. Additional cuts in the near term could be more difficult as the committee members were already divided on this decision to lower rates. More data indicating substantial weakness in the labor market and economy will likely be needed to sway future votes. Ahead of the vote, ADP estimated that employment in the private sector ...

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2:12

Global and U.S. Economic Growth to Moderate in 2026

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2025/12/04

This week, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its latest outlook for U.S. and worldwide growth for 2026. The general sentiment is that economic growth will remain positive next year, but it will moderate in the U.S. and most other countries. GDP in the U.S. is projected to slow from 2.0% in 2025 to 1.7% in 2026. Headline consumer price growth in the U.S., also known as inflation, is expected to rise from 2.7% in 2025 to 3.0% in 2026 before moderating to...

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3:47

New Jobs Reports Yield Mixed Messages

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2025/11/26

Labor market reports released after the government shutdown present a mixed picture for the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision on December 10. On a positive note, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 119,000 new jobs were added in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, more than double what many economists expected, but there was a downward revision of 33,000 jobs combined for July and August. The unemployment rate was 4.4% in September. It remained low by historical standards, bu...

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U.S. Rent Growth 0.9%; Occupancy 92.9%

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2025/11/19

As part of the wide-ranging impact of the government shutdown, many standard economic reports were not published during the last several weeks. Even though alternative sources were leveraged for some indicators, the situation still created uncertainty for markets and policymakers. Now that the government has reopened, key reports for September and October 2025 are rescheduled for release starting this week and into December. That includes new, but significantly delayed, information on nationa...

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4:55

Could The Drop in Consumer Sentiment Impact Rent Growth?

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2025/11/12

As of the production of this report, it appeared the U.S. government was on the brink of re-opening, which will hopefully improve the outlook for consumers. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index for November 2025 was almost at a record low based on preliminary data, just above the reading from mid-2022 when inflation spiked. Pessimistic consumers are typically concerned about their future finances, leading them to spend less and slow the economy. That mindset could also apply ...

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3:31

First-Time Home Buyers Keep Getting Older

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2025/11/05

The typical first-time home buyer in the U.S. was 40 years of age, an all-time high, according to an annual report released this week from the National Association of Realtors. The surveys were based on transactions between July 2024 and June 2025. Additionally, only 21% of purchases were from first-time buyers, an all-time low and roughly half of the 2007 figure. From a multifamily perspective, rental housing is now capturing adults for approximately an extra decade longer than it used to, p...

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2:19

U.S. Occupancy Rate Dips Below 93%

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2025/10/29

This week’s top stories presented a stark contrast: record highs on Wall Street alongside high-profile layoff announcements. Meanwhile, the Fed is set to decide on interest rates without all the normal data at its disposal due to the ongoing government shutdown. Hiring totals have been weak for U.S. companies, but terminations have largely been slow as well. This week, UPS said it cut 48,000 jobs in management and operations positions. While it had already signaled the move earlier in the yea...

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2:56

Unemployment Claims Increase for Federal Workers -...

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2025/10/21

Based on a Wall Street Journal report, the number of unemployment claims filed by federal workers jumped significantly in early October. The federal government remained closed as of the publication of this report, but unemployment insurance claims are reported by state offices. In the week prior to the shutdown, only 588 federal government workers filed an initial unemployment claim. That number jumped to a total of more than 10,500 for the last two weeks combined. The increase in clai...

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3:18

What Top Economists are Forecasting for 2026 - RAOT...

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2025/10/15

The Wall Street Journal published the results from its quarterly survey of economists this week. Overall, the group projected the economy will continue to grow, unemployment will remain low, but job growth will be weak in the near term. Focusing on the last point, 57 economists submitted their U.S. job growth projections for the next 12 months. The average for the group was approximately 50,000 jobs created per month, or 600,000 total jobs for the next year. Other than during the...

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MF Outlook for 2026 Becomes More Conservative – RAOT...

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2025/10/09

The ongoing government shutdown continues to dominate news cycles on a variety of fronts. One of its impacts last week was the lack of a national jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In its absence, many are turning to alternative measures to monitor the health of the job market. ADP reported that private-sector employment declined by 32,000 jobs in September. The company processes the most payrolls in the U.S., and it estimated the companies with fewer than 50 employees too...

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2:44

Multifamily Rent Growth Decelerated in Q3 ’25 – RAOT...

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2025/09/29

With Q3 2025 wrapping up this week, the most notable performance stat for the quarter was the deceleration in rent growth. At the U.S. level, annual effective rent growth slowed from 1.2% at the beginning of the quarter to 0.6% in the last two weeks of September. Now, the focus turns to how fundamentals change in Q4, and how that impacts the outlook for 2026. Listen to this week's report for more! Explore our webpage for more insights and resources: https://bit.ly/Radix_Website

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