Category Archives: Rentals
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Which tech company’s workers can afford to rent in SF?
Median income reports for Silicon Valley’s top-tier companies reveal who’s being priced out Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images On Tuesday, Silicon Valley Business Journal disclosed the median pay at dozens of...
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Nation’s top three most expensive places for renters: all in Bay...
Source: The Mercury News If you want to rent a two-bedroom apartment in the South Bay, you’d better make close to $50 an hour — or roughly $100,000 a year — according to a startling new report that pegs all three of the nation’s most...
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Report: In LA, high housing prices make it hard to afford...
Source: Curbed It’s not a secret that housing prices are steep in Los Angeles, but a new report from the United Ways of California shows that those costs make it exceedingly difficult for many locals to afford other basic needs like food...
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Faced with a housing crisis, California could further restrict supply
Source: The Economist Champions of expanded rent control argue that it will allow cities to protect and increase their stock of affordable housing. “We need tools to prevent price gouging,” says Elena Popp, executive director of the...
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Rent control measure on its way to California ballot
Source: The Sacramento Bee California voters this year will likely decide whether cities across the state should have more power to enact stronger rent control. Rent control proponents behind a proposed November ballot initiative that...
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The Biggest Game Changers in Renting Are Older, Highly-Educated Renters, and...
Source: RENTCafe Blog Have you noticed how different renting is today from one or two decades ago? I think most of us would agree that renters were usually people in their 20s, renting mostly bare-bones dingy apartments with stinky carpeting...
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Rent price hikes are easing
Source: National Real Estate Investor Apartment rents continue to grow more slowly than before. The cities where rents grew the most in 2016 are still top cities for rent growth this year, but their lead is getting smaller. “A year ago...
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Can teacher housing entice educators to work in expensive cities?
Source: Curbed Experiments in making life as a teacher more affordable show how rising real estate costs hurt urban districts An aerial render of the recently finished Teacher’s Village in Newark, New Jersey, a new...
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It’s cheaper to buy a home than rent, but only if...
Source: CNBC The supply of listings in April fell 9 percent compared with a year ago. Unfortunately for buyers, the cheapest segment of the market is where supplies are lowest. Home prices...
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Renters Now Rule Half of U.S. Cities
Source: National Real Estate Investor Fifty-two of the 100 largest U.S. cities were majority renter in 2015, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Since 2009, 21 cities had shifted to renter-rule. Renters now dominate in both hot housing...
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