Thursday, June 19, 2025

News And Trends

At News & Trends you will find trends in rents, real estate sales, apartment development, the economy at large and property management and investing industry matters.

Goodbye LA, Hello Phoenix As Residents Move To Find Affordable Housing Solutions

Goodbye LA, Hello Phoenix As Residents Move To Find Affordable Housing Solutions

The Phoenix metro area and Dallas-Fort Worth top the list of areas where people are moving to find more affordable housing solutions and a less expensive metro to live in, according to a study...
A landlord who threatened a woman with eviction because she had an emotional support dog has settled claims of disability discrimination with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

HUD Settles With Landlord Over Threat To Evict Woman With Emotional Support Dog

A landlord who threatened a woman with eviction because she had an emotional support dog has settled claims of disability discrimination with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and will pay...
Landlord Shot In Head Serving Eviction Notice At Apartment In Suburban Seattle

Landlord Shot In Head Serving Eviction Notice At Apartment In Suburban Seattle

A landlord serving an eviction notice on a tenant in her fourplex was shot in the head and critically injured at a Renton, Washington, apartment complex when the home’s occupant began firing at her, according to...
Rents Declined The Most In Portland Year-Over-Year

Rents Declined The Most In Portland Year-Over-Year

Rents declined the most in Portland, Ore., where the $1,834 median is 1.8 percent lower than in August 2017. For the first time since 2012, rents nationwide remained at the same level as they were a year earlier, with...
Raccoon Attack Leads To Lawsuit Against Portland Apartment Complex

Raccoon Attack Leads To Lawsuit Against Portland Apartment Complex

A tenant in a Portland apartment complex has filed suit after she was bitten by a raccoon on the property while she was walking her dogs, according to reports. The tenant, Heidi Schultz, filed suit...

97 Percent Of Property Management Companies Have Experienced Fraud

A new report from Forrester Consulting shows that in the last two years alone 97% of property management decision makers have experienced fraud in the properties they manage. On top of that, 83 percent of...

Only 41 Percent Of Renters Carry Renters Insurance

Only 41 percent of renters carry renters insurance, a substantial difference from 95 percent of homeowners who carry homeowner’s insurance policies, according to a new poll from the Insurance Information Institute. The number of renters has...

Portland Rental Property Owners Plan To Fight City Hall And State

Portland rental property owners, managers, builders and building suppliers feel they are under attack from Portland City Hall and the Oregon Legislature and have mounted a campaign against proposed regulations. The group has launched a...

No Fire Sprinklers:13 Dead, Nearly 500 Homeless From 4 Fires In 11 Days

A mother and her five children, ages 2 through 10, were killed in a fire at an extended-stay hotel in Benton Harbor, Michigan, on July 27, 2018 Several others were taken to the hospital with...

Apartment Jobs Account For One Third Of All Real Estate Jobs

A new report from the National Apartment Association says apartment jobs across the country account for one-third of all the real estate jobs in the nation. In Portland it is even higher. Apartment jobs in Portland...