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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.

Amazon To Spark Apartment Boom With New Second Headquarters Locations

Amazon To Spark Apartment Boom With New Second Headquarters Locations

Amazon is expected to spark an apartment boom in the Long Island City and Crystal City areas of New York and Washington where the company has announced it will place its additional headquarters locations. So...
Rent Control Still Not the Solution to Housing Affordability

Rent Control Expansion Soundly Defeated By California Voters As Landlords Win

Rent control expansion in California was soundly defeated by voters who declined to repeal a 23-year-old law that limits cities’ ability to enact rent control, giving an election-day win for landlords. Voters declined to repeal...
Seattle Rents Decline Sharply Over The Past Month While Other Cities In Metro Rise

Seattle Rents Decline Sharply Over The Past Month While Other Cities In Metro Rise

Seattle rents have declined 0.7% over the past month, and have decreased moderately by 1.3% in comparison to the same time last year, according to the November report from ApartmentList.com. Currently, median rents in Seattle...
Portland Rents Continue Decline

Portland Rents Continue Decline But Rents Rising In Some Cities Across The Metro

Portland rents have declined 0.6% over the past month, and are down moderately by 1.1% in comparison to the same time last year, according to a new report. Currently, median rents in Portland stand at...
Apartment Residents Favor Living In A Green Apartment Community

Apartment Residents Favor Living In A Green Apartment Community

Apartments that pursue more environmental friendly practices will gain favor with a majority of apartment residents who believe global warming is a real danger and want to live in a green apartment community, according...
25-Story High-Rise Seattle Apartment Tower Opens

25-Story High-Rise Seattle Apartment Tower Opens

A Seattle apartment tower, South Lake Union's first high-rise, has completed construction and opened welcoming new residents, according to a release. Ascent South Lake Union by national multifamily developer Greystar, has 251 contemporary high-rise apartment homes inspired...
Portland regulators, through the city’s revenue department,t have reached a memorandum of understanding with Airbnb

Portland Mayor To Take On Short-Term Fake Rental Owners And Airbnb

Back in August Portland auditors found about 80 percent of short-term rentals operate illegally, and now the Portland Tribune in an excellent article has exposed a fictitious Airbnb host named Nadia who claimed to...
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...