Building Market Intelligence

With the backdrop of anemically low resale supply (check out our resale agent survey), as well as for-sale new home supply, we are monitoring growth of the build-for-rent (BFR) market to help alleviate the housing shortage.

Demand for single-family rental homes remains strong according to our Burns Single-Family Rent Index™ (BSFRI).

Home builders have been ramping up their land holdings, and doing so in a way that protects them in the event of a downturn.

As we close out 2021, we are looking forward to what 2022 brings to the rental and housing industry.

Demand for single-family rental homes remains strong according to our Burns Single-Family Rent Index™ (BSFRI).

We identified 43 announcements totaling more than $30 billion in capital (see infographic below) that are targeting US rental housing.

The single-family rental (SFR) sector continues to impress in 2021, with new lease effective single-family rents exceeding double digits in many of the largest single-family rental markets.  Major differences by market In the last year, rents have fallen -1% in …

Over the next 24 months, expect home construction to boom as the number of communities will start growing again after a significant decline that has lasted more than 21 months now. Both for-sale and for-rent home builders have been on …

Since the middle of 2019—with one huge pause last spring—housing demand has been greatly outstripping supply. More housing (both for-rent and for-sale) will help alleviate the current environment of rapidly rising rents and home prices. We are well on our …