Sun Belt
Brightshore’s Tom Shapiro: Rate Shock Sours Housing as Data Centers Lift Industrial
Brightshore Capital founder Tom Shapiro told CNBC that a September rate hike and 30-year mortgages near 7.5 percent have soured both the for-sale...
Austin Apartment Rents Snap 41-Month Losing Streak as New Supply Dries Up
Austin's market-rate apartment rents eked out a 0.11 percent annual gain through September 2026, according to RealPage data highlighted by rental housing economist...
Endeavor Lands $210MM GP Fund, Lining Up $3 Billion in Texas-Led Sun Belt Deals
Austin-based Endeavor Real Estate Group has closed an oversubscribed $210 million general partner fund that it expects to stretch into more than $3...
Trepp Analysts Split on Austin Apartment Bottom as Sun Belt Debt Stress Outpaces West
Two of Trepp's top analysts disagreed on whether Austin's battered apartment market has hit bottom, even as the firm's data showed Sun Belt...
Austin Rent Declines Narrow to 1.9% as San Antonio Vacancy Tops 15% in Texas Multifamily Shakeout
Austin has climbed off the bottom of the national rent growth rankings for the first time in three years, but San Antonio has...
U.S. Apartment Operators Surrender Six Weeks Free Rent as Concession Discounts Hit 25-Year High
The national apartment market's average concession discount climbed to 11.1 percent in June 2026, the deepest in more than 25 years, as operators...
Dallas, Austin Single-Family Rents Fall as Sun Belt Supply Wave Erodes Landlord Pricing Power
Texas single-family rents slipped during the first half of 2026 as years of aggressive apartment and build-to-rent construction across the Sun Belt caught...
