A very interesting report on apartment building investment posted on the Freddie Mac website discussing Current Multifamily Values & Cap Rates In Historical Context explores where the market is today and where it is likely to be in five years under a number of different interest rate scenarios. Freddie doesn’t do loans smaller than $5 million (implying a minimum deal size of $6.6-7 million) and many of their borrowers are large institutional investors but the forecasting methods and valuation models they use are applicable to apartment building investing on any scale.
Some takeaways from the report:
Rental growth rates are expected to be quite strong in the near-term forecast. For example, REIS is predicting that rent growth will be between 3.6% and 3.8% for 4 of the next 5 years. Axiometrics, an apartment research firm, is forecasting REIT effective rental growth rates to be above 5% in both 2012 and 2013. They also expect the vacancy rate to be near 3.5% in 2013.
Further, we have also found empirically a possible relationship between rising interest rates and apartment rent growth, suggesting that strong rent growth is more likely with increases in Treasury Rates. In REIS data, the correlation is over 50% and in our own historic data it is higher.
Hence, we feel confident that multifamily property valuation will maintain a healthy level at maturity.
See the complete report here: Current Multifamily Values & Cap Rates In Historical Context
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