Charlotte, North Carolina, Has Most New High-end Rental Property, Data Shows
Visit any urban center in a major U.S. city and you'll see a similar view: cranes dotting the landscape and billboards advertising units in the latest luxury apartment projects. Has the focus on high-end units gotten out of hand?
New research from RentCafe found that luxury rental properties had accounted for 79 percent of all apartment construction in the U.S. And in the 2018 that number has grown to a whopping 87 percent. In many cities, a full 100 percent of projects completed in the first half of the year were upscale units.
Yardi Matrix tracks the data, with a database of more than 80,000 large-scale apartment developments with at least 50 units across more than 130 markets in the United States. The firm considers units class B+ or above as high-end or luxury projects.