10 Takeaways from AFIRE’s 2021 International Investor Survey Cross-border investors continue to favor the U.S. as the market to which they plan to allocate most of their money.
The shifts in the use of space brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic last year led to worries that many U.S. commercial real estate assets might become less attractive to investors. The results of the latest survey from the Association for Foreign Real Estate Investors (AFIRE) show most of those worries turn out to be unfounded. Today, foreign buyers have a very high level of interest in investing in U.S. real estate, although their most preferred geographic markets might have changed driven in some part by the search for higher yields and not necessarily by changes brought on by the pandemic. In fact, this was among the survey findings that surprised even AFIRE’s CEO Gunnar Branson. “Investor outlook is positive. This is not an easy time to be positive,” he said during a Zoom call with media on
Report: Pandemic changes prompting some San Antonio renters to move from downtown to suburbs
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Rent growth stayed relatively flat in the San Antonio area last year, according to a report by the San Antonio Apartment Association.Staff file photo
Opportunities to work remotely, skip commuting, spread out in more space and spend less on rent prompted some residents to move farther away from San Antonio’s urban core last year, a report by the San Antonio Apartment Association suggests.
And while home prices rose last year amid a tight supply and low interest rates, average rent and occupancy in the area stayed largely flat as rental assistance programs provided aid, landlords offered deals to help keep tenants in their buildings and developers completed new apartments.