Valley Rental Housing Journal August 17

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August 2017

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3. RHA Oregon President’s Message 4. Dear Maintenance Men 5. Over-Automated Recruitment Processes can Leave Job Candidates Frustrated 6. Midyear Report – Suburban Office Challenging CBD

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Multifamily Market Will Hit Records in 2017 as Investors Return

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judge has ruled in Circuit Court in Portland against landlords who had challenged the city’s relocation ordinance passed earlier this year. Judge Henry Breithaupt, a tax court judge sitting in Circuit Court, upheld the relocation assistance ordinance and ruled against the landlords’ argument that the relocation ordinance amounted to rent control and illegally sought to stop no cause evictions. The city’s law allows tenants to collect between $2,900 and $4,500 when landlords use no-cause evictions or raise rents more than 10 percent in a year. Portland’s ordinance is set to expire in October

By John Wilhoit

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hen the pendulum swings in real estate investing, it covers the entire reach of the pivotback and forth. Sometimes the pivot is pricing, another time occupancy, or availability of financing. Or just plain market stability. You will occasionally see a market in balance but this seems to be the exception to the rule. Wait, hold that thought. Let’s say your assets are in a stable market, expectations are for continued stability and the asset is meeting your financial expectations. Do you buy, hold or sell? This is where many people get that uneasy feeling. This can’t be right- stability? What an unusual thing! Many investors so are accustomed to constant flux that when stability arrives it is unrecognizable. Granted, real estate, does not love or feel. Nor should it be treated as a family member. But very often it can require only nominal tinkering. Not to be left alone unattended, of course, but unobstructed from producing positive financial results. Following are some of the things that people do related to their real estate investments that get in the way of success. Greed (ignoring the fairness principle). In life and real estate there is always potential for litigation. Setting this aside for a moment, staying away from the margins, some people operate under the principle that a transaction that is fair to both parties is a quality objective. Other people, not so much. Their objective is to crush, diminish, and peel the deal to the ...continued on page 3 Professional Publishing Inc., PO Box 6244 Beaverton, OR 97007

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Current Economic Data Supports Multifamily Investments

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est Coast markets will dominate the top 10 on gross income growth in 2017 for the multifamily market, led by Seattle, Sacramento, Tacoma, Portland and Colorado Springs, according to the Freddie Mac Multifamily Research Group’s mid-year outlook. Outlook authors Steve Guggenmos and Sara Hoffmann find that the multifamily market will continue to grow for the rest of 2017 and into 2018. Although the market will continue to moderate from cyclical highs, demand for rental housing units will remain steady. As a result, Freddie Mac is predicting that origination volume is likely to hit another record in 2017, reaching between $270 and $280 billion, according to a release. Market uncertainty kept many multifamily investors on the sidelines in the first quarter of the year, but they are starting to return as interest rates moderate and the economy continues its steady upward trajectory. Multifamily performance, by most measures, remained near the historical average across the nation and in most

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markets in the first half of 2017. While results were mixed, the overall trend remained the same High levels of new supply, slowly increasing vacancy rates, and moderating rent growth. The rest of this year will bring more of the same. Some larger metropolitan areas that saw lower-than-expected performance in 2016 – such as San Francisco, New York City, and Boston –

will continue to re-balance this year. Freddie Mac is predicting that originations will increase and set another record this year but will be lower than originally forecasted. Higher interest rates and market uncertainty kept more investors on the sidelines during the first quarter of the year. As interest rates stabilized and ...continued on page 3

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