Across the U.S., rent growth is picking up its pace following a year of relatively stagnant appreciation, according to the latest quarterly HotPads® Rent Report. The U.S. median rent is $1,530 per month, up 3.1 percent from a year ago. Rent growth slowed in ...

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Latch, creator of the world’s first smart access system, announced today that 1 in 10 new apartments in the US are being built with Latch. The pace of adoption for this technology is without clear precedent, as Latch only began ...

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Residential developer Hopper Communities has launched sales for Uptown West, a new townhome community in the Historic West End. Located at the intersection of Duckworth Avenue and Wesley Heights Way, Uptown West will consist of 74 three-story townhomes with rooftop ...

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Renters who earn the least cannot afford even the cheapest market-rate rentals in the nation’s largest metro areas, according to a Zillow® analysis of multifamily rents and Census income data. The rent affordability crisis is especially tough for the lowest-earning ...

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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. – Mount Pleasant has imposed a six-month moratorium on new apartment building. Local media outlets report the town council approved the moratorium Monday in a community where about 2,200 new apartments are already under construction or have ...

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DEAR BENNY: My son recently moved out of an apartment he rented for slightly longer than a year. At the end of the lease, the landlord allowed him to continue on a month-to-month basis. My son told him he would ...

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CHARLOTTE – Levine Properties has announced plans to build a 105-unit boutique apartment community just south of Plaza Midwood. Levine bought three parcels of land totaling 1.2 acres along Commonwealth Avenue in Chantilly for about $2 million in October, according ...

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CHARLOTTE – Levine Properties wants to add 175 hotel rooms – and 35 vertical feet – to an apartment development planned for the Midtown neighborhood just south of Uptown. The Charlotte City Council in 2005 approved the developer’s plans for ...

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The city of Charlotte’s Neighborhood and Business Services division said security- and façade-improvement grants are available for apartment communities.

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The apartment industry in Charlotte is doing well. Rents have been soaring, and occupancies are up – all thanks to the downturn in the single-family housing market. But just because apartment owners are seeing a rise in business it doesn’t mean they want to fork over money to register their properties with the city.

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