Rental Market
Apartment hunting got a little bit tougher in 2025 as the delivery of new units struggled to keep up with demand and more renters decided to renew their leases than in the previous year, according to a recent RentCafe study of activity in the sector. Nationally, the lease renewal rate ticked up to 63% and…
It would seem that a lot more people are interested in renting an apartment in Dallas compared to last year, at least according to RentCafe, which showed the Big D jumping up some 25 spots this past quarter in its latest ranking of U.S. cities based on online engagement. RentCafe’s Renter Engagement Tracker ranks the…
A recurring critique of Dallas City Council’s alleged propensity for approving multifamily rezoning applications is that officials are cynically using the housing affordability crisis to justify the construction of upscale projects in the face of neighborhood opposition. If there’s a shortage of affordable housing, the criticism goes, how is greenlighting a high-end development in Preston…
Dallas is cementing its place among the top U.S. cities embracing adaptive reuse, logging the second-highest number of units delivered through office-to-apartment conversion in 2024 and placing fourth overall for conversions generally. According to a recent analysis by RentCafe, Dallas transformed old office space into 584 units, just four units shy of Manhattan, New York,…
Things can change in just a matter of months, and that was certainly the case in Dallas’ rental market heading into the summer. While affordability remains a problem for many, apartment hunters in the Big D had an easier time finding a unit than they did last year as new supply and slower leasing activity…
