U.S. housing construction remains low, and still trails population growth, said John Affleck, CoStar’s director of analytics. “Ongoing deliveries of highly-amenitized, high-rent product will limit rent growth at the high end of the market, but older and more suburban product will continue to outperform.”

It may sound like bad news for the apartment sector: rent growth may stay relatively flat in the second half as vacancies and interest rates climb…

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