See inside Blondie singer Debbie Harry’s 18th century rental home

The 78-year-old Harry bought the two-bed, three-bath Connecticut home for $785,000 in 2016 — a discount from what it sold for at its peak. Continue reading

Dwellsy’s consumer-first rental search earns $11.5M seed round

Dwellsy channels rentals from multiple portals, management systems and third-party listing sites across all residential property types and publishes industry trend reports. Continue reading

MLS partnerships pay off as RentSpree reaches 2M users

The user mark represents a 598 percent three-year revenue increase for RentSpree and the notoriety of being named to the Inc. 5000 list of the country’s fastest growing private companies. Continue reading

RentSpree adds 50,000-member OneKey MLS in latest partnership

OneKey, New York State’s largest multiple listing service, will now offer the software company’s ApplyLink tool to members throughout Long Island, New York City and the Hudson Valley region. Continue reading

RentRedi’s latest offers increased document flexibility

“We aim to make landlords and their tenants’ lives easier by giving them everything they need, and nothing they don’t,” said RentRedi CEO and co-founder Ryan Barone. Continue reading

Avenue One nets $100M in sign of SFR-market evolution

Single family rentals, collectively, is now officially an asset class of real estate investment, and the $100 million funding of Avenue One, a technology company born to support it, is another example of the category’s evolving presence on Wall Street. Continue reading

Economic anxiety accelerated Q1 multifamily rent growth slump

Inflation and recession fears pushed renters away from higher-priced, amenity-rich developments as rent growth at the highest tiers slowed to 1.5 percent annually, according to a new CoStar analysis. Continue reading

‘Survive till 2025’: New supply, low demand signal rental ‘sh#tstorm’

Markets across the country are now facing a possibility of rent falling year over year amid a negative outlook for apartments and commercial real estate broadly, experts told Inman. Continue reading

Rent dropped last month at one of the biggest rates in over a decade

Aside from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the month-over-month decline was the biggest drop in rent prices since 2010. Rent remains up 7.6 percent year over year, but the market is softening. Continue reading