Apartment vacancies reach 30-year high in the fourth quarter, and parents have dropped the owners were rushing to keep current and attract new tenants.
The level of opportunity to end the year with 8%, the highest level of Reis Inc., a New York company that oversees the investigation and the parents of vacancies in the top 79 U.S. markets, began his party in 1980.

Parents and year fell 3% last year, according to Reis, led to the fall in San Jose, California, Seattle, San Francisco and other cities that had a rapid growth of the economy.
In New York the best chance to level 0.1 percentage points for the second quarter of the same, but between 60% of rental housing of their parents fell in the fourth quarter compared with the previous quarter. Efficacy of parents, which include agreements as one month free - and fell 5.6% in New York last year, the worst since the Kings began tracking data in 1990.
Owners to attract tenants to renew leases. "We shampoo the carpet We color to accentuate the wall .. Add Starbucks card," said Richard Campo, chief executive of Camden Property Trust, headquartered in Houston real estate investment fund which has 63,000 units. He said that in the first half of 2010 should be "ugly", but optimistic about the industry, appear later this year.
few markets were not pardoned. In the fourth quarter, job offers increase to 52 markets, while the top 17 and remained stable in 10 Increasing the employment rate more than a year in Tucson, Arizona Charlotte, North Carolina and Lexington, Kentucky
Opportunity is linked to unemployment, as many aspiring tenants to move to family members or double the decline. Room has been set for young workers, which is more than recruitment, work experience during the absence of shelter.
Hit the landlords last year, competition from the new wave of giving birth to reach the market. 120,000 units were in the market last year, including some of the projects after being arrested and became the rent, the representation of many new construction since 2003, according to Reis.

Many of these problems and allow the money markets before they make loans. The credit crisis that has saved over new development, which means that the endings of apartments fell by half in 2011. It is a garrison Silver homeowners are limited new supply should be given the opportunity to increase parents quickly returned to their work and growth.
"As a place to rent, also now a good time to renegotiate the lease," said Victor Calanog, research director of the Kings, who added that the industry could see a recovery in the second half of the year, supported by both the increase in employment or at least the impression that the economy was back.

sobreabastecidos markets like Florida, Phoenix and Las Vegas is suffering, even though home sales picked up. "The owners or benefit, because work is not recovering," said Nadja Hessam, CEO of Marcus & Millichap, a real estate company.
Marcus and Millichap is a separate report Friday that the predictions of more than 2% and 3% decrease in fathers of apartments in the next year, most of which will focus on the next six months. The report predicts Washington, DC, will be healthier market rent in 2010 for the second year.

The efforts of the government sector kumwongezea housing market and threatened the house, making it easier for some farmers to buy a house. Some owners and a small upward move in the reports of farmers to buy a house. Approximately 13% Camden Resources was planning to move into a house to buy outs, 11% at the beginning of the year. But still half the amount of time between the onset of the housing boom, when mortgages were much less stringent standards. "The housing boom, can make people who are not qualified to rent the house, but he can buy a house half a million dollars," said Alexander Goldfarb, analyst at Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP.
Thanks to falling home prices and record low mortgage rates, now costs less to own over the last decade has been in the mortgage-payment of rent for the base. But parents should decrease to address some recent improvements in access, which is more attractive than renting your own in some markets.