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"Multiple new multifamily projects on tap, from The Domain to South Congress"

Posted by Grossman & Jones Group on June 6th, 2025

While deliveries of multifamily projects in the Austin area have been forecast to decline in the coming years, some are still being planned.

From The Domain to South Congress Avenue, developers have projects on tap ranging from townhome complexes to mid-rise apartment buildings, according to three site plan applications filed with the city. They're in the works at a time when uncertainty swirls around the metro's multifamily market and a number of other projects have been canceled or delayed.

Multifamily vacancy came in at 15.5% in April, according to ApartmentData.com, an elevated level that's a concern for developers and property managers because high vacancy rates lead to lower rental rates and less new development as investors hesitate to…

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"Austin rents lose steam, with second-steepest decline in December among major U.S. metros"

Posted by Grossman & Jones Group on February 12th, 2024

Austin American-Statesman reports, "just as it is a buyer's market in Central Texas' single-family housing market, so too is it a renter's market in the Austin-area apartment market.

Likely to the dismay of landlords and delight of tenants, Austin saw the second-steepest yearly decline among metros in the latest study by Rent.com.

Rents in Austin dropped 12.5% in December compared with December 2023, according to the study, which tracked rates in the nation's 50 largest metros.

Asking rents in Austin were $1,985 a month in December, versus $2,270 a month the prior December, the study said.

Austin's decline was followed by Raleigh, North Carolina, where rents dropped almost 12.2% to $1,873, and the Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise metro, where…

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"Where tens of thousands of new apartments will rise between Austin, San Antonio"

Posted by Grossman & Jones Group on October 12th, 2023

Austin Business Journal reports, "the San Antonio and Austin metros have more more than 55,000 apartment units under construction, highlighting the immense fortune developers are poring into the emerging metroplex.

Just looking at the I-35 corridor between the two big cities, 23,000-plus units are proposed, under construction or have come online in the past 12 months, according to data from MRI ApartmentData, a multifamily analytics firm tracking Sun Belt markets.

That shows multifamily developers and investors are eager to keep pouring money into dense housing in the region. To be sure, there are thousands of single-family homes in the pipeline as well, although many experts have said denser, more affordable housing is desperately needed to…

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