10 Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today (Jan. 9, 2021) NMHC’s first rent payment tracker numbers for 2021 show that 76.6 percent of renters had paid full or partial rent by January 6. Before Trump supporters turned violent at the Capitol they had been providing a boost to local hotel occupancies, reports Bisnow. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.
NMHC Rent Payment Tracker Finds 76.6 Percent of Apartment Households Paid Rent as of January 6 “The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)’s Rent Payment Tracker found 76.6 percent of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by January 6 in its survey of almost 11.3 million units of professionally managed apartment units across the country.” (
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The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)’s Rent Payment Tracker found 76.6 percent of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by January 6 in its survey of almost 11.3 million units of professionally managed apartment units across the country.
This is a 1.7 percentage point, or 192,613 household decrease from the share who paid rent through January 6, 2020 and compares to 75.4 percent that had paid by December 6, 2020. These data encompass a wide variety of market-rate rental properties across the United States, which can vary by size, type and average rental price.
“While there is light at the end of the tunnel with the rollout of vaccines, the country and the multifamily industry continue to face steep challenges,” said Doug Bibby, NMHC President, “The recently passed COVID relief package included $25 billion in desperately needed rental assistance as well as expanded unemployment insurance. Now, it is critical that those fun