Philadelphia's large size and
high vacancy rate of 9 percent help mitigate some of the rent impacts of the Amazon HQ2.
If the new Amazon HQ2 came to town, Detroit would see moderate rather than severe rent increases, largely because of
its high vacancy rate of 11 percent and its ability to add new housing stock rapidly.
For instance, the National Association of Realtors reports that in 2014, San Jose, CA had a low vacancy rate of 4.0 %, while Ocean City, NJ had
a high vacancy rate of 58.4 %.
If the new Amazon HQ2 came to town, Detroit would see moderate rather than severe rent increases, largely because of
its high vacancy rate of 11 percent and its ability to add new housing stock rapidly.
Philadelphia's large size and
high vacancy rate of 9 percent help mitigate some of the rent impacts of the Amazon HQ2.
Although Chicago does not have
the highest vacancy rates of the metros studied, it does have the most overall vacant units due to its large housing stock and 8.6 percent vacancy rate.
Not exact matches
With a reputed
vacancy rate of less than 2 % on more than 40 million square feet
of industrial, office and retail property in the GTA, the company is known for moving fast, despite the
high - octane distraction
of the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Fidani's pet project.
CB Richard Ellis director
of office leasing Andrew Denny said that even these figures masked an unrealistically
high future CBD
vacancy rate.
Because the New York metro area — including all five boroughs, not just super-expensive Manhattan — has a huge population and a relatively
high vacancy rate, an influx
of even 50,000 new workers wouldn't mean much in the greater scheme
of things.
With
high retail
vacancies in Southwestern Ontario and an unemployment
rate of 9.6 percent in Windsor, Ontario, a stronger and more profitable retail sector should be desired, not feared.
Office buildings located within 500 meters
of rapid transit stations generally benefit from lower
vacancy rates and
higher rents than those areas not served directly by rapid transit.
As larger metros with
high vacancy rates, Philadelphia and Detroit have a significant amount
of slack in their housing market, helping protect these cities from more significant rent increases.
Luckily, Austin has a bit more slack in its housing market, with a
vacancy rate of 8 percent and a
higher rate of permitting compared to job growth.
In Sydney and Melbourne, rental growth is being constrained by
high vacancy rates relative to levels
of the past.
It is designed to force out -
of - province owners to contribute more to B.C. government coffers or rent out their homes in cities where rents are sky -
high and
vacancy rates less than one per cent.
According to a recent Bloomberg report, the property is loosing money because
of its
high vacancy rate and debt cost.
Vacancy rates in both cities have declined a little recently, but remain at
high levels and could move
higher as a large number
of new apartments comes on stream.
Memphis ended 2017 with an overall
vacancy rate of 14.8 percent, which is up slightly from where the year started at 14.5 percent — the
highest level in three years.
Nurses are spread too thin
High turnover and
vacancy rates in nursing mean you're more likely than ever to have an overstretched nurse at the other end
of that call button, according to an April 2008 statement from the American Association
of Colleges
of Nursing.
For reducing the achievement gap between the Atlanta Public Schools and the State
of Georgia, lowering the dropout
rate, cutting back the number
of teacher
vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some
of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations
highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council
of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall Conference.
Four
of the five districts with the
highest teacher
vacancy rates in the state are located in the eastern region, and all five districts are rural.
Four out
of five districts in the state with the
highest teacher
vacancy rates last school year are in Eastern North Carolina.
Last school year, the rural school system had the fifth
highest teacher
vacancy rate in the state, shows a report from the North Carolina Department
of Public Instruction.
Provincial Finance Minister Mike de Jong says he unveiled the tax as part
of legislation aimed at addressing low
vacancy rates and
high real estate prices in southern B.C.
According to the study the three main reasons for the dismal returns were: over-supply,
high costs and expenses
of the resort, and inaccurate
vacancy rate predictions.
This, and the
high (but steadily reducing)
vacancy rate of 22 %, really highlights the huge embedded potential in SRE's portfolio.
Deteriorating conditions
of the properties,
higher vacancy rates or tenants that do not make their rent payments can negatively affect your payouts or the value
of your investment.
Even with 427 available rooms, it's still better to book at least a week in advance or you run the risk
of not finding any
vacancies, or face significantly
higher rates.
Oddly enough, letters
of interest have
high success
rates so writing one is a good idea even if there isn't a
vacancy, as your resume will be kept for a future one.
The apparent contradiction
of a strong investment market at a time
of high vacancy rates is at odds with a commercial real estate rule
of thumb: Property sales rise when leasing is strong.
According to RealtyTrac data and NJ.com, the
rate of vacant homes in the Atlantic City area is 3.7 %, which makes it one
of the top five metro areas with the
highest vacancy rates in the U.S..
Could this be because
of higher relative
vacancy rates and / or expected new construction?
The number
of apartments available will finally grow decisively faster than the number
of people looking for apartments, pushing
vacancy rates higher and rent growth down, experts says.
However, investment into life sciences commercial real estate hasn't slowed down: five
of the six markets with the
highest life sciences rents have
vacancy rates of less than 4.0 percent, according to the JLL report.
The number
of new lease agreements signed fell 14 percent to 5,099 and the
vacancy rate shot up to 2.51 percent, tied for the
highest for May in data going back to late 2006.
Apartments, lofts, condominium and residential mixed - use developments are the biggest investor plays due to
high demand, low
vacancy (3.8 percent), elevated rental
rates, and the return
of a strong condo market.
The North County sub-market in the San Francisco area has a
vacancy rate of 0.5 percent and rent growth
of more than 51 percent year - over-year, currently averaging almost $ 58 per sq. ft.. Other
high - rent, low -
vacancy sub-markets include Torrey Pines in San Diego (3.3 percent
vacancy and $ 427.40 per sq. ft. average rent), Lake Union in Seattle (2.6 percent
vacancy and $ 43.87 per sq. ft. average rent) and Philadelphia's Central Business District (CBD)(1.5 percent
vacancy and $ 28 per sq. ft. average rent).
Due to overbuilding in the early 1990s, the market has an excess supply
of space and the
highest vacancy rate (10.31 %) in the tri-county area.
At the end
of the second quarter,
vacancy rates at neighborhood and community shopping centers hit their
highest level in nearly four years, according to Reis Inc..
Despite
high vacancy rates in a large part
of the country, both asking and effective rents are rising.
Cheap homes have
higher vacancy rates and more problem tenants, but you get the benefit
of three properties instead
of one.
Renter
vacancy rates mirrored those
of homeowners:
highest outside metro areas at 9.6 percent followed by inside principal cities at 6.9 percent and in suburban areas at 6.0 percent.
Prologis executives note that their examination
of top markets and the firm's own holdings show that global industrial
vacancy rates should remain low, and rents
high, for the next several years.
That low supply, coupled with demand from better - performing retailers for quality space, helped push rents across all types
of retail real estate
higher and
vacancy rates down to about 10 percent at the end
of 2015 from 11.1 percent in 2011 — as retailers slowly shrugged off the recession's
vacancy spike.
While southern Johannesburg has historically been plagued by
high vacancy rates in its old buildings, the area is now showing one
of the lowest
vacancies.
High vacancy rates continue to put a damper on commercial borrowing, agrees Samuel Miller, co-chairman and treasurer
of Cleveland, Ohio - based Forest City Enterprises.
Homeowner
vacancy rates were again
highest outside metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) at 2.0 percent, ahead
of in principal cities at 1.6 percent and in suburbs at 1.5 percent.
Most
of the properties available in that size range have very
high vacancy (40 - 50 %), have been filled with anyone with a heartbeat to boost numbers, or the cap
rates are half that.
«The positive impact
of the new Liberal government, extremely low
vacancy rates and some
of the lowest inventories in years should result in
higher demand, which will contribute to steady increases in property values throughout the city,» he says.
Newer properties, particularly those located in
high - density areas with strong employment, report even lower
vacancy rates, says Julie Taylor, senior vice president
of the Retail Services Group at Cornish & Carey Commercial Newmark Knight Frank in San Francisco.