Chad Lafferty
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Chad Lafferty
@LaffertyC
Commercial Mortgage Banker located in AZ. I enjoy learning new things and discovering the tiny joys of life.


The Austin, TX rental market is collapsing before our eyes. With the median apartment rent dropping 15% over the last 2+ years. The vacancies have skyrocketed. Rental concessions are everywhere. Rents are now only 9.8% higher than pre-pandemic. Meaning that many Austin landlords are losing money, as property taxes, insurance, and interest costs are way higher. (This is a harsh lesson on the boom/bust cycle in real estate for many developers and investors who bought into Austin during the boom. Read more below to see how this happened.)






Basically all of America’s best-loved neighborhoods were built before zoning and the overwhelming majority of them would be illegal to build today.




















