According to Yardi’s U.S. Multifamily Outlook for Winter 2026, the multifamily market begins 2026 with weak performance metrics that should improve during the year. They say while demand cooled in the second half of 2025, rent growth is feeling the impact of high-supply markets battling the result of years of robust supply growth. However, they predict performance will pick up in 2026 as the economy regains its footing and excess supply gets absorbed. Indeed…
The U.S. economy faces competing pressures that should produce moderate growth in 2026, though conditions remain fluid enough that outcomes could reasonably shift. Those pressures include the direction of interest rates, the Federal Reserve’s focus on job growth versus inflation, layoffs versus new hires, the impacts of immigration policy and artificial intelligence, and the bifurcation of consumer health between the top and bottom of the income distribution.
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