Rent Controlled Markets

76% of Apartment Leaders Report Pullback from Rent-Controlled Markets by John Triplett

For years, the NMHC Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions has provided a snapshot of the apartment market, including trends in sales, equity financing and debt financing. In the first survey of 2026, NMHC included a special question examining the impact of rent regulation. NMHC compared this year’s results to those of the January 2022 survey. The comparison shows that over the last four years: The share…