Residential For Rent
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Residential For Rent
WHO WE HELP
We help our clients make the most informed and confident decisions possible.
Single-Family Rental Operators
Receive a comprehensive view of the single-family rental industry’s major markets, including macro drivers, demand, supply, demographic trends, and forecasts. Our consultants help rental operators with capital allocations for their investment decisions.
Build-to-Rent Operators
Get strategic input for housing product, community amenities, and services to be offered—all with the associated revenue premiums.
Build-to-Rent Investors
Identify your rent positioning and lease-up targets for new build-to-rent communities by using JBREC's proprietary methodology and national database of build-to-rent projects.
Multifamily Developers
Make strategic housing investment decisions with JBREC’s forecast for the apartment industry and top markets. Get a competitive advantage in product strategy, rent expectations, and lease-up pace using our proprietary research and real-time data analysis.
Institutional Investors
Trade confidently with JBREC’s comprehensive single-family rental, build-to-rent, and multifamily research and consulting. Whether it's entering new markets or making acquisitions, we help institutional investors set realistic expectations for housing opportunities.
Private Equity
Evaluate new investments in the single-family rental, build-to-rent, or apartment space using JBREC’s analysis and forecasts. Understand the residential rental market fundamentals, trends, economic drivers, and largest players as you assess deals in the industry.
Master Plan and Mixed-Use Developers
Program build-to-rent neighborhoods or apartments within your master plans or mixed-use communities using our consulting team as a strategic guide.
IPO Underwriters
Get assistance during the IPO process by using our forward-thinking research and market analysis. Our consultants have assisted numerous for-sale builders and single-family for-rent operators over the past 10 years.
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
Make sound investment decisions with JBREC's expertise in due diligence, portfolio analysis, and local market intelligence.
How We Help
Get timely, reliable, and actionable insights.
Our experienced team of analysts and consultants helps our clients identify the best risk-adjusted investment opportunities.
Single-Family Rental Data
Receive JBREC’s detailed, monthly data on the single-family market. Utilize our research, data, and forecasts on 99 markets.
Proprietary Indices
Access JBREC’s proprietary indices, surveys, and models that deliver a unique viewofspecific single-family rental industry dynamics. Get vital metrics and forecasts, including effective rent growth, home price appreciation, gross rental yields, investor concentration, and more.
Apartment Research
Utilize JBREC’s apartment research that covers an overview of major housing and economic trends plus relevant forecasts across the top markets. Use our thoughtful analysis and forecasts based on both qualitative and quantitative metrics.
Single-Family Rental Survey
Discover current and future leasing conditions with the Single-Family Rental Survey—produced in association with the National Rental Home Council. Use this survey as your definitive gauge of professionally managed single-family rental industry conditions.
Residential For Rent Custom Consulting
Identify appropriate product, consumer targets, rent, and lease-up strategies for your community through the guidance of JBREC's consulting team.
Build-to-Rent Database
Gain access to JBREC’s geocoded database of ~650 active-leasing build-to-rent communities to understand the build-to-rent supply and competition in your market.
Consumer Research
Create enduring and thriving communities through our extensive consumer research. Our demand models bring together rents, incomes, and life stages to identify the right renter targets.
Single-Family Rental REIT Earnings Summary
Understand how some of the largest players in the industry performed every quarter with our analysis of the public single-family rental REITs’ earning performance.
Apartment REITs Earnings Summaries
Get JBREC’s summarized key performance statistics and market insight from the top public apartment REITs.
Invitations to Client-Exclusive Events and Webinars
Receive exclusive invitations to our hosted events, where you’ll get to learn and network with a wide variety of industry experts. Our monthly webinar provides a forward-looking summary of the changing housing market.
Recommended Research & Consulting
Research Memberships
Single-Family Rental Package
This package provides a comprehensive overview of the single-family rental (SFR) industry’s major markets, including forecasts, SFR market rankings, macro drivers, housing supply, and demographic trends.
included in this package
- Burns Single-Family Rental Analysis and Forecast
- Burns Single-Family Rental Market Fundamentals
- Single-Family Rental Survey
- Single-Family Rental REIT Earnings Summary
- Burns US Housing Analysis and Forecast Report
- Burns Interactive Dashboards
Rental Communities Analysis and Forecast
Every quarter, we provide a detailed look into the US apartment and build-to-rent industries, relevant macro drivers, outperforming/underperforming markets, for-sale housing market impact on rentals, and public-operator metrics.
The Rental Communities and Forecast is only offered as a subscription add-on. You must be subscribed to one of the main membership packages in order to subscribe to this report.
included in this Report
- Burns Apartment Rent Index™
- Burns Build-to-Rent Index™
- Burns Relative Cost of Dwelling – Apartments™
- Apartment REITs Earnings Summaries and Analysis
- Homeownership Premium
- Supply, Demand, and Occupancy
New Home Trends Institute Membership
CONSUMER AND DESIGN TRENDS
Backed by deep-dive research at JBREC and supported by our experts across the nation, the New Home Trends Institute pairs design inspiration with exclusive insights into the “why” behind consumers’ housing choices.
included in this Membership
- Monthly Survey Insights Reports
- DesignLens™ Database
- Customized Partnership Plans
- Annual New Home Trends Summit
- Exclusive Members-Only Councils
Consulting Services
Real Estate Consulting
Build-to-Rent, Single-Family Rental, Apartments
Our experienced team of consultants thrives on helping our clients make great investment decisions. We will be an extension of your team, helping develop the right strategy for your next project.
Capabilities
- Market Feasibility
- Rent Recommendations and Lease-up Targets
- Product Recommendations
- Master Plan Segmentation by Product Type
- Demand Analysis
- Consumer Targeting
- Amenity Analysis
- Market Expansion Strategy and Rankings
- Acquisition Due Diligence
- Portfolio Valuations and Cash Flows
- Highest and Best Use
- Mixed-Use Strategy
- Design Trends
- BTR Underwriting Criteria
- IPO Support
- Propprietary Database of Active and Planned BTR Communities
Case Studies
Solving today to help you navigate tomorrow.
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What our clients say about us
John Burns is our primary resource for up-to-date industry trends and has proven their unique value as a trusted partner in evaluating growth opportunities. When we started looking to expand our geographic footprint, there was no question who we would engage with. Working with John and his team was a great decision for our company.
Our first step on researching new BTR projects is to check John Burns market reports. It is the “level-set” we need to assess whether or not the project is aspirational or grounded in real-time metrics.
John Burns has been a significant resource for our teams across the Southwest region, assessing new business and evaluating existing developments. Their market-specific knowledge has been a great value-add for our local teams!
John and his team of housing experts provide the best and most accurate information on all of our housing markets and their forecasts are invaluable in guiding our business plans and investments
We highly value our business relationship with the entire John Burns Research and Consulting team who is always hyper responsive, approachable, polished and proficient. We highly cherish our partnership with JBREC, the housing industry’s top real estate research firm.
Featured Insights
- Insight
- Single-Family Rental
Here are three takeaways from the recent National Rental Home Council Industry Leaders Conference, where our CEO John Burns was a featured speaker.
- Insight
- National Housing Market Outlook
We learn a lot by tracking single-family asking rents on the available homes owned by the largest 23 single-family rental (SFR) operators who own 375K+ homes.
Contact us to maximize your opportunities in the housing market.
If you have any questions about our services or would like to speak to one of our experts about how we can help your business, please contact Client Relations at clientservices@jbrec.com.
