Rental Communities Package
A comprehensive overview of apartment and build-to-rent (BTR) dynamics and economic outlook.
OVERVIEW
Rental Communities Package
A complete look into the multifamily sector, including apartments and dedicated build-to-rent communities. A deep dive into the sector’s major markets, including forecasts, rental market ratings, key fundamentals, economic drivers, demographics, and the impact of alternative housing sectors.
Monitor activity for over 275K existing and coming-soon build-to-rent units and millions of apartment units.
This package's flagship report is a deep dive into apartment and BTR market fundamentals, including rent growth, occupancy, supply pipeline, cap rates, affordability, and demographics. Our take on what’s happening in the rental communities sector incorporates economic and single-family market insight.
Monthly data for 50 metro areas.
We provide monthly data and forecasts for 50 metro areas identified as top rental community markets (e.g., rent growth, occupancy, multifamily permits, pipeline detail, single-family home price appreciation, and much more).
Summary of six top public apartment REIT’s quarterly earnings calls.
Summary of key performance statistics and market insight from six publicly traded apartment REITs: AvalonBay Communities, Camden Property Trust, Equity Residential, Essex Property Trust, Mid-America Apartments, and UDR, Inc. The report covers rent growth trends, turnover, occupancy, NOI, and portfolio concentration. We also summarize the earnings calls with high-level performance statistics.

OUR CLIENTS
Who utilizes this membership package
Outperform your competition by aligning your strategic decisions with current and forecasted market conditions in the housing industry.

Apartment Operators
Gain a complete understanding of major apartment markets through JBREC research, including macro drivers, demand, supply, demographic trends, and forecasts. Make strategic investment decisions whether you acquire, build, or operate apartments.

Build-to-Rent Operators
Stay informed on the emerging BTR industry through JBREC research and consulting data. Make strategic investment decisions using our extensive BTR rent, occupancy, and supply data in top markets across the country.

Builders and Developers
Evaluate opportunities in the rental space with confidence using JBREC forecasts. Understand the rental communities sector better with an accurate and timely view of the industry’s fundamentals, trends, key macro drivers, and major players in the space.

Private Equity
Make informed decisions by understanding the apartment and BTR industry’s key indicators, economic drivers, and the industry’s largest players. Evaluate a metro’s strength using JBREC forecasts, demographic research, and local insight.

Institutional Investors
Trade confidently, knowing the full picture of the rental housing market through JBREC’s comprehensive and unbiased research. Use our timely and accurate reports to evaluate market fundamentals, economic drivers, and the industry’s largest players.
Need a membership for scattered-site single-family rental instead? Our Single-Family Rental Package is designed for you!
Our Single-Family Rental 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.


Flagship Report
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.
Data from up to 50 metro areas identified as top rental community markets
Supply, demand, and affordability metrics that benefit industry participants
Most relevant data points in a simple, easy-to-read report
- Data from up to 50 metro areas identified as top rental community markets
- Supply, demand, and affordability metrics that benefit industry participants
- Most relevant data points in a simple, easy-to-read report
Receive accurate answers for these critical questions
What does the supply pipeline look like for build-to-rent and apartments? Which markets will see the most supply?
What is the outlook for the build-to-rent and apartment industry by market?
Should I invest in the apartment and build-to-rent market?
Where are the top six Apartment REITs concentrated? Where are they expanding?
Who are the largest players in the build-to-rent and apartment industries? Who plays in both?
Which public apartment REITs are best positioned based on market fundamentals? How have they performed historically?
Receive accurate answers for these critical questions
What does the supply pipeline look like for build-to-rent and apartments? Which markets will see the most supply?
What is the outlook for the build-to-rent and apartment industry by market?
Should I invest in the apartment and build-to-rent market?
Where are the top six Apartment REITs concentrated? Where are they expanding?
Who are the largest players in the build-to-rent and apartment industries? Who plays in both?
Which public apartment REITs are best positioned based on market fundamentals? How have they performed historically?
What’s Included
- Rental Communities Analysis and Forecast
Quarterly
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.
- US Housing Analysis and Forecast
Monthly
Our national housing thesis on all macro US issues impacting the housing market. Insights and analysis on economic growth and risks, consumer behavior and finances, mortgage underwriting and policy, first-time and investor buyer activity, and national demand and supply.
- Client Portal
Through our portal, clients have quick access to their subscription resources such as reports, surveys, webinars, whitepapers, and more.
- Burns Interactive Dashboards
An exciting way to access our industry-leading research. Our interactive platform allows you to visualize, analyze, and compare our extensive housing research and data.
- Home Builder Survey
Monthly
Our monthly survey delivers the most timely and accurate insights for new home market conditions, capturing feedback from production home builders across the country.
- Residential Land Survey
Quarterly
Our quarterly residential land survey presents data and sentiment from the top residential land brokers in numerous metros across the country.
- Real Estate Agent Survey
Monthly
Our real estate agent survey gauges the pulse of the US resale housing market and drives the Burns Resale Housing Market Index (RHMI).
- Fix and Flip Survey
Quarterly
The quarterly fix and flip Survey provides a new pulse on the fix-and-flip sector, combining data and sentiment to generate the Fix and Flip Market Index (FFMI).
- Rental Communities Market Fundamentals
Monthly
A resource that offers pertinent monthly apartment and build-to-rent data to help you understand past, current, and projected growth for the rental communities market.
- White Papers
Our white papers are in-depth studies of structural shifts in the housing market and economy.
- Apartment REIT Earnings Summary
Quarterly
A summary of key performance statistics and market insight reported from six publicly traded Apartment REITs.
- Apartment REIT Individual Earnings
Quarterly
A summary of each of the Apartment REITs’ earnings calls for a quick and digestible performance overview.
- Burns Monthly Housing Market Update Webinar
Monthly
Our monthly webinar provides a forward-looking summary of the changing housing market. The webinar recording and slide deck are distributed to all clients after the live presentation.
- Client-Exclusive Events
Receive exclusive invitations to our hosted events where you’ll get to learn and network with a wide variety of industry experts.
- An Extension of Your Team
Our team lives and breathes the data needed to create and maintain a deep understanding of every aspect of the housing industry—from dirt to roof. Our company mission is to help executives make informed housing industry investment decisions.
- Ability to Request Data
As a client, you can request for certain data downloads for your own use.
- Email Distribution
Add as many team members as you want to receive the reports, surveys, and additional resources included with this package.
What’s Included

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New Home Trends Institute Membership
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.
This package includes
Burns Interactive Dashboards
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Research Membership Packages
Choose the membership packages that meet your specific needs. Our esteemed research members, experts in various segments of the housing industry, often subscribe to multiple packages in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the residential real estate industry.
Metro and Regional Housing Package
This package provides a complete picture of housing supply, demand, and affordability through local insight, proprietary surveys, and extensive data analysis. We currently offer an overview of major housing and economic trends across 100 MSAs nationwide.
What's Included?
- Metro Analysis and Forecast*
- Regional Analysis and Forecast*
- US Housing Analysis and Forecast
- Home Builder Survey
- Burns Interactive Dashboards
*You can choose between one of the flagship reports or subscribe to both depending on your coverage needs
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.
What's Included?
- Single-Family Rental Analysis and Forecast
- Rental Communities Analysis and Forecast
- Single-Family Rental Market Fundamentals
- Single-Family Rental Survey
- Single-Family Rental REIT Earnings Summary
- US Housing Analysis and Forecast
- Home Builder Survey
- Burns Interactive Dashboards
Rental Communities Package
This package provides complete look into the multifamily sector, including apartments and dedicated build-to-rent communities. A deep dive into the sector’s major markets, including forecasts, rental market ratings, key fundamentals, economic drivers, demographics, and the impact of alternative housing sectors.
What's Included?
- Rental Communities Analysis and Forecast
- Rental Communities Market Fundamentals
- Apartment REIT Earnings Summary
- US Housing Analysis and Forecast
- Home Builder Survey
- Burns Interactive Dashboards
Building Products Package
This package provides current, in-depth insight into building products industry conditions across the country, including a forecast for residential new construction and repair and remodeling spend over the next four years.
What’s included?
- Building Products Industry Analysis and Forecast
- Regional Analysis and Forecast
- Building Products Dealer Survey
- Building Products Earnings Summary
- Kitchen and Bath Market Survey
- US Remodeler Survey
- US Analysis and Forecast
- Home Builder Survey
- Burns Interactive Dashboards
Geographic Overview of the Public Home Builders Package
This package is designed for those who compare publicly-traded builders (including securities investors) to each other. Every month we rank each publicly-traded home builder based on the past, current, and forecasted performance of its geographic footprint.
What’s included?
- Home Builder Analysis and Forecast
- Regional Analysis and Forecast
- US Housing Analysis and Foreecast
- Home Builder Survey
- Burns Interactive Dashboards
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RESEARCH PACKAGES | Metro and Regional Housing Package | Single-Family Rental Package | Rental Communities Package | Building Products Package | Geographic Overview of the Public Home Builders |
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Featured Insights
- Insight
- Build-to-Rent
This summer, our New Home Trends Institute got inside the minds of 6,000+ build-to-rent tenants we surveyed.
- Insight
- Podcast
Stephanie Casper, the CRO of Kiavi, joins our podcast to discuss how Kiavi is leveraging proprietary technology to make the process of borrowing money for the purposes of investing in residential real estate easier for their customers.
What clients say about us
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.
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.
The JBREC reports, data and forecasts are a critical component to our decision making process as you are only as good as the information you rely on. JBREC are the foremost experts in our growing asset class and we are grateful for their long time support and pursuit of better information to serve the broader real estate market.
John Burns’ research is consistently comprehensive and thoughtful providing valuable insight into current and future market conditions. John Burns’ research and data is unmatched in quality and timeliness and is invaluable to successful execution in today’s residential real estate market.
We have been using and working with the JBREC group since the early days, dating all the way back to 2014. They have been a phenomenal resource in providing market intelligence before the rest of the world caught on to what we were up to. Today, they continue to be a beacon and leader nationally.
JBREC really is the industry reference for SFR data and research. The breadth of detail in the monthly US Housing Analysis and Forecast reports is really impressive, with 350+ pages of well presented data, analysis and insights every month.
Recent surveys and custom research provided by both the New Home Trends Institute and JBREC have provided valuable insight into consumer preferences in a post-pandemic environment. Guidance from their discussions, presentations, and monthly webinars have given us valuable context and help to keep us level-headed in a rapidly changing landscape. We’re grateful to have them as a resource every step of the way.
John Burns Research and Consulting continues to raise the bar as a trusted source of US housing analysis and has proven time and time again to be an invaluable partner when navigating new opportunities.
The John Burns Research Team truly looks at the market from each angle to provide us with timely and in-depth information. It’s invaluable!
We have leveraged JBREC substantially for a multitude of resources throughout the last 15 years. Their macro-level research has influenced our decisions at all levels of the business.
Contact us to maximize your opportunities in the housing market.
