How Apartments Have Prevailed During the Pandemic

Earlier this year, a leading equity crowdfunding site conducted what’s believed to be the largest-ever survey of individual real estate investors in order to gauge their appetite for investing in a pandemic. Despite the economic volatility, nearly all of the 1,240 investors surveyed (96 percent) plan to add commercial real estate to their portfolios in 2021.

Notably, a whopping 90 percent said they were likely to invest in multifamily. For comparison, less than half of investors expressed interest in office investments (47 percent), and even fewer were likely to consider retail (25 percent).

Given the challenges of the last 18 months, how has investor confidence in rental housing remained so strong? Multifamily was certainly not immune to the impacts of COVID-19, but it does have several strategic advantages.

 

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