What Changed on October 1

New Small Area Fair Market Rents are live, and in most of our markets the ZIP codes moved differently than the metro.

Oct 9 • Eve Moss

115

Five Stories, One City

Nationally, rent growth came down to supply. In Cleveland–Akron the same logic shows up class by class, far more sharply than it does nationally, and it…

Oct 1 • Eve Moss

98

September 2026

Rents Firm in August as the Midwest Holds Its Lead

National asking rents posted their strongest annual gain since early 2025. Every region but one improved on July, and the one that didn’t is still well…

Sep 25 • Eve Moss

119

Two Years Behind. Two Directions.

Eight years of federal benchmarks against eight years of actual rent. The lag runs about two years — and it leaves owners in two opposite positions.

Sep 10 • Eve Moss

52

August 2026

One Number, Five Stories

National rents edged up in July while occupancy eased — and the five regions underneath tell five different stories, written by who chased the 2022 rent…

Aug 13 • Eve Moss

135

1

5

July 2026

The Factor Isn’t the Market

Operating costs and market rents are two different numbers — and in a moving market, the two drift apart.

Jul 16 • Eve Moss

80

1

The Interval Between Uses

An old factory, a half-empty office tower, a closed school, a near-vacant sanctuary: each is priced twice — and the spread is the opportunity.

Jul 9 • Eve Moss

80

1

June 2026

Doom City, Reconsidered

Cleveland is betting its largest-ever industrial redevelopment on the near East Side’s dead land. Here’s what that does to demand — and value.

Jun 25 • Eve Moss

60

1

2

Section 8 Property Values: What They Actually Sell For

An active national market, a pricing range that runs from the teens to the six figures, and what determines where an asset lands. Data covers 50+ unit…

Jun 21 • Eve Moss

6

One Metro, Sixteen Markets

What Cleveland's 3.0% metro average hides: sixteen submarkets, from North Collinwood's +11% to South Collinwood's −1.3%.

Jun 18 • Eve Moss

65

1

3

May 2026

HUD Revises FY 2026 FMRs, Responds to Comments

Seven markets received revised FMRs effective May 21, 2026, alongside HUD's response to comments on the data lag in FMR methodology.

May 21 • Eve Moss

44

1

The Midtown Detroit Thesis

Wayne State University, Henry Ford Health, and the Woodward Corridor — the institutional infrastructure behind Midtown Detroit's residential market.

May 14 • Eve Moss

68