Multifamily - Market Comparison Tool
Annual, year end for stocks (vacancy, rent, inventory); flows summed by calendar year (deliveries, absorption, starts) and shown as a share of the prior year's stock. The open point is Q2 2026, the latest CoStar quarter: stocks as reported, first-half flows and rent growth annualized; job, population and income growth rates end at 2025 (their levels carry the Q2 point). Median household income (CoStar) starts in 2005. Groupings are inventory-weighted for rates and rents and summed for flows. Source: CoStar, As Of 2026 Q2.
Each line is that market's own equation from the Market Prediction Tool, fitted on 2002 to 2025 with the other drivers held at the market's averages; groupings show the inventory-weighted average of their members' lines. R² is each market's own.
Six standard measures, 2010 to Q2 2026 (open point), same markets. No controls: this is the "at a glance" view.
Sources
- CoStar Group, multifamily DataExport for 394 U.S. metros, Q1 2000 to Q2 2026, As Of 2026 Q2, annualized: inventory, vacancy, effective rent, deliveries, net absorption, starts, population, households, total employment and median household income (from 2005), one MSA per market. Groupings are computed from the 37 largest metros by inventory: regions as on the Market Prediction Tool; Growth and Mature thirds by 2001 to 2025 population growth; Large 12 by inventory. costar.com
- Fitted relationships are those of the Multifamily Interactive Market Prediction Tool, each market on its own 2002 to 2025 history, never pooled; the equations and their R² are shown under the Formula fits chart.
- Federal Reserve H.15 via FRED, GS5 (5-year Treasury), and FRED CPIAUCSL (December) for the inflation-adjusted rent fits. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GS5