CRE42 Multifamily REIT Composite

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Selected Multifamily REITs

The CRE42 multifamily composite blends three public apartment REITs chosen to span the two poles of the US apartment market. AvalonBay Communities (AVB) is the largest of the three, a coastal and gateway landlord and developer concentrated in New England, Metro New York/New Jersey, the Mid-Atlantic, the Pacific Northwest, and Northern and Southern California, with roughly 99,000 apartment homes at year-end 2025. Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA) is a pure Sun Belt landlord with roughly 103,000 units across Atlanta, Dallas, Tampa, Charlotte, Austin, Nashville, and other southeastern and southwestern metros. Camden Property Trust (CPT) owns roughly 59,000 apartment homes across a different Sun Belt mix, led by Washington DC Metro, Houston, Phoenix, Dallas, and Atlanta. One coastal landlord plus two Sun Belt landlords give the composite exposure to both halves of the post-2021 supply divergence: the record wave of new apartment deliveries landed hardest in the Sun Belt markets MAA and CPT own.

Scale is balanced: at year-end 2025, stabilized TEV was $33.3B for AVB, $21.6B for MAA, and $15.3B for CPT, producing composite weights of roughly 47%, 31%, and 22%. No single component dominates the way BXP dominates the office composite at roughly two-thirds.
Weighting: per the project decision recorded in the companion workbook, the multifamily composite is STABILIZED-TEV-WEIGHTED: each REIT enters in proportion to its stabilized TEV for that fiscal year, the identical method used for the industrial and office composites.
The three components price together: 2025 stabilized implied cap rates were 6.06% (AVB), 6.35% (MAA), and 6.56% (CPT), a spread of 50 basis points; at the 2021 trough the three sat between 3.33% and 3.57%. The chart below shows the three tracking closely through the full decade, in contrast to the office components, which diverged sharply after 2022.
Basis differences: all three are carried on a consolidated basis (unconsolidated joint ventures are small for each). The AFFO adjustment is recurring capital expenditures rather than office-style tenant improvements and leasing commissions, which do not exist in apartments: AVB's measure is Asset Preservation Capex, MAA's and CPT's are recurring capitalized expenditures. AVB reports economic occupancy where MAA and CPT report physical. MAA's Series I preferred is treated as debt at liquidation value. The workbook's mapping notes document each difference.
Known terminal event: AvalonBay and Equity Residential announced an all-stock merger of equals in May 2026, expected to close in the second half of 2026. After close, AVB ceases separate filing and the composite will be rebuilt with a new lineup; the decision trail is recorded on the workbook Sources tab.

Component Pricing and Scale

Stabilized implied cap rate by component REIT (AVB, MAA, CPT) and TEV-weighted composite, 2016-2025

Source: Component FY2016–FY2025 Form 10-K and Q4 supplemental filings; CRE42-derived measures per the companion workbook.

Stabilized TEV by component REIT, 2016-2025, in billions of dollars

Source: Component FY2016–FY2025 Form 10-K and Q4 supplemental filings; CRE42-derived measures per the companion workbook.

Composite Construction

Every company-sourced figure (NOI, interest, land, development, debt, Core FFO, recurring capital expenditures, cash flow, distributions) is a TEV-weighted average across the three REITs, weighted by each REIT's stabilized TEV for that fiscal year. Calculation columns keep the identical formulas used on the single-company tabs, so the composite reads like a single large apartment REIT. The composite share price is composite market cap divided by composite share count, never a direct average of the three prices. MAA's 8.50% Series I preferred is treated as debt at liquidation value throughout. All figures are aggregate composite, not per share.

Notes

The composite is a synthetic construction; it is not a filing of any single company. Component figures trace to each company's Form 10-K and Q4 earnings release and supplemental for each fiscal year, per the Sources tab of the companion workbook. AVB year-end share prices are not published in its filings and are carried as market-data inputs sourced from AvalonBay investor relations historical data. A regional footprint cross-section (portfolio units by region and market) requires a separate property-table extraction and is not yet built for the multifamily components.

Companion workbook. multifamily-reit-metrics.xlsx – CRE42 multifamily REIT composite annual model (FY2016–FY2025), per-REIT and vs-market tabs, and market comparison data.