Dallas Multifamily Report – Spring 2019
The metro remains a national leader in job creation, with 102,500 positions added for a 2.6 percent expansion year-over-year in February, slightly above the national growth rate.
Dallas rent evolution, click to enlarge
Despite a development pipeline that brought online almost 95,000 units since 2014, the North Texas multifamily market continued to show healthy fundamentals last year and into the first quarter of 2019. Supply however dampened rent growth to a certain degree, bringing it to 2.8 percent year-over-year through March, slightly below the U.S. average.
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The metro remained a national leader in job creation last year, with the addition of 102,500 positions for a 2.6 percent expansion, 90 basis points above the U.S. figure. Professional and business services was the top-performing sector (22,800 jobs), followed by trade, transportation and utilities (21,400 jobs). Charles Schwab broke ground on a 70-acre office campus estimated to house some 8,600 employees once completed, while Infosys Ltd.’s tech innovation hub in Richardson is set to hire 500 people by 2020.
Dallas sales volume and number of properties sold, click to enlarge
More than 26,800 units were delivered in 2018 for a new cycle high, with an additional 44,700 apartments underway as of March. Following last year’s $5 billion transaction volume, investors already traded nearly $900 million in multifamily assets in the first quarter of 2019, at a per-unit price of $105,032. With rapid economic expansion and population gains slated to keep demand healthy, we expect the average Dallas–Fort Worth rent to rise 4.3 percent in 2019.
