Los Angeles Multifamily Report – February 2025
Going into 2025, the city mostly mirrored national trends.
Los Angeles’ fundamentals were a mixed bag at the end of 2024, and the January wildfires will likely put more pressure on the rental market, as well as the local economy. Average advertised asking rents were down 0.2 percent on a trailing three-month basis through December, to $2,619, on par with the U.S. figure. Occupancy in stabilized assets was up 10 basis points year-over-year as of November, to 96.0 percent.
Los Angeles job growth was 1.4 percent year-over-year through November, just 10 basis points ahead of the U.S. figure. Over the 12-month period ending in November, Los Angeles added 46,200 jobs. Education and health services (42,600 positions) and trade, transportation and utilities (10,100) led gains, while four other sectors lost a combined 13,700 jobs. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate clocked in at 5.4 percent in November, according to preliminary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, on par with California and trailing the U.S. (4.2 percent). Construction started on the Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility, a $1.6 billion project that will increase the volume of on-dock rail cargo the port can handle. The multiphase development is scheduled for a 2032 completion.
Developers completed 8,346 units in 2024, down by more than 40 percent year-over-year, in line with nationwide trends. Another 31,363 units were underway as of December. Investment volume neared $2.1 billion in 2024, for an average price per unit that rose 6.1 percent year-over-year, to $343,521.
