INCREASE IN RENTERS WANTING SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES FUELING BUILD-TO-RENT MARKET

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Publish Date: 02-10-2017

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Phoenix area – Following a trend that shows an increasing number of single-family homes in the U.S. being occupied by renters, there is a parallel pattern traceable to a spike in demand from those wanting to live in newly-built residences in traditional neighborhoods without having to buy the houses. While there are varying explanations for the 50-year low in the rate of home ownership in the country, most agree it is a good time to own single-family rental properties in the Valley and other markets. The number of renter households in the country increased by 9 million between 2005 and 2015, representing the largest increase over any 10-year period on record, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. In 2016, roughly 5 percent of all newly-built homes were constructed for renters. That market share becomes more impressive when considering the historical average is less than 3 percent. In the first part of this story (see related story HERE), BREWreported BlankBerger of Scottsdale finding a niche developing single-family rental housing in the Valley through its subsidiary BB Living Residential LLC. The individually-platted units, which are being built by BlankBerger, a subsidiary of Higley Homes, fall within a new sub-category of single-family rentals called “build-to-rent.” BlankBerger was formed by investors Matt Blank and Sam Blank of Blank Property Group LLC in New York City, N.Y. and Darryl Berger of Berger Holdings LLC in Scottsdale. After building 300 units in the Phoenix area in 2016 with its BB Living Residential brand, BlankBerger plans to develop 500 homes in 2017. BB Living has deals pending to acquire land in the Valley targeted for several hundred additional build-to-rent units. BlankBerger is scouring the Phoenix area looking for 10- to 20-acre parcels of land suitable for high-density residential with 100 to 200 units . . . prefers master-planned communities with significant amenities. The BB Living Residential founders are on a different track than the one they first started down several years ago when the opportunistic investors were buying distressed residential properties in the Phoenix market. The company now has a clear-cut strategy with a promising business model. The Blanks and Berger are “laser-focused” on managing the 685 single-family rental units either completed or planned in five BB Living Residential projects and “finding prime land for future development.” BlankBerger has evolved over the past five years, developing single-family rentals in three of the top-selling master-planned communities in the Valley. The company has come upon its success honestly. “We stumbled into this niche,” says Berger. “We started the business in 2011 by acquiring existing, scattered single-family rentals throughout the Valley. We were attracted to the notion of building a concentration of single-family rentals in one community, especially new homes. We were pioneering, but our first project was highly successful and we grew from there.” So far, BlankBerger is pretty much flying solo in the Valley as a developer of single-family rental homes that can be leased and held for investment, sold to individuals or sold in bulk to a highly-competitive group of private and institutional investors. “In the Valley we do not currently have competition for what we do, which is to build a “horizontal apartment” of single-family platted rental homes,” says Berger. “We describe our product as “horizontal apartment” as it differs from a traditional stacked-flat apartment building where units are on top of one another, where there are typically no attached garages, and where the units are platted multi-family instead of single-family, meaning that they can’t be sold individually.” NexMetro Development LLC in Phoenix may be the closest competitor to BlankBerger and BB Living. That privately-owned company, headed by Ken Abrahams, has been successful developing build-to-rent product in communities with the Avilla Homes brand name. NexMetro also develops a “horizontal apartment” but its projects are platted multi-family instead of single-family, which excludes the possibility of individual sales. The Avilla Homes residences are also smaller (600 sq. ft. to 1,250 sq. ft.) and they do not have attached garages, but they do have private backyards. The company has more than 1,500 units either completed, under construction or under contract in the Valley. NexMetro is in the process of selling Avilla Palm Valley, a 125-unit project in Goodyear that the company developed in 2015. Berkadia is marketing the project as a multi-family asset. NexMetro built 400 units in the Phoenix area in 2016, and plans to deliver another 500 homes in 2017. NexMetro is now leasing from three active projects in the Valley and is underway with construction on five other communities. The company also develops build-to-rent complexes in Tucson and Dallas, Tex. “Avilla Homes offer a lifestyle choice,” says Josh Hartmann, chief operating officer at NexMetro. “It’s for those who want to live in a new home, but don’t want the burden of maintenance and constraints of a mortgage.” The build-to-rent market has been growing significantly over the past several years. With a portfolio of 48,431 units in the U.S., Invitation Homes Inc. in Dallas, Tex. (NYSE:INVH) is the country’s largest single-family home rental company. Blackstone Group L.P. in New York City, N.Y. (NYSE:BX), which manages $102 billion in real estate assets around the world, started Invitation Homes in 2012 by acquiring large pools of foreclosed homes. The global investment firm began buying the residences in bulk about five years after the housing market started to crash. Blackstone Group and other institutional investors were able to scoop up tens of thousands of foreclosed homes at significant discounts and repositioned the residences as rental properties. Invitation Homes owns rentals in nine states, predominantly located in the southeastern and western U.S., including the Phoenix area. Housing markets throughout the country have stabilized in recent years, prices have been rising steadily and the large pools of lender-owned homes have dried up. Two weeks ago, Invitation Homes raised $1.54 billion in an initial public offering after Blackstone Group took the company public. Shares in the company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 1. Three weeks ago, Fannie Mae announced that it will be backing up to $1 billion in debt held by Invitation Homes. This is the first time the government-controlled company has agreed to guarantee the debt of an institutional owner of single-family homes. The move suggests Fannie Mae believes home ownership will remain out of reach for many people and ultimately will make it cheaper for buyers like Invitation Homes to acquire more inventory. As of Sept. 30, 2016, American Homes 4 Rent in Agoura Hills, Calif. (NYSE:AMH) owned 48,153 single-family residences in 22 states, and Colony Starwood Homes in Scottsdale (NYSE:SFR) owned 30,000 + units in nine states. Progress Residential, another Scottsdale-based firm, owns the fourth largest pool of U.S. homes with 20,000 + units in 10 states. Find out more from the principals of BlankBerger by calling (480) 922-5965.

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