Vacancy Rates On the Decline?By: Nicholas A. Dunlap, CPMCB Richard Ellis reported today that multi-family vacancy rates in the United States will decline from their all-time high of 7.4% in 2009. While rents are down approximately 1% from the fourth quarter of 2009, job losses have slowed and thus, occupancy rates are increasing, pushing vacancy … Continue reading Vacancy Rates On the Decline? →