359: Prices Are Declining For Multifamily Properties

After many years of escalating prices, it’s now a buyer’s market for institutional, quality multi-family assets. Institutions are on the sidelines as they rebalance investment portfolios, and it’s become much harder for newer operators to raise money. As a result, the buyer pool has shrunken, and prices have decreased. Class A, new vintage properties are selling for 10% off their peak in growing secondary markets in the Midwest. Ivan Barratt, Founder of the BAM companies, a fully vertically integrated Private Equity multifamily Real Estate firm, has close to 1 Billion in assets under management and has generated greater than a 35% IRR to investors with an average of a 3.5 year hold time.