Published July 14, 2006

We update our online database with the most recent sales of 5 unit and larger apartment properties in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties at least once a week and almost every Friday morning. As a result, subscribers to our Apartment Advisor can access a Weekly Apartment Investment Update report online every Friday morning that updates apartment investment trends using the most recent sales from our online database. Subscribers can also print out a 5 page PDF of this weekly update. This video and article gives you a look inside the Weekly Apartment Investment Update.

• If you subscribe to The Apartment Advisor, log in to your account then scroll down your "My account" page to read or download the current Weekly Apartment Investment Update.

Report overview

The report includes a brief discussion of apartment sale trends over the past two years, 14 graphs showing monthly changes in various investment indicators, a table comparing investment indicators over the past six months with the prior six months, and a list of the five most recent sales.

Investment indicators monitored

The weekly report includes 14 graphs that show monthly sales trends for the following:

• price per unit and price per net rentable square foot,
• gross income multiplier (actual and anticipated),
• capitalization rate (actual and anticipated),
• spreads (actual versus anticipated multipliers and cap rates),
• average rent in sales ($/unit and $ per net rentable square foot),
• expenses (per unit, per net rentable square foot, and % of scheduled gross income),
• net operating income per unit,
• assessed value as a percent of sale price,
• sales volume, (total dollar volume and number of sales)

Geography, property size, and property age groups

This report presents sales trends for all 5 unit and larger sales, all age groups combined, for King, Pierce and Snohomish counties combined.

Subscribers to our Apartment Investment Report can create more customized reports of sale trends by defining their own market area and selecting any property size range and age range they want to analyze. They can also look at trends over a longer time period and have access to more individual sales and more information about each sale.

Screen shots

Here are some screen shots of the Weekly Apartment Investment Update:

Introduction

Discussion of market trends

Monthly trend graphs

Table of key trends

List of recent sales

PDF download

You can download a professionally formatted 5 page PDF of the Weekly Apartment Investment Update. It includes your name, company, and contact information, as well as all of the discussion, tables, and graphs shown above.

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May 22, 2013

Fred Reininger: Washington Federal has subscribed to Dupre + Scott for many years and find it an invaluable tool for underwriting our multifamily loans. The Apartment Advisor keeps us up date on trends in the marketplace so we can keep our underwriting current. What helps us the most is having access to the on-line rent, vacancy, and expense report generating capabilities. These tools let us tailor the reports we generate to a specific market area for the type of apartment building we are looking at financing. From these reports we can see what the vacancy is in the area and if owner’s expense numbers look reasonable, allowing us to be more confident in the letter-of-interest and loan applications that we issue. I highly recommend Dupre + Scott to anyone with a vested interest in the apartment market. (Fred is Senior Vice President and manager of Income Property Financing for Washington Federal Savings in Seattle.)