Has The Rental Market bottomed?
SFGate reports that San Francisco rents may have finally hit bottom. The rental market may be reflecting the action in the recent Game Stop trading. Never try to catch a falling knife in stock trading, which begs the question, what does one apply to property rentals? Apartment List shows that rents fell just .4%, while Zumper is reporting prices actually rose .8%. After monumental declines of 25% and 27%, depending on which service you wish to follow, even a minimal loss or gain is noteworthy. It questions the point of who will be the parties renting? The techies have departed from the Bay Area to parts unknown, whether it be to Hawaii or parts east of the Bay Area or even out of state. After the rise in unemployment benefits, checks from the US treasury, matched with renter relief from the State of California, the poor souls who lost their homes or apartments to soaring rents replaced by Techies coming to Facebook, Google, Yelp and the like, have the opportunity to come back