The Multifamily Data Download
News, tips, and updates from ApartmentIQ
Why Forecasting Demand Is the Hardest Part of Budget Season for Property Management Companies
60% of operators say forecasting demand is their biggest budget-season challenge. Here’s what our survey reveals about AI adoption, trust, and data.
How multifamily development teams go from site selection to stabilized with Explore Pro data
Explore Pro is ApartmentIQ’s market research product for pre-development decisions: draw a custom boundary, price the land to the parcel, and model a subject property against a live comp set.
Talk to your Market Surveys, in AI
Connect ApartmentIQ Market Surveys to Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot and ask questions of your live, unit-level comp data—no exports, no API keys, no stale files.
Case Study: How JPI Rebuilt Its Market Research On Daily Multifamily Data
JPI has made ApartmentIQ's daily, unit-level data a core input to its market research. Over the past four years, JPI has integrated that data directly into its analytics, research, and underwriting workflows. ApartmentIQ replaced JPI's manual comp surveys with...
How Property Management Companies Set Rents in 2026: What Top Operators Told Us
ApartmentIQ surveyed top multifamily operators, from sub-500-unit owners to 10,000-plus-unit portfolios across up to 16 markets, on how they actually set rents, review competitive data, and structure their pricing teams. The results show an industry that’s software-driven and high-frequency, but still short on confidence in its own numbers.
Why student housing operators need per-bed performance data
Student housing operators price by the bed, not the unit. Why per-bed performance data requires a different collection method — and what averages hide.
Pricing Through Volatility: How Multifamily Operators Can Make Smarter Decisions in a Concession-Heavy Market
Concession activity is diverging by region and class. See how multifamily operators can move beyond reactive pricing to make smarter, data-driven decisions.
Announcing 8M Customer Units on ApartmentIQ and a New $25M Investment
ApartmentIQ surpasses 8 million customer units and secures a new $25 million investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity to expand its market data platform and AI execution engine.
How to Run a Multifamily Market Survey in Canada
A practical guide to running apartment market surveys in Canada using the best data, refreshed daily
What Is a Rent Comp Set? A Guide for Canadian Apartment Operators
Learn how to build a rent comp set for Canadian apartment properties — including how purpose-built rental, condo rentals, and Canada’s listing ecosystem change comp selection.
What Makes Multifamily Market Data Accurate? Inside ApartmentIQ’s Data Collection Methods
How ApartmentIQ collects, validates, and refreshes multifamily market data every day — rent, occupancy, and concessions — and how every other data element earns its place in the platform.
Bottom-Up Rent Forecasting: Why We Build Apartment Market Forecasts From the Property Up, Not the Top Down
Most apartment rent forecasts start with the metro and work down. ApartmentIQ forecasts every property first, then aggregates up to submarket, ZIP, and metro. Here’s how that bottom-up methodology works—and why it’s more accurate.
Multifamily’s First Market Data MCP
ApartmentIQ launched multifamily’s first Market Data MCP, a connection that pipes its daily-refreshed market data directly into AI tools in plain language, no manual exports needed. It currently covers Explore Pro data, with a Bulk Data Exports option in closed beta and Market Surveys support on the roadmap.