Insurance Is Taking a Bigger Bite Out of Apartment Revenue
Why this matters
Multifamily has been the most actively underwritten sector through the rate cycle, with cap rate compression resuming in Sun Belt and gateway markets as 2024-2025 deliveries roll off and refinance demand on 2021-vintage bridge loans clears. Transaction velocity is up modestly, concentrated in stabilized Class A and grocery-adjacent garden assets. Allocators continue to favor residential for its income durability and its insulation from secular demand questions that still hang over commercial sectors.
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- Disclosed multifamily deal value tracked in October 2026: $5B across 58 reported transactions. All Multifamily coverage →
Computed from Real Estate Trail’s own tracked coverage
In 2019, a Louisiana apartment property financed in a commercial mortgage-backed securities or Freddie K-Series deal spent about $4.77 on insurance for every $100 of revenue it collected. By 2025, that figure was $9.4…
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