Trepp: Parkmerced Skews San Francisco’s Multifamily Risk as AI Fuels Nation-Leading Rent Growth
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. San Francisco continues to clear office at the deepest discounts to 2019 basis seen in the cycle, while multifamily fundamentals have stabilized and life sciences in the Peninsula remains active. 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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A new Trepp risk ranking puts San Francisco near the top of the West's most stressed multifamily markets, but the firm's own analysts say a single outsized loan on Parkmerced distorts the picture of a rental market th…
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