Market Intelligence: Student Housing Year-End Wrap-Up
The Student Housing sector saw strong, though normalizing, performance throughout most of the Fall 2024 leasing season. While slowing momentum may affect the 2025 outlook, a healthy supply/demand balance looks to remain in place.
Join RealPage® market experts Carl Whitaker and Julia Bunch for an in-depth review of the key industry themes that they think will influence the near-term outlook for the Student Housing market. Will enrollment trends impact local demand patterns? Is investor sentiment changing for better or worse? Are demographic trends shifting, and how would that influence the outlook for 2025 and beyond?
As you wrap up 2024 and gear up for 2025, make sure your Student Housing strategies are well informed and poised for success.
Carl Whitaker is RealPage’s Chief Economist, leading the company's team of economists and market analysts. Carl and the Market Intelligence team specialize in analyzing and disseminating economic and market trends for the rental housing industry. He primarily focuses on presenting trends in the rental housing industry to a wide audience, including investors, asset managers, operations professionals and media, among other personas. Carl has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and GlobeSt and is a frequent keynote speaker for industry events. Carl holds degrees from the University of North Texas, including a Master of Science in Applied Geography.
Julia Bunch
Content Manager & Real Estate Writer, RealPage, Inc.Julia Bunch is the Content Manager and Real Estate Writer at RealPage, where she focuses on delivering data-driven insights into multifamily housing market trends. Julia has worked as a reporter, writer and editor covering commercial real estate, urban issues and economic development for publications such as D Magazine, Dallas-Fort Worth Real Estate Review, D CEO Magazine and Bisnow.
