Market Intelligence: Fall 2024 Student Housing Update
With Fall 2024 officially in the books, all eyes are now on the Fall 2025 leasing season.
Fall 2024’s performance showed the student housing sector remains resilient with solid demand supporting stable revenue growth. With fewer new beds scheduled to deliver in Fall 2025 than at any point in the past decade, what will the Fall 2025 leasing season look like? What demographic and economic trends may influence investment theses for the student sector? And finally, what are the expectations for Fall 2025 performance after a few years of very strong leasing activity and subsequent revenue growth?
Join RealPage® experts as they recap Fall 2024’s key performance themes and share their perspective on what will shape the outlook for Fall 2025.
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.
