{"id":5,"date":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/thompsonwarner-com\/2026\/08\/31\/us-vacancy-dips-but-stabilized-assets-lag\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","slug":"us-vacancy-dips-but-stabilized-assets-lag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thompsonwarner.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/31\/us-vacancy-dips-but-stabilized-assets-lag\/","title":{"rendered":"US Vacancy Dips, but Stabilized Assets Lag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/anthony-warner\/apartment-vacancy-drops-remotion-videos-1f5c\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>US apartment vacancy eased to ~8% in Late-Q2 2026, but most improvement came from newly delivered communities leasing up, not stronger performance across established inventory.<br \/>\nQuarterly absorption reached ~164K units, topping ~118K new units added, yet stabilized properties still saw vacancy \u2191~35 basis points yearly overall nationally.<br \/>\nHigh-end four- and five-star apartments captured ~70% of demand, and overall vacancy in that segment improved while stabilized luxury properties faced tougher backfilling.<br \/>\nThe national gap between overall and stabilized vacancy reached ~50 basis points, showing new lease-ups did the heavy lifting as older properties faced leasing pressure.<br \/>\nThrough coming quarters, headline vacancy may keep improving, but existing properties could stay pressured into 2027 as operators emphasize retention, incentives, and repositioning.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US apartment vacancy eased to ~8% in Late-Q2 2026, but most improvement came from newly delivered communities leasing up, not stronger performance across established inventory. Quarterly absorption reached ~164K units, topping ~118K new units added, yet stabilized properties still saw vacancy \u2191~35 basis points yearly overall nationally. High-end four- and five-star apartments captured ~70% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thompsonwarner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thompsonwarner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thompsonwarner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thompsonwarner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thompsonwarner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thompsonwarner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thompsonwarner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thompsonwarner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thompsonwarner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}