based in toronto Tricon Residential Inc.Overseeing a portfolio of more than 33,000 single-family rental homes in the United States and Canada, Arizona Retirement System (ASRS) will invest $500 million to build 2,500 rental homes in the US Sun Belt.
This latest transaction is the second joint venture between Tricon and ASRS. In 2019, they teamed up to take his $450 million equity investment and develop 2,000 new “for rent” homes.
In announcing its latest joint venture with ASRC, Tricon said, “We have already invested $1 billion in the development of new, high-quality rental homes and have a pipeline of over 7,000 new homes currently under development. ‘ said.
Gary Berman, CEO and President of Tricon, said: “Americans are facing a shortage of nearly 4 million homes for her, and families are struggling to find and buy quality homes.
“We have decades of experience in residential real estate development across the country and have once again worked with ASRS to build a new supply of high quality, professionally managed rental housing in communities where people want to live. We are excited to partner.”
Tricon is contributing to the nationwide surge in single-family rental (SFBFR) construction.Another large institutional operator of single family rentals (SFR) based in Scottsdale, Arizona Progress Residentialoperates approximately 85,000 SFR properties nationwide and in a recent press statement announced that it has approximately 2,600 rental housing units under development.
Analysis by National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) found that nearly 21,000 SFBFR construction began nationwide in the second quarter of 2022, a 91% increase from the same period in 2021.
“69,000 homes began construction in the last four quarters, a 60 percent increase compared to the 43,000 SFBFRs that started in the previous four quarters,” the NAHB report said. “…the SFBFR market is a way to add inventory amid challenges around housing affordability and down payment requirements in the sales market, especially at a time when more and more people are demanding more space and single-family construction.”
The institutional backed SFR sector continues to expand its reach in 2022 in the face of a sharp downturn in the homebuying market triggered by rapidly rising interest rates.
“Mortgage interest rates have been rising since then. [Federal Reserve] Mitch Rosen, Head of Real Estate for Online Platforms, said: yield street, providing retail investors with access to a variety of investment options. “…as homebuying demand hit a 22-year low in June as rising interest rates and fears of a recession deter potential next-buyers, they are now more willing to commit to a mortgage. there are fewer people.
“This, in turn, is all impacting existing home sales patterns. July home sales were down 30% year-over-year, while sales in the more affordable Midwest region were down 14.4%.”
In addition to new SFR inventory being added by housing construction, institutional SFR players continue to purchase existing homes at strong rates to expand their rental inventory. Evidence of that trend can be found in the SFR private label securitization deals tracked by Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA).
Since the beginning of the year through August, KBRA has tracked 12 institutional-backed private-label securitization transactions, including approximately 29,000 single-family rental properties valued at $8.6 billion. These single-family rental (SFR) securitizations are often referred to as Wall Street deals because they involve large corporations with thousands of rental properties.
KBRA data show that the volume and number of SFR securitization transactions this year are well above last year’s levels. For the full year of 2021, there were a total of nine SFR transactions, including nearly 30,000 income-generating single-family rental properties worth $7.7 billion. However, KBRA data shows that between this year and last August, only five total SFR transactions indirectly secured nearly 18,000 properties worth $4.3 billion.
SFR transactions are securitized slightly differently than the structure used in traditional mortgage-backed securitizations, where the issued securities are directly backed by a pool of mortgage loans. Bonds issued in institutional SFR transactions are typically backed by a single fixed rate loan, which is backed by a large pool of income-generating single-family residential mortgages.
The surge in single-family homes for rent comes at a time of sharp decline in single-family home construction overall. Single-family home starts fell 10.1% in July and fell 2.1% year-to-date, according to NAHB.
Single-family home starts are at their lowest since June 2020, NAHB reports.
“A housing recession is underway, with builder sentiment dropping for the eighth straight month and the pace of single-family home construction slowing in the last five months,” said Robert Dietz, chief economist at NAHB. said.