Build-to-Rent Homes Looking to Capture Sizable Chunk of Housing Market in Arizona

Build-to-Rent Homes Looking to Capture Sizable Chunk of Housing Market in Arizona
A tiny home in a wealthy Boston suburb stands next to trees and shrubs, in Newton, Mass, on Sept. 30, 2021. Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via AP
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Coupled with low supply inventory, rising home prices and more people moving into the valley, there’s a new trend taking shape in Arizona, where residential properties are being built to rent out rather than sell.

“It’s actually a fairly new form of residential real estate that really didn’t exist five or six years ago,” Randy Grudzinski with Empire Development Group told ABC15. The build-to-rent trend is mainly driven by demand, which, according to the Arizona Department of Housing estimates, comes to around 250,000 more homes and apartments needed right now in the state.