In Phoenix and other Sunbelt cities, the luxury rental market is cooling and landlords are giving away free rent to fill units.
More than half of Phoenix multifamily properties are offering at least one month of free rent, the highest rate in the country. The cause: a pandemic-era construction boom aimed at remote workers and higher-income transplants that has left the city with more upscale units than qualified renters. Developers in cities...In Phoenix and other Sunbelt cities, the luxury rental market is cooling and landlords are giving away free rent to fill units.
More than half of Phoenix multifamily properties are offering at least one month of free rent, the highest rate in the country. The cause: a pandemic-era construction boom aimed at remote workers and higher-income transplants that has left the city with more upscale units than qualified renters. Developers in cities like Denver, Charlotte, and Austin followed a similar playbook and are now facing the same pressure.
Landlords are leaning on temporary concessions to protect face-value rents, which helps preserve property valuations and lending metrics. But effective rents in Phoenix have already dropped 4% over the past year, with the steepest declines in top-tier assets. Meanwhile, rents in older, more affordable units continue to rise, and some landlords are even raising prices on workforce housing.
The bifurcation is clear: Class A is overbuilt and offering perks, while Class B/C remains tight and expensive. For brokers and lenders, the takeaway is timing, this is a window where tenant incentives are high, valuations may be under pressure, and construction pipelines are slowing. Watch for future rent growth to re-converge as oversupply burns off and capital looks for its next entry point.
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Who else is totally geeked out on what's possible w/ prompting?
Token Management:
If you are doing any kind or form of AI development using Claude, Gemini, GPT Codex, etc., token management needs to be taken into consideration and part of your AI dev strategy.
Experimented w/ a variety of prompting methodologies, best method that I've found for reducing token usage w/ Claude has been a combination of using JSON + Query Language w/ some regex (...Who else is totally geeked out on what's possible w/ prompting?
Token Management:
If you are doing any kind or form of AI development using Claude, Gemini, GPT Codex, etc., token management needs to be taken into consideration and part of your AI dev strategy.
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Using the above method, was able to reduce token usage on a task from 5,834 tokens down to 1,126 tokens where the task ran for 10m 44 sec.
Prompt took about 30 mins to write/structure & was used for building out Rent Roll Analysis dashboard. What I like about using Claude is its computational power/abilities.
How is everyone else dealing with "Token Management" and their LLM and what's your favorite LLM?
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