Vacancy Rates
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Apartment construction slows after years of frenzied building in Colorado Springs
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The red-hot pace of Colorado Springs-area apartment construction turned ice cold last year. From 2019 to 2023, multifamily developers pulled permits to build just over 14,000 apartments in the Springs and surrounding El Paso County — one of the hottest stretches of local apartment construction in recent memory that averaged a little more than 2,800…
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Colorado Springs apartment rents slumped again in the first quarter, new report shows
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Colorado Springs apartment rents fell again in the first quarter and the area’s vacancy rate remained high, more signs that the local multifamily market is overbuilt, a new report suggests. And, expect those trends of softer rents and higher vacancies to continue unless the pace of absorption, or apartment occupancy, ramps up significantly, one of…