Blended rate growth was 3%, driven by a 5.2% renewal rate with 60% of residents renewing in the quarter.
Equity Residential's second quarter 2025 results exceeded expectations with strong resident retention and sustained demand across markets.
Expansion markets such as Atlanta and Dallas performed in line with expectations, with suburban acquisitions outperforming urban submarkets facing supply pressure.
Markets like Los Angeles and Denver faced challenges from weak job growth, quality of life issues, and heavy concession use.
Other strong markets included New York City with the highest occupancy and strong blended rate growth, and Washington, D.C. with high occupancy and rent growth despite recent softening.
Physical occupancy was high at 96.6%, with new lease rates slightly negative due to price sensitivity and concession use in supply-heavy markets.
San Francisco led the portfolio with 5.8% blended rate growth, driven by strong new lease and renewal increases and favorable migration patterns.
Accretive capital allocation included deploying more than $600 million year-to-date, including a $357 million acquisition of five shopping centers in South Orange County, California.
Expense recovery rates improved meaningfully, contributing to NOI growth, supported by higher average commenced occupancy.
Leased and commenced occupancy spread was 260 basis points, with an SNO pipeline of $38 million incremental base rent.
Leverage remains comfortably within target range of 5 to 5.5x, with a strong balance sheet and access to low-cost capital.
Regency Centers delivered another quarter of excellent results with strong same property NOI growth exceeding 7%, driven primarily by base rent growth of 4.5%.
The company achieved record low shop move-outs and sustained robust leasing activity with strong rent growth, including cash rent spreads of 10% and GAAP rent spreads of nearly 20%.
Total NOI growth and core operating earnings per share growth were robust, surpassing expectations.
Europe accounted for $889 million or 76% of investment volume at a 7.3% weighted average initial cash yield, while U.S. investments totaled $282 million at a 7% yield.
Net debt to annualized pro forma adjusted EBITDA was 5.5x, in line with the company’s leverage target.
Portfolio occupancy ended at 98.6%, 10 basis points higher than the prior quarter and above the historical median of 98.2%.
Realty Income invested $1.2 billion in Q2 2025 at a 7.2% weighted average initial cash yield, with acquisitions having a weighted average lease term of approximately 15.2 years.
Rent recapture rate was 103.4% across 346 leases, generating $97 million of annual cash from prior rents.
The company sold 73 properties for $117 million in net proceeds, with $100 million related to vacant properties.
The company sourced $43 billion in investment opportunities in Q2, matching the total volume sourced in all of 2024 and marking the highest quarterly volume in its history.
Adjusted EBITDA grew 1.8% year-over-year, or approximately 4.5% excluding noncash net straight line, despite FX headwinds.
American Tower reported strong second quarter 2025 results with consolidated property revenue growth of 1.2% year-over-year, or more than 3% excluding noncash straight-line revenue.
Attributable AFFO and AFFO per share declined approximately 6.7% and 6.8%, respectively, primarily due to prior year revenue reserve reversals in India.
Cash adjusted EBITDA margin declined 40 basis points, partially due to higher contribution from U.S. services business.
CoreSite data center business posted over 13% property revenue growth with double-digit revenue growth and gross margin expansion.
On an as-adjusted basis normalizing for India sale, AFFO per share grew approximately 2.4%.
Organic tenant billings growth was 4.7% consolidated, driven by solid demand across global portfolio, with U.S. and Canada at 3.7% and International at 6.5%.
Adjusted EBITDA rose 32.1% to $114 million, with an improved margin of 15%, up 139 basis points.
Adjusted EPS increased by 40.9% to $0.31 from $0.22, demonstrating strong operating leverage.
Capital Markets revenues surged 37.9%, reflecting a 135% increase in total debt volumes compared to 38% industry growth, and investment sales volumes rose 26% versus 11% industry growth.
Cash and cash equivalents ended at $195.8 million with net leverage of 1.4x; cash generated by the business was $133.9 million.
Introduced adjusted free cash flow metric showing $228 million for the 12 months ended June 2025, a 121.4% year-over-year improvement.
Leasing revenues increased 13.8%, led by double-digit growth in retail volumes and improving office activity in key gateway markets.
Management services, servicing and other revenues grew 13.6%, driven by 30% growth in Valuation and Advisory and improvements in servicing and asset management.
Newmark delivered strong revenue growth of 19.9% in Q2 2025, with total revenues reaching $759.1 million compared to $633.4 million a year earlier.
The company repurchased approximately 10.8 million shares for $125.5 million at $11.58 per share, reducing fully diluted weighted average share count by 1.2% to 252.6 million.
Closed $204 million in acquisitions including the Ohio Light industrial portfolio, acquired at a 6.7% initial yield with in-place rents approximately 22% below market.
Occupancy increased sequentially, with an expected year-end same-store occupancy near 96.5%.
Plymouth Industrial REIT reported strong leasing activity with over 1.4 million square feet commenced in Q2 2025, totaling nearly 6 million square feet year-to-date.
Same-store NOI grew 4.1% on a cash basis, supported by strong rent growth and renewal activity.
Share repurchases totaled over 805,000 shares in the quarter plus 225,000 shares post quarter-end.