by David Stunja
A large chunk of the data surrounding rental housing trends is readily available and regularly refreshed. The same can’t be said for pet trends in the industry, as most of the research available took place during or shortly after the pandemic, when things were in a bit of a whirlwind.
Operators now can take a fresh look.
The State of Pets in Rental Housing, a recently released report from PetScreening, offers a snapshot of pet-related trends and challenges in rental housing, along with a gauge of the overall pulse of pet-friendliness in the industry.
The top challenge cited by study respondents, which included 1,715 property managers and leasing professionals within multifamily and single-family rental industries, was unauthorized pets brought into a home. Meanwhile, 60.7% of single-family respondents and 46.5% of multifamily respondents indicated that having a pet-friendly property has increased resident satisfaction.
Read David Stunja’s article in NAA’s Industry Insider.