Multifamily demand is strong in Indianapolis, where favorable employment and demographic trends are putting upward pressure on occupancy and giving property owners leverage to raise rents, Yardi/Matrix reports.
Education and health services led growth in the 12 months ending in September (5,700 jobs), boosted by the region’s health-care building boom, which is also generating construction jobs, Multi-Housing News (MHN) says.
Projects underway include the $389 million Indiana University Health Regional Academic Center, which is set to bring a new hospital to Bloomington, along with academic and research facilities, MHN reports.
In November, Central Indiana Orthopedics, in partnership with the city of Fishers, broke ground on the first medical office building within the 37-acre MedTech Park campus, while IU Health is planning a $1 billion consolidated campus downtown. The tech sector is also growing, with Salesforce, Infosys and Appirio attracting talent: Between 2014 and 2017, Indianapolis added 10,000 tech jobs, bringing the total to more than 31,100.
Multifamily investors mainly targeted value-add assets, with acquisition yields going as high as 10.0 percent for these properties. Meanwhile, developers focused on both downtown and rapidly growing suburbs of Hamilton County including Carmel, Fishers and Westfield–Noblesville, which have seen the greatest population hikes in Indiana between 2010 and 2017.
