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Originally Posted by combusean
Most of the new infill that's coming in has SoCal prices, but without California wages which are *much* higher than Arizona's.
I'm skeptical this will all get built and fill up. Jefferson at Legacy in Scottsdale has a 6 weeks free rent promo and it just recently opened. A complex in demand wouldn't have to do that.
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Yes and no. We sometimes offer free rents over periods of time out of desperation, and sometimes we do it to pad rental rates to increase the CAP for a sale, and sometimes we do it because we are aggressive SOBs who just want a full building at the cost of a little rent that we may or may not need.
As for most of our infill having southern California prices, I have to ask if you've done any price shopping in SD, LA, or the like. Prices in Phoenix, even the high ones, aren't nearly as high as equivalent properties in Southern California cities if we compare like products. Average "all bedroom" rents in the downtown area right now are roughly $1,000 a month, this is a complied average of 1,2, and 3 bedroom units. I am not 100% familiar with the Los Angeles apartment market at this current time and while it's actually cheaper now than the last time I did comparo pricing, it's still quite pricey. I searched apartments under $1,000/mo and everything in an even remotely desirable neighborhood was a studio and in the high $900's. Lots of the inventory I am seeing is centered around MacArthur Park which if you're familiar is not exactly the swankiest part of the city. If you want a 2br you're going to pay $2,500 or so for the same product that costs $1,500 here.
What's going to happen here is in two to three years you'll have a ton of new apartment inventory available. There will be an absolute over-saturation in the market and buildings will have to start competing with each other in ways we have never seen here since the 1970s, you'll see free vacations, free rent, and all sorts of other perks being offered. The density of the central city is about to change dramatically from what we are used to, gone are the days of having a restaurant to yourself and having zero issues finding parking spaces but understand that there's going to be a giant bubble pop in about five years when there simply aren't enough people moving into the city to fill these units at the rate they are expected to pull in.