Six U-Haul companies on the northern Gulf Coast are offering 30 days of self-storage and U-Box container use at no cost to people in the path of Hurricane Isaias. The offer covers 93 stores in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi, according to U-Haul’s Oct. 7 announcement. It applies only to new rentals, and it depends…

Pennsylvania’s Property Tax/Rent Rebate gives older, widowed and disabled residents back part of what they paid in property taxes or rent, and homeowners at the lowest income level can receive up to $1,500 once an automatic supplement is added. The state Department of Revenue says applications for 2025 rebates must be postmarked by Dec. 31,…

RealPage and three of the country’s large landlords will have to answer the government’s rent-pricing lawsuit. A federal court in the Middle District of North Carolina refused to dismiss the case, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Oct. 2, and ordered RealPage and its landlord co-defendants to respond to the complaint. The three landlords still…

HUD’s Fair Market Rents for fiscal year 2027 took effect Oct. 1. The figures set the starting point for how much rent a Housing Choice Voucher can help cover in every metro area and rural county, according to the Federal Register notice HUD published Sept. 1. The notice gives Oct. 1, 2026, as the effective…

A judge in Nashville will hear the case for final approval of the RealPage rent settlements on October 15, 2026, and the window for renters to opt out or object has already shut. It closed on September 22. What remains open is the claim form, which the administrator says is due by January 29, 2027.…

The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s FY 2027 Fair Market Rents took effect October 1, 2026, replacing the schedule that local housing agencies had been using to set voucher rent limits. The new figures rest on Census Bureau rent data collected between 2020 and 2024, which HUD then moved forward to account for the…

Apartments that the law treats as rent stabilized, but that landlords have been renting at market prices, are being pulled back under the rules by the New York Attorney General’s office. Its running tally since May 2025 stands at 131 units returned to rent stabilization, 27 evictions prevented and 30 landlords who certified compliance. The…

Apartment List’s September 2026 national rent report holds a count that cuts against the usual rent story: of the 100 largest U.S. cities, 46 show lower rents than a year earlier. The company published the report on September 29, 2026, and it covers September data. The 46 is Apartment List’s own tally from its own…

A modelled comparison from Zillow, published September 16, 2026, puts a dollar figure on the gap between renting and buying: $12,792 a year in favor of the renter, measured on a national basis. The same analysis finds that in each of the 50 largest U.S. metros the typical rent is lower than the typical monthly…

Bids for roughly 4,200 reverse mortgage loans that HUD holds on vacant homes are due before 1:00 p.m. Eastern on October 27, 2026. The sale, called HVLS 2027-1, covers loans with a combined balance of about $1.3 billion, and the Federal Register notice that announced it states one term that sets it apart from ordinary…