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This tutorial explains how subscribers to the Apartment Vacancy Report can to create their own customized online reports showing current and historical rent and vacancy trends for any market area, property age range, and property size range the user selects.
You select the market area and the survey date to report rents and vacancies by unit type (studio, one-bedrooms, and so on) and by the standard age groups we use in the printed report.
This report contains the same information found in the printed version of The Apartment Vacancy Report, except it does not include a five-year history table.
This report lets you do two things you can’t do with the printed report.
First, you can select any survey date, from September 1997 to the most recent report. That makes it easy to look at rent and vacancy trends over time.
Second, you can easily copy the report table into a Word or Excel document, saving you the effort of typing in the data. We will explain how to do this later in this tutorial.
On your My account page, scroll down to the section, Subscriber resources available to (your name). In that section you will see a number of links under the heading for The Apartment Vacancy Report. Click on the link Rent and vacancy report and you will see this query page.
Select the market area and survey date you want to use in your final report, and then click Create My Detailed Report.
If you are not sure which area you want to use, click on the link View detailed maps showing map boundaries for each neighborhood
The online report you generate includes a narrative summary of rental market trends for the market area and survey period you selected. The summary is followed by a table showing rents and vacancies for each unit type (studios, one-bedrooms, and so on) and age group.
The report also includes graphs showing the results for each unit type for the survey period you selected, for rent, rent per net rentable square foot, and the vacancy rate.
You select the market area and time period to report the following rental market trends: overall market vacancy rate, overall average rent, percent of properties offering rent incentives, and the average rent increase planned by managers.
You can select a time period of 5, 10, 15, 20, or 25 years.
The final report shows rental market trends, beginning with the most recent survey and going back as far as you specified. This report shows the same information found in the five-year history table at the bottom of each market area page in the printed version of The Apartment Vacancy Report.
However, the online report lets you look at longer-term trends.
Click on the link Rental market trends report and you will see this query page.
Select the market area and time period you want to use in your final report, and then click Create My Detailed Report.
The online report you generate includes graphs of all of the trends and a table showing overall rental market trends for the market area and time period you selected. The overall rental market trends reported for each survey period:
Note: only two of the six graphs show in the sample page printed here. The remaining four graphs appear after the table.
You select market area, the unit type (studio, one-bedroom, and so on), the year built range of properties you want to analyze (example: 2000-2006), the size range of properties you want to analyze (example: 100-175 units), and the number of stories for properties you want to analyze (example: 5-7 stories, so you focus the results on mid-rise properties).
The final report shows the current rents and vacancies for your selection, as well as the rents and vacancies for each survey since our spring 2000 survey. This is the most customizable online Apartment Vacancy Report. Current rent and vacancy information for a market area is helpful, but the trend over time puts it all in perspective.
Click on the link Rent and vacancy trends report and you will see this query page.
Select the market area and property characteristics you want to use in your final report, then click Create My Detailed Report. If you are not sure which area you want to use, click on the link “View detailed maps showing map boundaries for each neighborhood”
The online report you generate includes a detailed table and graphs of rent and vacancy trends since the spring of 2000 for the market area and property characteristics you selected.
This custom report deserves it's own article. See the link below.
