{"id":6761,"date":"2026-01-21T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:19:35","slug":"atlanta-multifamily-market-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Multifamily Market Report \u2013 January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rents Soften, Occupancy Sets Record<\/h2>\n<p>Atlanta\u2019s multifamily fundamentals softened but showed signs of stabilization going into the final innings of 2025, according to the latest Atlanta multifamily market report. Advertised asking rents declined 0.5% year-over-year, to $1,638 through November, compared to a 0.2% U.S. increase, to $1,740, as\u00a0reported in the <a href=\"\/blog\/national-multifamily-market-report\/\" rel=\"\"><strong>national multifamily outlook<\/strong><\/a>. Occupancy in stabilized assets, meanwhile, posted the strongest gain among the top 30 U.S. markets, up 100 basis points year-over-year, to 93.7% in October.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-jGay7\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"Atlanta vs. National Rent Growth\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/jGay7\/1\/\" height=\"334\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Line chart\" data-external=\"1\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">window.addEventListener(\"message\",function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";r.style.height=d}}});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Atlanta\u2019s labor market is cooling, with employment up 0.4% through August, compared to 0.8% nationally. The metro added 7,300 net jobs over the 12 months ending in August. Unemployment held at 3.5% as of August, trailing Georgia\u2019s 3.4% and outperforming the 4.3% U.S. rate. Job growth was led by education and health services and leisure and hospitality, while trade, transportation and utilities and construction contracted. Still, major programs including the $11.6 billion ATLNext upgrade at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, SR 400 express lanes and Microsoft\u2019s $1.8 billion Union City AI data center campus underpin longer-term economic growth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-GLWjP\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"Atlanta Employment Share by Sector\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/GLWjP\/1\/\" height=\"417\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">window.addEventListener(\"message\",function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";r.style.height=d}}});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>New supply remained elevated, as developers delivered 16,086 units in 2025 through November. The pipeline was sizable, with 24,071 units underway, nearly half of which started construction in 2025. Investment activity was subdued, with $3 billion in multifamily assets trading through November. The average price per unit slid 8.6% year-over-year, to $169,244, significantly below the $206,794 U.S. figure.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full Yardi Matrix Atlanta Multifamily Market Report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/publications\/download\/file\/8239-MatrixMultifamilyAtlantaReport-January2026\"><strong>January 2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rents Soften, Occupancy Sets Record Atlanta\u2019s multifamily fundamentals softened but showed signs of stabilization going into the final innings of 2025, according to the latest Atlanta multifamily market report. Advertised asking rents declined 0.5% year-over-year, to $1,638 through November, compared to a 0.2% U.S. increase, to $1,740, as\u00a0reported in the national multifamily outlook. Occupancy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":9934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,4],"tags":[446,519],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-reports","category-multifamily-market","category-real-estate-trends","tag-atlanta","tag-multifamily-outlook-2026"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Atlanta Multifamily Market Report | Yardi Matrix Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Access the up-to-date Atlanta multifamily market report by Yardi Matrix to understand market fundamentals and explore further details.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atlanta Multifamily Market Report \u2013 January 2026\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Access the up-to-date Atlanta multifamily market report by Yardi Matrix to understand market fundamentals and explore further details.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Yardi Matrix Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-21T09:04:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-11T07:19:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2025\/09\/Atlanta-iStock-2248410797-MHN.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Razvan Cimpean\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Anca Gagiuc\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Atlanta Multifamily Market Report | Yardi Matrix Blog","description":"Access the up-to-date Atlanta multifamily market report by Yardi Matrix to understand market fundamentals and explore further details.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Atlanta Multifamily Market Report \u2013 January 2026","og_description":"Access the up-to-date Atlanta multifamily market report by Yardi Matrix to understand market fundamentals and explore further details.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/","og_site_name":"Yardi Matrix Blog","article_published_time":"2026-01-21T09:04:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-02-11T07:19:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":900,"url":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2025\/09\/Atlanta-iStock-2248410797-MHN.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Razvan Cimpean","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Anca Gagiuc","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/"},"author":{"name":"Razvan Cimpean","@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/694c0c0a53e89aa8de1e53ff8201b3b6"},"headline":"Atlanta Multifamily Market Report \u2013 January 2026","datePublished":"2026-01-21T09:04:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-11T07:19:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/"},"wordCount":229,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2025\/09\/Atlanta-iStock-2248410797-MHN.jpg","keywords":["Atlanta","Multifamily Outlook 2026"],"articleSection":["Metro Reports","Multifamily Market","Real Estate Trends"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/","url":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/","name":"Atlanta Multifamily Market Report | Yardi Matrix Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2025\/09\/Atlanta-iStock-2248410797-MHN.jpg","datePublished":"2026-01-21T09:04:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-11T07:19:35+00:00","description":"Access the up-to-date Atlanta multifamily market report by Yardi Matrix to understand market fundamentals and explore further details.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2025\/09\/Atlanta-iStock-2248410797-MHN.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2025\/09\/Atlanta-iStock-2248410797-MHN.jpg","width":1200,"height":900,"caption":"Photo by Faina Gurevich\/iStockphoto.com"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/atlanta-multifamily-market-report\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Atlanta Multifamily Market Report \u2013 January 2026"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/","name":"Yardi Matrix Blog","description":"Stay current with the latest commercial real estate market trends and forecasts","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Yardi Matrix","url":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/Inline_Matrix_Color_es-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/Inline_Matrix_Color_es-1.jpg","width":200,"height":39,"caption":"Yardi Matrix"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/yardi-matrix\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCRHgAZL4YoyeNEdiRN5uj0g"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/694c0c0a53e89aa8de1e53ff8201b3b6","name":"Razvan Cimpean","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a2a826ff843b4f800ff5528644dc28dc336a20ec16082b6108ff5a5def333e6d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a2a826ff843b4f800ff5528644dc28dc336a20ec16082b6108ff5a5def333e6d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Razvan Cimpean"},"url":""}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2025\/09\/Atlanta-iStock-2248410797-MHN.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9940,"href":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions\/9940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}