Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) - Single-Family Rental Housing
Strategic Profile
The company has assembled a high-quality portfolio focused on the Western United States, the Southeast, Texas and Florida, targeting desirable neighborhoods in convenient proximity to major employment centers, good schools, and transportation corridors. Growth initiatives include construction lending, third-party management and the ResiBuilt acquisition, which has built over 4,200 homes since 2018.
Cyborg Score Rationale
Full-year 2025 Core FFO per share rose to $1.91 and AFFO per share to $1.63, with Same Store NOI growth of 2.3%. However, 2026 same-store core revenue growth guidance of 1.3% to 2.5% indicates management is not assuming aggressive rent growth, and the company anticipates higher expense growth in 2026, particularly in property taxes and insurance.
Top Insights
Structural demand from millennials and Gen Z household formation, an affordability gap where owning averages around $1,000 more per month than leasing in its markets, and a U.S. housing shortage of an estimated 2 to 4 million homes support long-term rental demand.
The company closed 2025 with 110,064 homes owned and/or managed, $1,735 million of available liquidity, net debt/TTM adjusted EBITDAre of 5.3x, and no debt maturing before June 2027.
Blended rent growth was 1.8% in Q4 with 4.2% renewal rent growth offset by 4.1% decline in new lease rates.
The company is contending with higher operating expenses, including insurance and property taxes, and regulatory scrutiny of corporate ownership of single family homes and tenant protections continues to build.
Named Competitors
Multifamily Residential — Largest multifamily REIT competitor in residential housing