The End of the Apartment Glut — What’s Driving Rents Higher | How To with Gino Barbaro

Jake and Gino Multifamily Investing Entrepreneurs

Jake & Gino

Buyingapartmentbuildings, Investingsmart, Multifamilyrealestateinvesting, Business, Smartinvesting, Jakeandgino, Apartmentinvesting, Investing, Commercialrealestateinvesting, Makingmoney, Buyingrealestate, Realestateinvestment, Wheelbarrowprofits, Realestateinvesting, Cashflow

5 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode of the Jake and Gino Podcast, Gino Barbaro dives deep into the current multifamily housing landscape and dissects whether the apartment oversupply crisis is reaching its end. Gino walks you through how the market cycle has evolved since the 2008 recession and explains why some cities like Dallas, Austin, and Phoenix are facing increased vacancy and downward rental pressure—while others like New York remain tight.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome. My name is Gino Barbero, one of the co-founders of Jake in Gino.
0:26.2	And in this how-to lesson, we're going to be discussing the end of the apartment glut.
0:31.9	Is it here? Is it not? What's driving rents are Are they going up or are they going down?
0:39.4	It's been very interesting to see apartments being built.
0:44.5	It's something you can just drive through a neighborhood, drive through a city.
0:47.1	You're seeing all these cranes, but you're not understanding that there's a significant
0:51.3	time lag.
0:52.3	Now I want to take you back to the 2008 Great Recession. You may be saying,
0:56.2	why do we need to go back there, Gino? What are we going to find out from back there? Well,
1:00.7	it's called a market cycle. And one interesting thing that happened back in 08, after 08 happened,
1:06.9	building stopped for years. You're talking three or four years of very little building,
1:13.6	but population is still growing. There's still need for housing. It didn't really start kicking
1:18.4	back in until 2013, 2014, where we were in the recovery part of the cycle. And it continued to plow
1:25.5	along. The economy got better. R got better rates dropped builders going back into
1:30.3	the market they start building 2020 hits and bam all of a sudden things slow down for a little bit
1:36.3	supply chain issues problems getting stuff online but the crazy part was money's cheap and we needed housing and builders all flocked into there.
1:48.6	And when the cost of capital is that low and you've had it that low for years, it spurs building.
1:53.7	It spurs people taking risks.
1:56.3	And unfortunately, what COVID did is at lengthen the market cycle.
2:01.1	We'd be through all the nonsense. We'd be the market cycle. We'd be through all the nonsense.
2:03.0	We'd be through this recession.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jake & Gino, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jake & Gino and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.