Property management desk · September 1, 2026
September turnover starts on the rent roll
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September is when many residential leases turn and when commercial tenants revisit occupancy plans after summer. The only occupancy number you can defend on Tuesday morning is the one on your rent roll. Census Housing Vacancies and Homeownership is quarterly. It did not update because the month changed. BLS CPI rent of primary residence prints on the CPI calendar, not on a manager’s renewal spreadsheet.
What belongs in a September owner packet?
List notices to vacate, notices to renew, and vacant days already on the books. Separate them from asking-rent changes you have not collected. An asking-rent increase that never hits cash is not same-store growth. Do not invent a city rent index to decorate the packet.
Purchase-rate context can explain why some households stay. The last cited national 30-year daily index is 6.81% as of August 28. That is tenure color. It is not a resident’s new mortgage and not a vacancy rate.
When do official rent and vacancy series show up?
HVS arrives on the Census quarterly calendar. CPI rent of primary residence and owners’ equivalent rent arrive with CPI. Quote those prints when they publish. Until then, the asset tape is collected rent, concessions granted, and units down.
This desk does not manage property and does not write leases. It will not publish a made-up same-store number for a city it did not survey.
FAQ
What occupancy figure should I send an owner on September 1?
The rent roll: occupied units, notices, and vacant days. National HVS is last quarter until Census prints again.
Can I use 6.81% as this month’s rent-growth budget?
No. 6.81% is a national purchase-mortgage daily index as of August 28, 2026. Budget rent from collected leases, then check BLS CPI rent when it prints.
Sources: Census HVS (quarterly vacancy; no invented September print); BLS CPI rent series (rent of primary residence calendar); Mortgage News Daily daily rate index (30-year 6.81% as of August 28, 2026, tenure context only).