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Balint: “We project about 4,000 new apartment units to be completed this year in Orange County, but this new supply is still insufficient, representing less than 2% of total stock.”

ORANGE COUNTY, CA—A lot of the focus on redevelopment in the Orange County market has been in the multifamily sector, which has followed a cyclical evolution in the last decade, following macroeconomic changes closely, RENTCafé’s content developer Nadia Balint tells GlobeSt.com. The residential-rental website wanted to see how much recent developments throughout Orange County have changed some streets altogether and how big of a difference there is between the old and new scenery, same location, but years apart. With the help of Google Street View, it pinpointed some of the biggest cityscape changes between 2007 and 2015 and put together 12 interactive split-view visuals.

We spoke exclusively with Balint about what these visuals tell us, how development has changed over the years in Orange County and what future changes we can expect in development in this market.