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Surrounding our coverage of MBA, we chat with Eric Enloe, managing director of JLL's valuation and advisory services, on that very question and why we shouldn't count the suburbs out.

In this <b>EXCLUSIVE</b>, Krebbs says the constraints in new supply coupled with the job growth in the region have led to higher demand for multifamily, higher rent growth and higher returns for investors.

While most lending sources have stayed out of the affordable housing game, the agencies are fulfilling the tremendous demand to fund affordable housing deals.

But investors remain as interested as ever in Chicago-area properties, including ones in the suburbs.

“It's an opportunity for people and neighbors to connect with the buildings through the food they eat.”

As of December 2017, Sacramento's annual rent growth was 6.2%, while the national average was 2.2%, as rents have risen every quarter for the past five-plus years, making it one of the fastest growing US cities.

This year, many multifamily investors are looking farther afield to suburban, secondary and tertiary markets, writes Capital One's Kristen Croxton in this <b>EXCLUSIVE</b> commentary.

From an investment standpoint, “few asset classes offer as compelling a case for near-term optimism as the life sciences industry,” says CBRE's Scott Marshall.