The Star Tribune reports from Minnesota. "Several years into an apartment construction boom, it’s still a landlord’s market across the Twin Cities metro. Rents are on the rise across the region despite the appearance of rental concessions in some parts of the metro that are showing signs of at least temporary saturation. Since 2010 more than 16,000 new units have come to market, and while construction activity this year has slowed, the lull isn’t expected to last — another boomlet is on its way. 'This is a cyclical business and we tend to build until we overbuild, but it’s difficult to know when we’ll hit the end of the cycle,' said Gina Dingman, president of NAI Everest."

"Jennifer Gordon, senior vice president for the Excelsior Group, said that market surveys are showing that an increasing number of properties are offering concessions, but she’s still seeing healthy rent growth over one to two years ago. Dingman said right now some of the most vulnerable areas are parts of Edina, St. Louis Park and Golden Valley where several projects are expected to open at around the same time. The Uptown neighborhood in Minneapolis, which saw 1,200 units come to market in one quarter, has already experienced some weakness."

"Despite those concerns, Dingman said the apartment market in the Twin Cities is considered far more stable than many others, including Denver, where upward of 10,000 units are being built every year. That’s why the Twin Cities continues to be the darling of the investment community. Abe Appert, senior vice president for CBRE, said the region is on track to break another apartment sales record."

The Marin Independent Journal in California. "The red-hot rental market in Marin is cooling, influenced by a slowdown in San Francisco, according to research reports and local observers. 'We are noticing a slowdown in the rental market here in Marin,' said Matt Prandi Borries, vice president of San Rafael-based Prandi Property Management, a 33-year-old property management firm that handles 450 units in Marin. 'We usually are about six months behind (San Francisco’s) trends. My colleagues in San Francisco who work closely in the rental market let me know that they noticed a slowdown in April, which we are now seeing here in Marin. There are certainly still prospective tenants actively looking for housing but the supply is starting to outweigh the demand with a lot of rental inventory still available.'"

The Pacific Business News in Hawaii. "It cost less to rent one- and two-bedroom apartments in Honolulu during August than it did in July, according to the apartment-rental website Zumper. The median rent for a one-bedroom unit during August was $1,760, down 1.7 percent from July and a 5.9 percent drop from August 2015. For a two-bedroom apartment, the median rent was $2,430 in August, down 3.6 percent from July but 1.7 percent more than in August of last year."

The Roanoke Times in Virginia. "A long-time local builder known for student housing plans to bring a mixed apartment and commercial space development to a property near Radford University. Despite the developers’ beliefs that Radford has an untapped rental housing market, their work hasn’t been free of doubters. Before city council gave the final OK on Price Williams’ special use permit, Councilman Keith Marshall raised concerns during a meeting last month about the possibility that developers are overbuilding the student rental housing market."

"'My concern in this particular case are the three to four levels of what seems to be student housing built on top of the one level of business development,' Marshall wrote in an email. 'We are hearing of an overall drop of enrollment at Radford University and increasingly there is a concern that the student housing market has been overbuilt.'"

The Dickenson Press in North Dakota. "A four-story building meant to provide off-campus housing to Dickinson State University students is sitting empty this semester, and neighborhood residents are trying to keep it that way. Blue Hawk Square, located two blocks south of the university on West Villard Street, became another casualty of the DSU Foundation's dissolution in June when Dacotah Bank acquired the property from a deed in lieu of foreclosure."

"Now, the bank is working with DSU and the city to get students back in the 44-unit apartment building as early as the spring semester. However, residents of the neighborhood around Blue Hawk Square are urging city officials to deny the bank a variance that would allow students to live in the building and park on campus, thereby keeping it from obtaining a certificate of occupancy. 'That building ruined this neighborhood,' said Lloyd Lindbo, who lives across the street from the building."

Houston Public Media in Texas. "A report by Dodge Data and Analytics finds construction of new homes – both apartments and single-family homes – is down by 16 percent in the first seven months of 2016 compared to last year. Nonresidential construction is also down, by 23 percent. Bill Gilmer, who directs the Institute for Regional Forecasting at the University of Houston, is not the least surprised."

"'It recognizes that the apartment market is seriously overbuilt,' he said. 'And that we really don’t need to be building any more apartments here in Houston right now.'"

"A recent report by RentCafe found Greater Houston is on track to open 26,000 new apartments this year, more than in any other region."