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Updated almost 8 years ago on . Most recent reply

Rent Trends in Hobbs, New Mexico 2016
Does anyone have insight to the rental trends in Hobbs, New Mexico? Or possibly Carlsbad, New Mexico / Midland, Texas / Odessa, Texas?
Given the weakness of the Permian, I would expect to see rents decreasing and vacancies climbing, but would like to get input from folks on the ground in those markets.
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You might try to compare HUD Fair Market Rents for those counties in SE NM for 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 and see if they dropped.
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html
If they are truly "fair market", they should have fallen in 2015 from 2014, and again in 2016 from 2015. The 2017 FMR's were recently posted.