What's a good yield on cost % for multi development right now?

What's a good yield on cost for multi development right now? Sourcing a couple opportunities that are in the mid 7s. Past couple of years my firm has been doing deals that are in the 9-10% range. Is this standard given the current environment? What have people been seeing?

 

Can't say that I've ever seen a 9-10% yoc on any deal that I've worked on in my career, but we still have several deals that are penciling out to the low 7s. It depends on how you are sourcing your land and what markets you are in, but they are still out there. We have deals outside of secondary markets that are penciling to about 6.75% that we are excited about, and then we have 7.25% yoc deals in tertiary cities that feel a little shaky because of the demand factors aren't as proven in these markets. If you have 400 units in a market like Tampa/Charlotte and getting 7% then you are doing great, but if you're in Wilmington, NC or like a Rochester, NY getting a 7% yoc, then I would be less confident since the demand isn't as proven as the larger cities. Some people are not able to find good land basis and with garden being more expensive than a BFR asset type, and those people are settling for 5.75% spreads so it's all relative. 

 

We look at deals everywhere, including there yes. Some people want to make very speculative investments and that would be a market that hasn't quite proven the demand for large scale investment of multiple thousands of units over the next few years so we are just monitoring that market and seeing where it goes. 

 

I philosophically have a really hard time developing to a ROC that is less than my interest rate. I'm not hearing of many deals in my markets (Midwest) that are much north of a 6% ROC. Interest rates on debt might be above 7% by the end of the year. I think we are kidding ourselves that those will end up being good deals. 

 

So many people have different ways of calculating YOC and I think that's where it gets fuzzy. Most of the 7%+ YOC's that I've seen lately have some pretty significant rent growth assumptions baked in (I am not saying all). I'm a big believer in untrended YOC and I have not seen an untrended YOC in my markets above a 6% in awhile. 

Some markets in the Sunbelt can build surface parked, non-elevatored product and still get Class A rents, so that's probably the only 7%+ that you can actually get done. 

 

Reading some of these untrended cap rates in Canada is insane, even pushing up our assumptions we're struggling to hit 4.75% untrended YoC, 50bps spread against the Cap Rate.

Are people just measuring cost as Hard Costs or everything baked in (Soft, Hard, Lease-up, Marketing, Contingency)?

 

DFW. Urban core we were seeing trades around 4.0-4.25% and are underwriting to a 5.5%+ untrended. Still feels too thin particularly with interest rates all in around a 7% on construction financing. Something has gotta give.

 

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