A report from the Denver Post in Colorado. "New apartments continue to pour onto the market, pushing down average rents in metro Denver for the second quarter in a row and boosting the vacancy rate a tad, according to the latest Denver Metro Area Apartment Vacancy and Rent survey."

"Adjust for inflation, and apartment rents are actually down 2.6 percent, said Teo Nicolais, an instructor specializing in real estate at the Harvard Extension School in Denver. 'We are seeing a ton of new supply and seeing rents go down. It is all about supply. That supply is what makes housing more affordable,' he said."

"The vacancy rate rose from 5.5 percent in the third quarter to 5.8 percent in the fourth, which represents 20,237 empty units. By comparison, there were only 5,577 homes and condos for sale in metro Denver at the end of December, according to the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. Developers added 12,324 new apartments to the market last year, an annual volume that is three times greater than the historical average. Of those, 3,876 came just in the fourth quarter."

The Boulder Daily Camera in Colorado. "Availability of new apartment units in Boulder and Broomfield counties brought down average rents in the area in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to the Apartment Association of Metro Denver."

"Additional supplies tend to push rents downward, said Teo Nicolais, an instructor specializing in real estate at Harvard Extension School. In 2017, only 622 new apartments became available in the two-county area. Boulder and Broomfield counties built more apartments in 2018 than the previous three years combined, he said."

"The two-county vacancy rate in fourth quarter 2018 was 5.4 percent, up from 4 percent in the third quarter. It's the highest in the last eight years, and that's good news for renters, Nicolais said. 'No one knows what's going to happen next,' Nicolais said."

"There are about 1,000 apartment units under construction in Boulder and another 661 planned, according to Apartment Insights New Construction Report."

The Bowling Green Daily News in Kentucky. "Warren County’s apartment building boom, trending skyward for the past couple years, may be coming back down to earth. Statistics provided by the City-County Planning Commission of Warren County show that the growth curve for multifamily housing, once seemingly headed for the exosphere, may at least be settling back to the stratosphere."

"Aiming to meet the needs of younger residents and newcomers not ready to buy a home, developers have put up a slew of apartments. The approval activity of the two record-setting years showed up in 2018’s figures on building permit reviews. That number went from 2,037 in 2017 to a record 2,121 last year."

"'We had a huge June for multifamily housing, said Brent Childers, director of neighborhood and community services for the city of Bowling Green. 'But since then we have seen a decline. We’re definitely seeing a slowdown, but we couldn’t keep up the rate of growth we had been seeing.'"

"With apartments still coming online, Cassi Nushart, director of operations for SKY, does worry about reaching a saturation point. 'We haven’t felt that dip in terms of the market being saturated, but I know that’s a concern,' she said. 'Do we anticipate a dip? Probably so.'"

From Curbed New York. "NYC is in the midst of a building boom, and with more supply than demand, buyers often have the upper hand in getting the best deals. Furthermore, the real estate market has been experiencing a downturn of late (particularly in Manhattan), and prices are expected to go down further, according to Stephen Geller, a broker at Corcoran. The city is being flooded with a record number of homes, and experts contend that this will prompt prices to drop, particularly in Manhattan and Brooklyn."

"'We are definitely in a buyer’s market right now,' says Carol Staab, a real estate broker at Douglas Elliman."