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Apartment communities with fitness centers hit all-time high during the past decade
Research - FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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Apartment communities with fitness centers hit all-time high during the past decade

by Mike Consol

Gyms and other fitness amenities are in demand from tenants, and real estate developers are offering a muscular response to that mandate. RENTCafe, a division of Yardi Matrix, has issued a report that found in 2019 some 92 percent of new rental buildings came with some type of gym or fitness amenity — and during the past decade gyms have been a regular fixture in around 90 percent of new apartment buildings.

That compares favorably to the 1970s, when only about 30 percent of new buildings had a fitness facility.

“The importance of such an amenity within residential buildings these days is unquestionable,” the report says.

In response to the trend toward working out, two-thirds of large U.S. apartment buildings now have a fitness center on the premises.

A recent RENTCafe survey of more than 3,000 renters searching for apartments found that 47 percent said they were interested in renting in an apartment community with a gym or fitness center. What’s

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