Job growth, which has been seen as a primary driver of apartment fundamentals, is no longer the gold standard for predicting apartment rent growth, according to a RealPage analysis. Cumulative job growth typically has positively correlated with cumulative rent growth, meaning the more jobs a market added, the more apartment rents grew in that market, the analysis said. However, during the past five years, that correlation has weakened. 

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