Your Apartment Building Just Became a Bond
By Jack Gilbert   |   October 19, 2026

Santa Barbara’s new rent law caps the coupon on 13,000 apartments at about 2%. What that does to income, value, and exit, why it may not be the last word, and how to keep up. On January 1, roughly 13,000 Santa Barbara apartments start behaving like bonds. The coupon is capped at about 2.1% a […]