11.   Anticipating a rent increase, Hakim said he told Fiorentino his rent would also go up.

12.   As a result, landlords are enjoying hefty rent increases.

13.   As a result, they will have to rely more on rent increases for earnings growth, analysts said.

14.   As a result, landlords are able to impose hefty rent increases.

15.   A recent residential rent increase, sanctioned by the federal agency that controls the property, paid for much-needed roof and sidewalk replacement.

16.   After that, a tenant gains the legal rights guaranteed to apartment dwellers, including limits on annual rent increases.

17.   All property types covered by the survey -- apartments, shopping centers, warehouses, downtown offices and suburban offices -- saw prices and rent rates increase.

18.   Both men support a policy known as vacancy decontrol, where restrictions on rent increases are lifted from apartments once they are vacated.

19.   Buildings are filling at a record pace, allowing landlords to push through generous rent increases.

20.   But in less affluent communities of the city, rent increases squeezed against the wall of scarce vacancy.