With foreclosures overhanging the home sales market, weak jobs numbers and looming changes that likely will make getting a mortgage more difficult, many economists and real estate industry leaders are pointing to the rental market as real estate's latest boom market.

“The stage is being set for very strong rent increases,” said Stan Humphries, chief economist of Zillow, who spoke to members of the National Association of Real Estate Editors, which met at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio.

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