As anyone familiar with the Boston rental market knows, a Sept. 1 lease usually is secured months in advance, given how the region’s housing cycle revolves around the academic calendar.
But in student heavy neighborhoods, including Allston and Mission Hill, lease signings have been sluggish, data show.
Some Boston realtors who work in neighborhoods near large universities, like Boston University and Northeastern, attribute the slowdown to new student visa processing protocols under the Trump administration, which has imposed additional restrictions on foreign-born students seeking visas to come study in the U.S…