Tracy Barkalow, a longtime real estate agent and Iowa City landlord, has been a significant figure in Iowa City’s student housing market for more than 20 years.
His stake in Iowa City, however, could be diminishing soon.
His company owns a large swath of residential properties, leading thousands of University of Iowa students to rent from him each year. In the downtown district, Barkalow owns at least seven buildings, totaling 5 percent of a section of downtown analyzed by The Daily Iowan. The City of Iowa City, in comparison, accounted for 6 percent…