With national elections around the corner, some of the nation’s largest apartment companies are facing antitrust litigation over usage of a product that has...

Technology is engineered toward empowering individuals, not government. Therein lies the problem. From the Gutenberg press to automobiles to a networked world enabling people to...

spend like there’s no tomorrow Runaway federal debt destabilizes resident incomes, interferes with housing production and depresses apartment rents (PRO IN THE KNOW) $35 trillion debtor Unrepentant,...

Disparate impact of high interest rates has adversely impacted millions of low- and middle-income families—and housing providers. More often high interest rates depress stock...

^58 percent increase in requested quotes to thousands of appliance repair businesses y/y (2022-2023) ^43 percent increase in appliance spend in 2023 compared to 2013—rising...

Rising interest rates, tighter lending and flattening rents in parts of the country have left property companies from California to Florida waiting for financing...

Plaintiffs argue that the Department of Energy has no legal authority to impose its own water use limits on energy-consuming home appliances. The federal regulations...

Restricting the price of housing kills incentives to supply places to live. Rent control is having something of a moment: In Los Angeles, tenants are...

Oliver Emerson Development, a father-son duo, wants to turn the former Rockford Watch Co. factory in Rockford, Illinois, into affordable housing. “To be able to...

Multifamily housing providers are faced with increasing requests from residents with disabilities for emotional support animals (ESA). Requests for ESAs are generating more enforcement...

Rescue capital is available for apartment borrowers that need it, but relatively few owners of over-leveraged apartment properties are willing to pay the price—so...

The $10 billion fund from Starwood Capital Group has been trying to preserve its available cash and credit by limiting investor redemptions. In the...

Over the last decade and a half, it has made much more sense for Bozzuto to build rather than buy apartments. However, as it...

“We all get to vote, but the ability to make legislation is no longer in the hands of the people we elect,” Columbia law...

June 28, 2024 Update: The Supreme Court in an unprecedented victory for multifamily and other businesses, has today reversed its 40-year-old decision in Chevron...

We were once a nation of builders—from the toll roads and canals of the early nineteenth century and the railroads of the second half...

There’s no doubt that we are more distracted than ever in our age of screens. Everything from the latest news on social media to...

The “real world” is calling. But the real world is a real mess. So how do we clean up the mess? That’s a massive...

While asking rents for new leases nationally are running nearly flat over the past 12 months, those figures are heavily influenced by the Sunbelt,...

Tracking rents is important for understanding the dynamics of the housing market. For example, the sharp increase in rents helped me deduce that there...

Where and how we work has changed a lot in the past several years. Collectively, we’ve experienced some of the most significant and far-reaching changes...

Beth Martin may be a designer in Charleston, South Carolina, but, in her head, she is in the south of France, touring a 1700s...

Gym, balconies, restaurant, soundproof music studio, business center, located in downtown Los Angeles, and it’s pet friendly. Sounds like a pretty good hotel, four-stars at...

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download pdf Hybrid work is likely here to stay. This shift isn’t just changing lifestyles—it’s also affecting commercial spaces. Office vacancy rates post-COVID shot up...

Extreme weather alerts in a community communications program is an operational baseline. Extreme weather warnings can help residents understand their risk and protect themselves,...