Game changer
With Greystar Real Estate Partners' acquisition of Riverstone Residential in June, the nation's two largest privately owned apartment management companies are now one mega-firm with almost double the number of managed units than that...
The bottom line on revenue management
Two automated price optimization systems -- Revolution LRO and M/PF YieldStar -- lead the pack. Other such systems are being used exclusively or are under development. All were created through cooperation between large apartment...
Cool new lockers hit the market
Refrigerated package lockers have recently been introduced to the market, spurred by the increase in deliveries of meals from companies like Blue Apron and Hello Fresh, and produce and refrigerated items ordered through Amazon’s...
The 9 Types of Collaborators
The Expert
The Expert is the go-to person for questions about collaboration technology and best practices in your organization. The Expert looks beyond the normal file-sharing and project management capabilities of a collaboration solution and...
Orange County gets big, new addition
In November 2018, the Samueli Family, owners of the Anaheim Ducks purchased 10 acres of city-owned parking lots adjacent to Honda Center and finalized an agreement with the City of Anaheim, committing the Ducks...
Rebuilding the labor force for multifamily
Several days earlier, the writer, narrator, producer, actor and former host of the popular television show Dirty Jobs delivered the same message to a House Committee on Education and the Workforce subcommittee on Capital...
A small landlord’s cry: Why is the government violating my property rights?
I am a small landlord, and the government has put me and millions of other small landlords through hell for the past 18 months. Politicians always say they support small business, but they rarely...
Destined for disruption
On April 8, 74 working days into construction, President, Katerra Materials Trevor Schick confirmed that the project was on schedule for completion by April 24 or sooner.
K90, located just outside Las Vegas, is showcasing...
Best cities for multifamily, 2022
National multifamily occupancy rates are at record levels, with markets across the country seeing a strong increase in rents. According to RealPage, nationwide effective rents have increased 8.3 percent, the greatest gain since 2010....
Latest failed test of rent control: Berlin
Rent control may be making a comeback in the U.S., but the controversial policy had an unceremonious ending in Berlin barely a year after going into effect.
“A controversial rent cap to control soaring rents...
A history of Faith
He decided to continue his education, since jobs were scarce, looking at either business school or law school, and ended up going to Harvard Business School to pursue his MBA.
After graduating in 1986, Faith...
The kind of guys you’d want to work for. Says you.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said that “a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” That is certainly the case of the 100 leaders of large companies around...
U.S. Supreme Court decides in favor of property owners
Property owners won a significant victory in the recent case of Pakdel v. San Francisco, in which the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a restrictive view of the “finality requirement,” which generally requires a government...
Paradigm shift
The partners, who come from family-owned multifamily businesses with a combined 150 years of experience, plan to redefine the future of urban rental living by developing and managing apartment communities based on five principles:...
RealPage breaks silence in response to allegations of price fixing
RealPage breaks silence in response to allegations of price fixing levied by renters' groups and the U.S. Department of Justice, releasing a statement that tells "the real story."
The statement is a response...
