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Green standard

The Jan. 29 approval by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) of the National Green Building Standard (NGBS), a joint project of the International Code Council (ICC) and the National Association of Home Builders...

Give your technology a KISS

Why not replace it with something dramatically less emotional like "office electronics?" It works at home. We don't think twice about spending countless hours mastering our televisions, Bluerays, DVD/CD players, digital video recorders and...

The art of leasing

"Post is a firm believer that quality design sells and I think a strong piece of artwork out in front of the building will strengthen the iconic nature of the architecture and the site,"...

Web sites earning their keep

There are 220.1 million Internet users in the U.S., second only to China at 253 million, and North American users are growing at the rate of 129 percent since 2000. The multifamily management and development...

Experience matters

And, at AIMCO, the nation's largest owner of apartments for 11 consecutive years, CFO Tom Herzog stepped down in efforts to reduce the REIT's general and administrative overhead. Colonial announced in January that Thomas H....

CallSource teams with Hire Heroes USA

"We must support these young people who have given so much," stated Jerry Feldman, CEO of CallSource. "It's our moral duty. But who better to step into our (multifamily) industry than veterans. There is...

Lent for rent

You just can't open a newspaper or magazine these days without being bombarded with tales of our newfound thriftiness - and related godliness - which, we are told, signals the end of conspicuous consumption...

A rising tide

Booker understands the need for housing affordable to low-income and special-needs residents, and to the workforce caught in the middle -- those who earn too much to qualify for subsidies, but not enough to...

New HUD secretary is a multihousing guy

Since 2004, Commissioner Donovan has headed New York's Department of Housing Preservation and Development. During the Clinton Administration he served as Under Secretary of HUD for Multifamily Housing and also served as the Acting...

Get your Sully on

Some were there to catch a glimpse of the unassuming captain, who so deftly belly-landed a disabled US Airways A320 jetliner in the Hudson River in January. Others were there to offer honor to the...

Where now?

That was the consensus among the global real estate developers, investors, finance specialists and executives who spoke at the recent Emerging Markets Forum at Wharton. With the economy in a tailspin and demand drying...

The axeman cometh

Nobody likes drastic change when it comes to their careers. Americans, on average, spend 70 percent of their waking hours, Monday through Friday, on work-related activities. That being said, to change your job is...

Battening down the NOI hatches

Utility costs can take a big bite out of an apartment owner's bottom line and make up one of a property's largest expenses. In challenging economic times like these, when owners explore every avenue...

For the people

While many people these days, especially those who focus on recent influence-peddling scandals, may think lobbyists spend their days playing golf or drinking or throwing bags of cash at members of Congress, they are...

Land infill

The company's vision for the traditional mixed-use project, where the 112-unit rental component broke ground last fall, is eventually to produce all the energy the residential, office and retail users at Stafford Park need...
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