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The Urban Land Institute recently asked 700 real estate professionals to name the best (and worst) places to invest in commercial real estate in the coming year. Those surveyed included private developers, Realtors and...

So you might think we were there to lament the softening local business environment and its associated housing market. Yet, the executives in attendance continue to hold cautious optimism by way of educated managerial...

The good news for investors in public apartment firms is that valuations for most multifamily REITs haven't fallen as drastically as those in other segments -- say, retail developer and owner General Growth Properties,...

The merchant builder of market-rate apartments and student housing was created out of the economic downturn in late 1989 with an investment from Texas oilman Ray Hunt. The company also struggled through the market...

Better train business teams and individuals to compete. Maximize return on investments. Invest in the country's future Acknowledge that our future lies within our people. It is critical that we grasp the slipping reins of our incoming workforce...

Today, 80 percent of the United States population lives in metropolitan areas. Now, thanks to innovative landscape architects like Encino, Calif.-based TGP, Inc, trading hours on crowded freeways for the convenience and excitement of living...

The downward spiral of the economy and near shutdown of the capital markets may have put the brakes on new bricks-and-mortar development for the near term, but in cyberspace, where real estate is practically...

The public/private landscaped garden and courtyard occupies a strip of land separating the South Group's 13-story, 176-unit Elleven and the newly completed 23-story, 311-unit Evo, the third and final component in the developer's South...

But one amenity everyone covets is technology, according to the Apartment Renter Technology Survey conducted early last year by the National Multi Housing Council (NMHC). Survey results indicate that service penetration rates and rankings...

Streets were lit only by starlight, and that was in short supply through threatening cloud cover. I could not get to the front door of my home without crawling over giant, ice-encrusted sycamore limbs. Scenes...

But these are tough times. The unemployment rate, now 6.5 percent, will likely rise further as plunging retail sales lead to cutbacks in production and more layoffs. The economy is contracting now and is...

Multihousing brokers are certainly feeling the pinch. During a panel discussion at the Apartments 2008 conference in Los Angeles, hosted by Real Estate Southern California and GlobeSt.com on October 2, brokers from CB Richard...

I can, in no way, trivialize what's happening in the financial markets or certain segments of our economy, but it is all relative. And while "It's all relative" does not make as good a...

Every year multifamily operators spend thousands of dollars hiring and training new staff. According to the 2007 National Apartment Survey of Compensation and Benefits Practices conducted by the National Multi- Housing Council, the typical...

The one-stop waste management and sustainability company that now takes out the trash at more than 200,000 units across the country, was founded in 1995 by CEO Mike Ferris, VP of Sales Dave Magrisso...