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Job losses outweighed the increase in demand for apartments from former or would-be home owners, said Sam Chandan, chief economist of real estate research firm Reis. According to Reis' results for July-September, the U.S. apartment...

Companies might be better off investing in training fresh recruits with little experience in an industry so the companies can have more control over how the new workers adapt to their new employer's corporate...

Transaction velocity has maintained a steady pace during the last year, fueled by Denver's healthy long-term prospects," Adam Christofferson, Marcus & Millichap's regional manager for Denver, said. High foreclosures of for-sale housing also have helped...

Out of the apartment-construction business for about five years, Don Kenney has formed a company called Metro Development that will build several apartment complexes around central Ohio. Kenney's Village Communities condominium-development company, meanwhile, is...

The study, which polled thousands of workers worldwide, reveals a substantial cost of workplace conflict. It found that workplace conflict is nearly universal, with 85 percent of all workers having dealt with it. Employees...

To be sure, the most visible red vs. blue differences in party support and voter turnout can largely be explained by variations in the composition of local populations. Income, race and ethnicity, education, generation...

During the 2001 recession, just over half the 400 companies studied improved their gross profit margins during the year, according to Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, of Chicago. The winners' secret: Targeted rather than...

Conventional wisdom says "clothes make the man or woman." But a published study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University suggests it's more about how today's competitive-minded companies use colors and...

Look at AIG. In a wave of corporate head-hunting under Eliott Spitzer, AIG was dragged through a public flogging, its illustrious CEO, Hank Greenberg, driven from office. The old AIG-style of board governance was...

The lock-and-key systems most commonly used by apartment communities today are master-key systems, and inherent in those systems is the potential threat posed by the ability of a master-key holder to gain access to...

"The Congress really took a hard look at our industry's lobbying efforts to create a more balanced housing policy," Camden Property Trust CEO Ric Campo told analysts during the apartment REIT's Q2 earnings call,...

"America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who -- with their hands, their intelligence and their heart -- built the greatest nation...

This could be good news for apartment owners and operators, but many of these renters come with fiscal risk, or do they? The latest numbers suggest that high-barrier markets will continue to be fertile...

Representing a historic milestone for the multifamily industry, this ever-expanding volume suggests that providing online availability has become a significant component of rental operation. The VaultWare engine, a product of Realty DataTrust, is the apartment...

The presenter introduces this new concept, while providing ways for marketing attendees to create a social network at their communities. Leasing Agent Suzie goes home and signs up for the free program, believing she...