Something in the air
"Smells are surer than sounds or sights to make your heartstrings crack," wrote Rudyard Kipling in his 1903 poem "Lichtenberg", capturing in verse what scientists have learned over the past 20 or 30 years...
Tiptoe through the tulips
"There's no finer ambassador of quality than the tulip," Todd Tibbitts, senior VP of property services at Post Properties, said recently, adding that the blossom has long been a symbol of opulence and excellence...
Integration evolution
Apartment owners and managers have retooled their Internet strategies to allow prospective renters to visit apartment communities online, see pricing and availability that changes daily--thanks to integrated revenue management systems--and choose a unit, complete...
Rent by numbers
Yield management tools adopted from successful applications in the hospitality and airline industries are among the latest integrations to capture the minds and bottom lines of apartment companies. These software programs help set rents...
A doctor in the house
Internhousing.com and NurseHousing.com--subsidiaries of Key Housing Connections Inc., a California-based corporate housing provider--are comprehensive online resources that enable clients to arrange short- term housing for cooperative education workers and interns and traveling medical professionals. Both...
Y should you care?
Today, the oldest members of Generation Y are about 27 years old though there has yet to be solid consensus on its start/end dates. The most commonly quoted dates refer to the approximate 70 million...
In the lap of luxury
Apartment owners and managers also have observed that recent trend. Nearly 80 percent of those responding to the National Multi Housing Council's (NMHC) Quarterly Survey of Apartment Conditions conducted in January and February reported seeing...
Sub-prime bail out
Encouraged by the housing bubble, easy credit, along with the expectation that housing prices would continue to appreciate, many subprime borrowers took out mortgages they could not afford in the long run, particularly if...
Multifamily’s TKO
Over the past ten years, the 35-year-old Olympic gold medalist, ten- time world title holder in a record six weight classes and Grammy-nominated recording artist has been assembling a business empire known as Golden...
One punch can change everything
Association, after all, is pivotal to human existence. We touch on the association of smell and its impact on leasing apartments in our story, "Clearing the Air," and promise a deeper dive on the topic...
When family IS business
When your family business involves an extended network of 52 family shareholders, as it does for Bukit Kiara Properties, a real estate development firm, simply pulling everyone together for family dinner can be hard...
Sunny side up
As many real estate markets cool off substantially and others spiral downward in the wake of the mortgage market meltdown in an economy struggling against a full-blown recession, Houston has surged forward with increases...
Clearing the air on the subject of turnovers
Nearly two years ago, Simon Distributing President Pat Simon introduced Paint Scentsations, a simple to use, inexpensive paint additive that not only eradicates odors left behind by previous tenants, but turns the paint into...
A punch list of a different kind
Tierra Del Rey is the initial development for Metro Housing Partners, a privately held company founded last summer by Golden Boy Partners, a partnership of De La Hoya's Golden Boy Enterprises and John Long's...
My kind of town
"We've been growing our concentration in that market through acquisition activity. It's a small market for us and will remain a relatively small component of our overall portfolio, but we have no plans to...
