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Both sides now

For the past few years, the focus of the multifamily industry has been riveted upon "high-barrier-to-entry" markets, primarily metro markets in sunshine states such as California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona or cities along the...

Home court advantage

Whether in the planning stages or built over the past few decades, sports stadiums are expected to generate vibrant mixed-use districts that include offices, retail, eateries and entertainment, and lots of multifamily housing going...

Capital markets

The ugly had its way with the sub-prime mortgage market early this year, when many of that sector's loans began to go sour. The real estate industry started to feel the full-squeeze effects of...

Village Greener

"You're already home," is the message Village Green Cos. hopes to convey as soon as prospective residents enter one of the company's rental communities, and the landscape that greets the potential renters is key...

Apartment leasing to go

The recent release of the iPhone along with the increased availability of WiFi is beginning to press the acceptance of mobile marketing campaigns. The latest to enter the mobile arena is the new iPod....

The wow factor

Welcome the next generation of apartment marketing and leasing where integrated, smart systems merge Internet technologies with telecommunications. Get ready, because our professions will never be the same and its happening right now. Communities are...

Better to be lucky than good

The fund closed in February 2006 with $455 million of equity and an investment capacity of $1.3 billion on a leveraged basis and has around $45 million of equity remaining that Waterton expects to...

Windows of opportunity

Windows, along with doors and skylights, are almost always the weak link in a building's envelope. They can account for 35 to 40 percent of a unit's heat loss and an even higher percentage...

Whoops

See Multihousing Professional's July 2006 cover story, "Vision meets reality." A year later eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion. At the time, Skype had over 100 million online users and quite an unsavory history...

And the beat goes on

Brad Pitt toured the construction site of a house in New Orleans that is based on the winning design in a competition he launched to help the area recover from Hurricane Katrina. Wearing khaki...

Playing favorites

The fact that favoritism in the workplace exists is not news, but in high-profile cases, it often makes the news. Two years ago, for example, Harry C. Stonecipher was forced to resign the presidency...

The changing office

Management consultant and professor Peter Drucker once asked, "Why would any company pay (in salary and time) to transport a 190-pound body when all it needed was the body's three-pound brain?" Was he just ahead...

Agency borrowing: Why the multifamily industry relies on GSEs

First, there are the portfolio lenders including banks and insurance companies. These lenders retain loans "in their portfolio" by making loans using funds from deposits or insurance premiums and then keeping those loans on...

Hold Everything

The keenly watched deal is the second largest real estate buyout in history, eclipsed only by the $39 billion acquisition of EOP by The Blackstone Group. The deal was struck in late May, before...

Be Inspired

I know that our cover story, Newark Mayor Cory Booker was never a Girl Scout... but then again, what do I know? At Oxford, after wandering into a meeting of LaChaim, a Jewish student...
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