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Every organization is vulnerable to crises. The days of playing ostrich are gone. You can play, but your stakeholders will not be understanding or forgiving because they have watched what happened with Bridgestone-Firestone, Bill...

NMHC and the National Apartment Association (NAA) have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), asking a federal judge to strike down HUD's recently issued Limited English Proficiency...

Even in the boom of 2005, premier wet slips bucked appreciation trends of traditional single family homes. As the growing demand for boat slips fuels marina sales, investors and boaters are hopping on board for...

He already had a taste for development, acquired during his first job after graduating from college in the early 1990s, when he worked with an environmentally conscious, single-family home developer involved with non-profits. Ansin grew...

But, while Pollack Partners has been charging full-steam ahead with projects since the company was formed last summer, Chair-man and CEO Marc Pollack didn't jump into his own multifamily development, acquisition and investment business...

Today, they are paying attention to the shadow supply of for-sale product looming on the margins coast to coast. The return of busted condos and other for-sale product to the rental supply is a...

While Bolton is seeing little change in pricing in Phoenix today, he is seeing a change in the way deals are structured. "The fact that condo converters are out of the equation hasn't really...

Imagine walking into a supermarket without a pre-determined list of brand choices. You could spend countless hours deciding between ten different laundry detergents or a dozen different paper towels. Instead, shopping is efficient and...

We can hardly turn on the television or stand in a supermarket line without seeing his face on the screen or the cover of a magazine. But how much of Trump's success can be attributed...

Some began converting their own properties and a few even built new for-sale product. The profits rolled in. While the condo craze may be over for now, most of these companies have no plans...

Because they are not traded on the national stock exchanges, private REITs do not have to answer to the SEC. They are not burdened by SEC regulations and the reporting and disclosure expense that...

Since relocating its headquarters from Carlsbad, Calif., to San Juan Capistrano early this year, TPG bought an apartment property in San Diego and is progressing toward entitlements on a development in the Ontario sub-market...

Campbell soup, Coca-Cola, Juicy Fruit gum, Aunt Jemima and Quaker Oats were among the first products to be branded. But the multifamily world didn't get into the trademark game until the latter part of...

The country's fourth largest apartment REIT, known as United Dominion Realty Trust for the past 35 years, recently underwent such an image metamorphosis, shortening its name to UDR, Inc., and discarding its somewhat outdated...

"Owners and developers are conditioned to think of development sites as flat surfaces and development lots are instinctively viewed as the two-dimensional surfaces of land visually representing a potential development parcel. Once a parcel...