Courting their kids
While Bill Donges allows that the preferences of a small group of Lane Company interns can hardly be considered the standard for the entire cohort of more than 80 million children of the baby...
Lunar power in the Big Apple
The company's founders hope to see the turbines they've created to harness tidal power someday be available to other communities near similar tidally-driven and free-flowing waterways around the globe.
Verdant was incorporated in 2000 by...
The risks and rewards of dynamic pricing
But factor in the human element—as any smart business person will—and you can see any number of reasons to be afraid: Am I reducing the market value of my product? Am I angering my...
EQR goes sky-high
Nearly 1,000 of those new units are located in a couple of skyscrapers with views of the Statue of Liberty in the New York City metro, the market that currently is generating the highest...
Who’s really listening?
Your own team. They couldn't care less about ringing rhetoric quotable by future generations. They want to know whether to update their resumes or renew their commitment to the work.
U.S. President Barack Obama is...
Smokers face rental hurdles
One category, however, turned up very lean results: apartments that advertised they allowed smoking with an enthusiastic "welcome" or even a tepid "O.K."
In all five boroughs, there were only four.
"If you're looking for a...
Work related stress in America
But there are ways to reduce its impact on human lives and companies' bottom line, even though stress is a daunting, pervasive problem, experts say. A recent survey of 2,500 employees by ComPsych, a...
Secrets to building a happy team
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...
Congressional power grab for multihousing
Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) attached an amendment that would allow the federal government to prematurely force apartment properties into bankruptcy and then sell them at a lower price to an entity that agrees to...
How emotional judo can help you take control of every conflict
Try emotional judo. That advice comes from Ron Kaufman, author of the bestseller Uplifting Service: The Proven Path to Delighting Your Customers, Colleagues, and Everyone Else You Meet.
“If you watch judo, it’s the opposite...
Business analytics seeing huge demand, outpacing talent
A survey out the first of December, by the EMC Corporation, is showing that nearly one-third of companies across the globe are able to use new data to aid in business decisions and reveal...
Market pulse
The latest reports from industry associations and the annual report on the state of the nation's housing from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University all point to a strengthening apartment market...
Real estate investors look to the future and see it’s time to buy apartment...
Equity Residential, a REIT, recently bought 777 Sixth Avenue, a 32-story tower at Avenue of the Americas and 27th Street in Chelsea.
"We stepped up, swallowed hard and plunged in," said Neithercut, whose Equity Residential...
Why Wiring Matters
Baseball, hotdogs and a Saturday afternoon at the ballpark. Life couldn't get any simpler. That is, until you observe the person sitting next to you order another beer with his wireless handheld device, or...
Supply and demand in multifamily
For more than a decade, those opportunities have been plentiful. There has been a heightened demand for apartments that was made larger by a significant undersupply. Will that trend continue? Here’s what we know.
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