Marketing must haves
As a property management company (PMC) it’s essential to ensure you’re making the most of your localized marketing efforts. PMCs face the challenge of marketing for the corporate entity while also finding ways to...
NMHC launches new website
Across the country, many state and local elected officials are working to develop housing policies intended to address housing affordability challenges. Unfortunately, some of these officials still turn to failed or outdated policies such...
Rental fees new target for White House
The Biden administration recently announced a new component of its war on junk fees, curbing rental fees that officials assert are exacerbating housing affordability challenges.
The White House plans to focus on repeated rental application...
Software without a soul
With the release of AI tools like Bing Chat and Bard, people are starting to realize how helpful AI (artificial intelligence) can be to their daily lives. But as with most products used with...
Office to apartments
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Hybrid work is likely here to stay. This shift isn’t just changing lifestyles—it’s also affecting commercial spaces. Office vacancy rates post-COVID shot up almost overnight, and they remain near 20 percent nationwide, the...
Change the channel
Podcasts continue to grow rapidly all around the world. Podcast statistics and reports show that this medium is exploding in many countries with more listeners each year.
Podcast stats tell more about how modern consumers...
The hidden tax moves in on residents
Proponents of big government spending have desperately argued that mounting price inflation is just temporary. But multiple alarming inflation metrics came out for April and May, and examples of rising prices are clear to...
Why housing costs remain a major hurdle for lowering inflation
Housing inflation continues to be a stubborn impediment to the consumer price index (CPI) falling back to the Federal Reserve’s target.
Despite broader economic inflation cooling significantly from pandemic peaks, the shelter inflation index has...
INFOGRAPHIC: Grinding housing into votes
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Landlords rarely escape the machinations of politics. Just how far will tinkering with free markets go this election cycle?
In an election-year effort to shift responsibility for the nation’s high costs of living away...
Deal watch
Oliver Emerson Development, a father-son duo, wants to turn the former Rockford Watch Co. factory in Rockford, Illinois, into affordable housing.
“To be able to do it with my father and be able to contribute...
Household formation to fuel multifamily in 2020
Apartment production has returned to pre-recession levels and vacancies are low, but more new apartment homes are needed, according to experts participating in a press conference during the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)...
Right time. Right place.
Layoffs at American tech companies have become an opportunity for small businesses, as highly skilled workers look for new work.
Small businesses with less than 250 workers employed 58 percent of the total workforce in...
Demographic shifts in the workforce will make winners and losers
By 2030, approximately 693 million baby boomers will have reached retirement age. Meanwhile, nearly twice as many members of Generation Z—1.3 billion—will join the workforce over that time. This dramatic shift will have huge...
Multifamily faces a packed development pipeline
Apartment developers have not been shy about bringing new product to market in recent years. And early indications are that 2020 will be another boffo year. The question is after several big years of...
Happier, more connected neighborhoods
A salve for America’s loneliness epidemic could exist right in front of its homes.
Front yards are a staple of many American neighborhoods. Lush plantings, porches or trinkets can capture the attention of passersby and...
