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As the owner of a large portfolio of apartments across the country, Ric Campo, chairman of the board and CEO of apartment REIT Camden, has good visibility into where residents are paying rent and...

The coronavirus pandemic has hit a lot of homeowners hard. Over the past 10 months, millions of Americans have struggled with income loss and depleted their savings accounts in an effort to stay afloat....

College enrollment generally skyrockets in diametric opposition to tumbling GDP, meaning student housing is, in theory, a recession-proof asset class. There have been different factors at play during this pandemic-spawned economic downturn, so is...

While vacancy rates have increased this year, they are still well below the long-term average of 5.2 percent to 5.4 percent. National apartment vacancy rates are rising, but a new multifamily report from Moody’s Analytics...

Prices are a fact of life, and so is complaining about them. You probably prefer lower prices on just about everything, but especially when buying a house or paying for college, and you wish...

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) defines excellence in the multifamily home industry. For over two decades this recognition has noted the “significant achievements in the design, development, marketing and management of multifamily...

And in despair I bowed my head: There is no peace on earth, I said, For hate is strong, and mocks the song Of peace on earth, good will to men. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1864 written during the Civil...

Developers aren’t waiting for a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. They have been busy planning projects to build new apartments, even as doctors diagnose new infections in the U.S. at a rate of more...

The digital world has created a paradigm shift for the apartment industry, allowing resident-facing tasks like property tours and unit inspections, lease signings and rent payments to be handled virtually via mobile apps and...

Missed rent payments are stacking up across the country, threatening an unthinkable crisis when eviction moratoriums currently in place expire. To make matters worse, many renters are accumulating massive late fees that compound their...

A recently completed study from NAHB found that—even after accounting for employment growth, density, rent growth and local place-specific factors—the supply of housing grew faster when rent-control restrictions were loosened in California’s rent-controlled cities. The...

Voters in California rejected a measure on November 3, 2020, that would have overturned a hard-fought compromise over rent control in one of the most expensive rental housing markets in the nation. Proposition 21 would...

The timing is right for multihousing to adopt smart building technology and services. Ironically, by coming later to the party than commercial real estate, multihousing is in a good position to do it once...

With such an eventful year coming to end, it’s difficult to know where to begin. The knock-on effects of the global pandemic we still find ourselves in have reverberated throughout the global economy, including...

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, multifamily occupancy is up. Memphis, Tennessee, is seeing rising rents, and cap rates for apartment assets in Detroit have spiked. Months into a pandemic that eradicated many of the perks of...