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The $10 billion fund from Starwood Capital Group has been trying to preserve its available cash and credit by limiting investor redemptions. In the first quarter, the fund was hit with $1.3 billion in...

Rescue capital is available for apartment borrowers that need it, but relatively few owners of over-leveraged apartment properties are willing to pay the price—so far. High interest rates have stranded the owners of over-leveraged apartment...

Multifamily housing providers are faced with increasing requests from residents with disabilities for emotional support animals (ESA). Requests for ESAs are generating more enforcement actions. In 2020, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...

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...

Restricting the price of housing kills incentives to supply places to live. Rent control is having something of a moment: In Los Angeles, tenants are invoking a law that imposes limits on apartments built on...

Plaintiffs argue that the Department of Energy has no legal authority to impose its own water use limits on energy-consuming home appliances. The federal regulations that make dishwashers and washing machines worse are also illegal....

Rising interest rates, tighter lending and flattening rents in parts of the country have left property companies from California to Florida waiting for financing that may not come soon. +500 days (up 45% from 2019)...

^58 percent increase in requested quotes to thousands of appliance repair businesses y/y (2022-2023) ^43 percent increase in appliance spend in 2023 compared to 2013—rising from $390 to $558 over the decade Why? 1987. Home appliances...

Disparate impact of high interest rates has adversely impacted millions of low- and middle-income families—and housing providers. More often high interest rates depress stock and housing prices, and other asset values— impacting all income...

Technology is engineered toward empowering individuals, not government. Therein lies the problem. From the Gutenberg press to automobiles to a networked world enabling people to work remotely, history’s greatest innovations—in some way great or small—liberate...

With national elections around the corner, some of the nation’s largest apartment companies are facing antitrust litigation over usage of a product that has become increasingly important to the industry since the first multifamily...

RealPage breaks silence in response to allegations of price fixing levied by renters' groups and the U.S. Department of Justice, releasing a statement that tells "the real story." The statement is a response...

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Pillars of the Industry award winners are in. Yield Pro is honored to present the nation’s best. Best high-rise apartment community 10 stories plus Carlyle Crossing Alexandria, Virginia 18-STORY • 741 UNITS •...

download pdf 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...

download pdf Lockdowns were the beginning of the end of office space as we’ve known it for over four decades. Work from home spurred vacancies expected to rise through 2025. The 2022 Fed interest rate...