Sunny skies. Great buys.
Land is sacred in Hawaii. And, going vertical makes perfect sense on an island where real estate is in finite supply. The success of the pre-sales at Pacifica Honolulu, where a ground blessing ceremony...
The art of the simplified portfolio
Would you rather have more of something worth less or less of something worth more? Execs at Denver, Colo.-based apartment REIT Aimco pondered that question as the collapse of the housing market and the...
Freddie and Fannie, how low can you go?
"The Congress really took a hard look at our industry's lobbying efforts to create a more balanced housing policy," Camden Property Trust CEO Ric Campo told analysts during the apartment REIT's Q2 earnings call,...
Risky business pays off
And, they’re expecting equally satisfying results from communities underway and in their pipelines.
Equity Residential
“There is absolutely no doubt that we continue to enjoy very strong apartment demand across our core markets,” said Equity Residential...
Sell smarter
One look at the apartment industry today quickly tells you this is not your father's business. Aided by widespread adoption of technology and driven by new standards of accountability, performance, and professionalism, the industry...
The real deal
The company's execs caught market watchers by surprise this year with the announcement at the end of January that UDR has entered into a contract to sell 25,684 apartments spread from Oregon to Delaware...
Who will save us?
One is H.R. 1935, introduced by Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) that would change the tax treatment of carried interest, or what is known in real estate as "the promote," to regular income from capital...
The problem with passion
Mike Rowe spoke with us about the skills gap—that chasm between the skills employers want employees to have and what workers actually bring to the job—several months before he was scheduled to address attendees...
Fighting the CDC eviction ban
In the midst of the COVID pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) took the unprecedented step of banning evictions nation-wide, characterizing the action as a public health measure.
The action spawned lawsuits across the...
Liberty and housing for all
The government housing specialist, whose company today operates 40,000 apartments across the country and has contracts with Uncle Sam to do complete residential makeovers at five military bases, was lured into real estate by...
Paradigm shift
The partners, who come from family-owned multifamily businesses with a combined 150 years of experience, plan to redefine the future of urban rental living by developing and managing apartment communities based on five principles:...
Absolute zero
Decades of underinvestment and underbuilding continue to deepen a national housing shortage decoupled from demand since the 1980s. This was recently underscored by a report released in June by the National Association of Realtors...
The work in hand
The rapid advance of cyber technology is rendering what was new yesterday old hat tomorrow. Internet listing services that were cutting edge a decade ago are considered outdated as potential renters go directly to...
NAHB Multifamily starts spreadin’ the news
The multifamily industry has been an important part of the 65-year- old National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) for decades. Since 1981, NAHB Multifamily has served as one of the voices of the industry. But...
Star bright, starlight
Today, the Washington, D.C. firm is largely accepted as the reigning online provider of commercial real estate (CRE) data and related services for every sector—retail, office, industrial, farm property, raw land, small businesses and,...
