Come together right now
From the minute you meet Natalie, you know she is meant for greatness. She exudes poise and strength, well beyond her years. And she is determined.
Jeff Stack, managing director of Sares-Regis, is a multifamily...
Time-of-use rates sparks new debate about customer and grid impacts
Momentum is slowly building behind new rate designs that focus on customer costs and meeting system needs, but some say it’s too slow.
Pilot programs have shown smartly designed residential time-of-use (TOU) and other time...
Apartment market weathers the storm of new supply
Apartment landlords can no longer raise rents like they used to. So many new apartment units are opening that the vacancy rate is inching higher across the country.
This year “will likely remain challenging for...
Apartment investors dig data
Utility management and benchmarking systems help property managers avoid fees, make smart investments and comply with the law.
Here’s one way to pay a lot less for power and water at apartment properties—stop paying late...
Making a big move
Nearly two years into the remote work revolution, it’s easy to feel that a lifetime has passed. However, the reality is we are just at the beginning of seeing the impact of remote work....
How to stop saying “um,” “ah,” and “you know”
When we find ourselves rattled while speaking—whether we’re nervous, distracted, or at a loss for what comes next—it’s easy to lean on filler words. These may give us a moment to collect our thoughts...
Love, actually
Fresh off the clipboards, the National Multihousing Council (NMHC)/Kingsley Associates 2015 Apartment Resident Preferences Survey is out. Findings were calculated from 120,000 responses across the country and covered renter’s preferences on in-home features, community...
iPerks: How Apple seeks to woo employees
These perks, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal, include new discounts on Apple products, a program that matches employees' personal charitable contributions up to a set amount, and "Blue Sky," which...
Workforce rentals CRE’s ‘darling’
As the U.S. economy continues its longest-ever expansion, the labor market is making history, as well, with the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years. That’s great news for investors looking for compelling return opportunities...
SFFR up their game
According to new data from the current Single-Family Rental Market Index (SFRMI) by the National Rental Home Council (NRHC) and John Burns Real Estate Consulting (JBREC), homes built for the purpose of renting—build-for-rent homes—accounted...
Consider the alternative
The pandemic has made large cash deposits a financial burden for some residents seeking to relocate. Providing alternatives to security deposits makes move-in more accessible and reduces long-term risk across multifamily portfolios.
Some state and...
The great disappeared
The state remains one of the most unequal in the nation—one that has both billions of dollars in Silicon Valley and rampant homelessness. The Golden State’s efforts to eliminate poverty instead accentuates it, and...
Waiting to exhale
Yet, Congress has been consumed over the past year with those things at the bottom of Americans' priority list: reducing health care costs (57 percent), providing health insurance to the uninsured (49 percent) and...
Spycatcher: An ex-FBI agent on deception, espionage, interrogation, and reading people
Perhaps she learned it from her mother or perhaps from her classical training in ballet, but she instinctively read my body language and used that to communicate back to me. There hasn't been a...
Same assets. Better performance.
Revenue management has been an indispensable price optimization tool in multifamily since the launch of Lease Rent Optimizer (LRO) and YieldStar 15 years ago, both developed in conjunction with large multifamily property REITs and...
