Dialing in the ILS pipeline
Because multifamily marketing directors have limited budgets, they hope the resultant data and their call-tracking systems, which allow them to listen to calls and separate qualified from unqualified leads, will give them a clear...
The big deal
The price excludes transaction costs but includes the assumption of more than $8 billion of debt and $60.75 per share in cash to shareholders, which represents a 22.7 percent premium to the closing price...
The highlight of my career
Interviewing Donald Trump was a highlight of my publishing career. The Trump brand is one of the most luxurious in the world. His multifamily properties are legendary. In the AP interview, we focused on...
The value of a road
A growing movement of local governments and communities across the United States is beginning to grapple with an unfortunate realization: The highway boom of the 1950s and ‘60s produced a massive amount of infrastructure...
Lead-to-leasing grows up
As the customer relationship management (CRM) revolution gathers velocity, apartment operators take a closer look at cloud-based solutions designed to manage the entire lifecycle of the renter.
Opportunities to enhance revenue by providing a better...
Back to the future: loss of power
At a time when the nation was facing a severe energy crisis, this 323,000 sq. ft. structure was a beacon of light illuminating the future. Using an air-type collector system, it had a total...
Room with a view
Katie Graham moved into a new apartment in Nashville, Tennessee, for its gym, rooftop deck with heated pool, and the bars and restaurants in the neighborhood below. She didn't mind the size of the...
Beat the market performance
Consider what ROI you need to initiate retrofits. With banks paying 1 to 3 percent, and stocks showing 8 percent to 10 percent, what ROIs can you anticipate with water and energy retrofits? During...
What do you believe?
I found the chirping crickets a curious sound effect after Carvey gushingly asked, "how about that President Obama?" I'm thinking the audience probably just didn't hear the question.
I must have missed the Barney Frank...
Be fearless
The value of stuff
Ambiently determining the value of stuff may be our newest religion.
It may or may not include free and fair market, inherent worth, or supply and demand. Generally, it’s complicated, debated and...
The election is over. Now what?
On January 20, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. It will mark the conclusion of an unprecedented and unparalleled election season that also saw the...
Land of the free. Home of the brave.
It then describes the qualifications to become a member of our nation's military elite: "a focused, agile mind, astute awareness, physical toughness. That's what it takes to be part of the Army Special Forces."
Within...
FCC blocks part of San Francisco’s first-in-nation broadband law
The Federal Communications Commission voted to preempt part of a San Francisco city law that prevents property owners from denying internet service providers access to existing wiring within multiunit buildings.
The provision of the San...
The death of the small apartment building
Developers in the U.S. built 358,000 units of new multifamily housing in 2017. That’s less than half the number of single-family homes built last year, but the gap between the two has narrowed a...
Biden reinstitutes Obama policies
Long before coronavirus and lockdowns, millions of U.S. households suffered from a shortage of housing that pushed rents higher and outpaced wage growth.
Now the U.S. is beginning to recover from the pandemic and ensuing...
