Back to basics
Over the years since George Lane founded the multifamily company in Atlanta, its platform has grown to include development, investment, asset and property management, renovation and construction of a wide variety of apartments, condos...
When Irish eyes are smiling
I shake my head in agreement because no one can win against the Irish drinking song argument. It's just one of those life-truths.
In fact, I hear Irish drinking songs every time I open a...
The big chill
Multihousing brokers are certainly feeling the pinch. During a panel discussion at the Apartments 2008 conference in Los Angeles, hosted by Real Estate Southern California and GlobeSt.com on October 2, brokers from CB Richard...
That which defines us
I can, in no way, trivialize what's happening in the financial markets or certain segments of our economy, but it is all relative. And while "It's all relative" does not make as good a...
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,...
Truth and consequences
"America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who -- with their hands, their intelligence and their heart -- built the greatest nation...
The envelope please.
The dynamic, edgy look with lots of steel and glass, concrete and brick, variations of color and texture and dramatic features like bays of different depths, overhangs, staggered roof lines and building heights and...
You da man, Sam
Multifamily, after all, is the complete package: We have the bling (Pillars). We have the style (Luxury). And we're not only good looking, we're smart (Time).
We sit at the controls of an industry that fuels...
Multifamily’s TKO
Over the past ten years, the 35-year-old Olympic gold medalist, ten- time world title holder in a record six weight classes and Grammy-nominated recording artist has been assembling a business empire known as Golden...
One punch can change everything
Association, after all, is pivotal to human existence.
We touch on the association of smell and its impact on leasing apartments in our story, "Clearing the Air," and promise a deeper dive on the topic...
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...
Parable of the Post-It
I'm rather tall, so I figured I had already won the game and sat back down with a smile.
"Now," he said, "I want you to take that same Post-In note and move it higher."
Here's...
From the ground floor up
Hard work and a passion for the business. That may sound corny, but the DeSouza brothers prove that it's true. Cal and Frank DeSouza, who currently are well underway on the conversion of four...
Sailing uncharted seas
The UCLA Anderson Forecast calls for a near-miss recession, nationally and in the nation's top performing West Coast markets, driven to the brink by the ailing single-family housing market and anemic job growth, but...
The power of perspective
The story then backs up on itself. The scene is played again, she doesn't drop her keys, and makes the train.
The plot then splits into two parallel stories: all from a point of dissection...
