Man on a multifamily mission
Considine has held a variety of leadership positions in the business and political arenas and continues to run several companies, while still devoting time to philanthropic activities.
He was drawn to the multifamily industry while...
From sea to shining sea
The winners of top honors in the National Association of Home Builders’ 2019 Pillars of the Industry competition are providing new housing for military service personnel and university students, affordable apartments for low-income residents...
One is the loneliest number
Research shows it’s terrible for our health; it diminishes cognitive performance and the immune system, increases the risk of heart disease and dementia and hastens early death. And the psychological effects are just as...
The trillion dollar consolidation
The returns that large-scale single-family rentals (SFR) are producing are now measuring up to institutional standards and the management is under control. It wasn’t pretty, but the naysayers who said it was impossible to...
How Californians have weaponized environmental law
By any reasonable metric, the empty lot on the corner of First and Lorena Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles is a natural place to build housing. With a bus stop...
The incredible shrinking workforce
Now, a big caveat: That big October drop in participation could have been skewed slightly by the government shutdown. The official household survey counted 720,000 people as leaving the labor force in October, but...
Wind at our back
The new tax system, which was reformed for the first time in 32 years in December, strips away some of the long-standing benefits that would incentivize Americans to become homeowners.
“This is definitely a tailwind...
Apartment IQ
The emerging mechanization promises benefits to property owners and managers of apartment communities, including energy cost savings, possible incentives from insurance companies and housing authorities for development, resident attraction and retention and water and...
I’m afraid to blink.
Never before has the world been safer, freer, wealthier, or healthier.
In 2014, 54 percent of the nation’s counties had zero murders and more than half of last year’s murders occurred in only two percent...
Risky business
The digital world has created a paradigm shift for the apartment industry, allowing resident-facing tasks like property tours and unit inspections, lease signings and rent payments to be handled virtually via mobile apps and...
What’s in the cards for apartments?
After seven years of rising construction, rents and occupancy, the apartment building boom is finally showing signs of flattening.
The slight dip in multifamily starts in the first half of 2016 might indicate that rampant...
Digital weapons in the apartment amenities race
The amenities arms race. That is what the real estate industry loves to call the escalating level of services offered by apartment buildings. For decades in the country’s hottest luxury rental markets, property owners...
Walking tall
Of course, there are some obligatory qualifiers for that optimism. Most economists continue to project sustained moderate growth; but if a national recession takes root, that changes everything. And gone are the days of...
The cost of regulation on housing affordability
Some are looking to quick fixes that have been proven to not work, like rent control, while others are getting creative and combining public and private sector funding to help underwrite rents.
What most of...
History repeats itself
It’s happening again.
Once, knowledge was sequestered away on manuscripts in Monasteries only to be set free by the printing press. Suddenly, the Renaissance. The Reformation. The Industrial Revolution.
Men read, collaborated and created. Our modern...
