NAA seeks monetary damages from unlawful eviction moratorium
The National Apartment Association (NAA) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to recover damages on behalf of rental housing providers who have suffered severe economic losses under the U.S. Centers...
What’s on his Mind?
Apartment Professional catches up with Donald Trump:
AP: Why real estate?
TRUMP: My father was a developer and I learned to love the business by being around it as a child. Going to construction sites always...
Multifamily construction spending stalls in May
The Census Bureau’s latest report on construction spending shows that the value of residential construction put in place in May was up 0.2 percent from the revised level of the month before. Residential construction...
Rate Desk May 5, 2020
May 5, 2020 edition of Yield PRO TV Rate Desk with Michael Thomas. HUD requirements, a post COVID-19 world and a shift toward rental housing.
Rate Desk May 5, 2020 notes:
Indices up
Crude oil...
Rent delinquencies rise in latest Pulse Survey
The “Week 45” edition of the Census Bureau’s Pulse Survey shows that the portion of renters who are behind on their rent payments has grown since we last reported on this survey.
What is the...
2020 vision for utility management
RealPage, an international technology platform company, in conjunction with Utility Management Advisory, a national consortium of apartment energy managers, hosted the tenth annual Energy Summit at the RealPage headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The meeting...
Buy or rent your property lighting?
From the first utterance of “Let there be light,” to dramatically altering civilization with the prevalence of electricity, light has always been significant to our world.
Today, we’re a society that spends an average of...
INFOGRAPHIC: Battle of will
Launching from the bestselling 2008 book, Nudge, by Thayer and Sunstein, nudging became a cultural phenomenon. The concept assumes that behavior is better persuaded than regulated. Sounds good, but does it work?
400+ behavioral insight...
What goes wrong when the government interferes with prices
Prices are a fact of life, and so is complaining about them. You probably prefer lower prices on just about everything, but especially when buying a house or paying for college, and you wish...
New Section 8 income rule would cap rent growth for LIHTC properties
On January 9, HUD proposed changes to how they calculate Section 8 income limits. The summary of the change as posted on the Regulations.gov website read in part: “The United States Housing Act of...
Census reports on vacancies
The latest Census Bureau report on housing vacancies shows that the rental housing vacancy rate in Q4 2020 was 6.5 percent, only 0.1 percent higher than the year-earlier rate.
Big picture view
The Census Bureau report...
Technology implementation lies at the forefront of multifamily design
Undeniably, as we progress through 2021, one of the hottest trends in multifamily will continue to be technology and automation.
According to the 2019 Zillow Consumer Housing Trends Report, 43 percent of Gen Z buyers...
Why Johnny can’t build
We were once a nation of builders—from the toll roads and canals of the early nineteenth century and the railroads of the second half of that busy century, to the construction of power, energy,...
Trump Administration proposes 2021 HUD budget
President Trump announced the release of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget, “A Budget for America’s Future.” The FY21 budget seeks to provide the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with $47.9 billion...
How office politics corrupts potential
The answer is, it’s mixed. On the one hand, science has given us robust tools and powerful theories to quantify the key indicators of future career success, job performance, and leadership effectiveness. On the...