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The inability of developers to access traditional capital markets remains a significant issue. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) estimates that the current historically-low level of multifamily starts—less than a third of the...

Let's start with a quick history lesson. From 1978 until the end of 2007, the annual housing starts nationwide (single-family and multifamily units) averaged about 1,544,000 annually. In 2008, housing starts dropped below a...

The real precedent was set with the 1998 multi-state tobacco settlement of $365.5 billion. Tobacco is a legal substance. In the mafia, this is called a shake down. If the government can attack one...

The mainly bi-coastal apartment REIT broke ground for two new apartment projects in Q4 2009. The 219-unit, $36 million second phase of Avalon Northborough, in a suburb about 22 miles west of Boston got...

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...

"With their stocks battered over the past several years, REITs could sell a building for a lot less on a yield basis then what they could turn around and buy their own stock for....

The company has been taking advantage of weakness in the apartment market, buying recently constructed Class A apartment and condo product with more than 100 units in core locations and uncompleted busted condo properties,...

"Those were the areas of difficulty for Wallick," said Feusse, who began working as a consultant for the 44-year-old affordable multihousing company in May 2005. Discipline and focus, along with the strong belief that a...

At least part of the explanation for the rise in real estate's standing in the 2010 survey is pretty obvious, thinks Mission Capital Advisors' David Tobin: the outlook today compared to a year ago,...

The most irritating or disruptive things about a job may have nothing to do with too much work or boring assignments. Sometimes what gets your goat is the annoying habits of the person at...

The past year has brought layoffs, furloughs, pay freezes, increased health care costs and heavier workloads. And it's starting to eat at you. You can't control these factors, but there are things you can do...

How does government support for home-ownership compare with government support for renting? Cino: Federal home-ownership subsidies outnumber rental support 4 to 1 or about $230 billion to the renters' $60 billion. If subsidies were adjusted...

Attention, multitaskers (if you can pay attention, that is): Your brain may be in trouble. People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch...

Was it wise to accept a colleague or higher-up as a "friend" to begin with? And—perhaps more importantly—in this day and age, when people are seemingly available around the clock because of smartphones and...

Instead, she got a big dose of something new: happiness coaching. Keynote speaker Shawn Achor—a former Harvard University researcher and former co-teacher of one of the university's most popular courses, Positive Psychology—extolled 90 listening...