Friday, February 28, 2025

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Multihousing has recovered 70 percent with outlook strong: NAHB

The market for multifamily housing has recovered "substantially" since 2010 and is around 70 percent of the way back to a sustainable level, NAHB said. "Last year was a banner year for the multifamily market,...

Gallup on the ropes

But lately, Gallup's name has been tarnished by a whistle-blower lawsuit and a suspension from winning federal contracts. Gallup's roots stretch back to 1922, when its founder, George Gallup, was a college junior. He got...

It’s a mod, mod world

Two years ago, Bruce Ratner sought to ease a shrinking budget and appease swarms of critics who lambasted the original rendering for a residential tower at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn as a "Lego-like" atrocity. Like...

Beware of comfort dog

Attorney Tarin S. Hale calls it extortion. In October, an elderly Ohio landlord was ordered to pay $22,000 in damages for alleged housing discrimination practices at a rental she owns. Hale then received a bill...

Made in America holidays

I was mesmerized. I opened and closed the book, slowly, gently, considering the long and arduous process required to publish a book back then. I thought about the person who read it first. I...

iPerks: How Apple seeks to woo employees

These perks, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal, include new discounts on Apple products, a program that matches employees' personal charitable contributions up to a set amount, and "Blue Sky," which...

The big split

Equity Residential and AvalonBay will together pay $2.69 billion in cash along with stock valued at $3.8 billion, N.Y.-based Lehman announced. The buyers, the two biggest U.S. apartment landlords by market value, will also...

Even more shades of grey

The number of centenarians worldwide will double by 2023, and double again by 2035. Projections suggest life expectancy will surpass 100 in some industrialized countries by the second half of this century-roughly triple the...

The dark side of charisma

However, the short-term benefits of charisma are often neutralized by its long-term consequences. There are big reasons to resist charisma: Charisma dilutes judgment. There are only three ways to influence others: force, reason, or charm....

Expert: more people becoming workaholics

Eda Kalkay had everything she needed to walk down the aisle. But she is such a "workaholic" that she worked on her wedding day and then tried to tuck her smart phone into her...

Don’t worry, be happy

"We think that an improving single-family market is a good thing for the apartment markets and the economy as a whole," Camden Property Trust CEO Ric Campo said at the beginning of November. "Single-family and...

In it to win it

Setting objectives For any type of employee incentive program, your property management team must feel the goals are attainable and realistic. An incentive program should also fit into your company's overall business strategy and be...

Multifamily REITs look beyond primary markets

When deciding whether to let their money ride on Washington, D.C., or Baltimore, Md., Home Properties is going with Baltimore. When deciding whether job growth will be stronger in larger or smaller markets, Mid-America Apartment...

Cranes on the horizon

In more evidence that the single-family housing recovery is strengthening, U.S. builders in October started construction on the most homes and apartments since July 2008, according to Commerce Department numbers. Apartment construction, more volatile...

Construction heat map: where next?

But if the Census numbers are any guide, most of these new households-students graduating from college, adult children moving out of their parents' basements, singles moving into new homes as they get married-will move...
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