Sam Miller is why this industry is amazing
At present, he is co-chairman emeritus of Forest City Enterprises, Inc., headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. With nearly $12 billion in assets, the National Multi Housing Council's (NMHC) Top 50 Owners list ranks Miller's company...
Gays/lesbians inch toward becoming protected class
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has introduced a new rule intended to ensure equal access to the department's core housing programs for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
HUD...
Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts fastest-growing jobs
Assuming a full-employment economy with an unemployment rate of 5.2 percent by 2020, the BLS expects total U.S. employment to rise 14.3 percent over the current decade, resulting in 20.5 million new jobs. The...
Fire the customer
Obviously, any business would like to be "better" according to its customers' preferences. And eventually, someone inevitably says: "Why don't we just ask the customers what they want?" But the idea that customer input...
Are you learning as fast as the world is changing?
What goes for novelists goes for leaders searching to craft a novel strategy for their company, a new product for their customers, or a better way to organize their employees. In a world that...
What then, after the darkness?
After several Websites, including Wikipedia, protested by going dark, both pieces of legislation were shelved. Meanwhile, proponents of the two bills—News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch among them—rallied in support.
But the core issues addressed in...
Is multifamily ready for big data?
The amount of information being gathered, stored, and now mined, for commercial use can be confounding to the the human mind. Compound this with the fact that all of this data is unique, though...
Gas prices to rise again
Prices could spike another 60 cents or more by May. "I think it's going to be a chaotic spring, with huge price increases in some places," says Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information...
MF mortgage originations jump
The Mortgage Bankers Association said its quarterly survey shows a steep increase in commercial lending driven by higher originations for industrial and multifamily property types.
Loans for industrial properties rose 43 percent from a year...
Creating sustainable performance
So what does it mean to be happy in your job? It's not about contentment, which connotes a degree of complacency. When we and our research partners at the Ross School of Business's Center...
Positive intelligence
We have been studying the links between employee engagement and customer loyalty for a few years now, and we've found that the only route to employee happiness that also benefits shareholders is through a...
Turning foreclosures into rentals
GTIS Partners will spend $1 billion by 2016 acquiring single-family homes to manage as rentals, Thomas Shapiro, the fund's founder said. That followed announcements this month that GI Partners, a Menlo Park private equity...
Why you won’t quit your job
And when we bumped into each other last week, I found her toiling away in exactly the same role, still dreaming of her nonprofit venture, but now more depressed than ever.
Why can't Susan leave...
How leaders kill meaning at work
As a senior executive, you may think you know what job number one is: developing a killer strategy. In fact, this is only Job 1a. You have a second, equally important task. Call it...
Forest City shifts focus to core markets, selling land portfolio
David J. LaRue, president and CEO of the Cleveland-based company, said the push will lay "a foundation for accelerated value creation." The disclosure is aimed at increasing transparency and aiding investors in assessing Forest...
