Things to watch, what to know, in your apartment operation
Tag: Apartment Watch
Apartment industry statement on the passage of the Omnibus Spending Bill
Statement from the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) and National Apartment Association (NAA) on passage of the Omnibus Spending Bill. “The National Multifamily Housing Council and...
February new home sales flat after upward revisions to prior months
Sales of newly built, single-family homes remained virtually unchanged, inching down 0.6 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 618,000 units after upward...
Racing to the dealership: Baby Boomers and Millennials show off their credit savvy in...
When consumers need loans for auto purchases, understanding their own credit risk situation matters. In its latest consumer automotive survey, Equifax Inc., a global...
Budget accord misses the mark on affordable housing
Randy Noel, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a custom home builder from LaPlace, La., today issued the following statement on the...
2018’s cities with the highest and lowest credit scores
With tax season coming up and people evaluating their spending and debts more closely, the personal-finance website WalletHub analyzed the median credit scores of...
2018’s most and least innovative states
With the U.S. projected to spend $553 billion on research and development in 2018 and multiple cities vying to become the location of Amazon’s HQ2,...
2018 WalletHub Tax Survey
With the tax deadline drawing near, the personal-finance website WalletHub followed up on its 2018 Tax Rates by State report with an in-depth analysis...
Fed rate hike report: $1.6 billion in extra costs and cities with the least...
With credit card debt recently hitting an all-time high and the Federal Reserve set to make our debt even more expensive with another rate...
Multifamily drop pushes total housing starts down as single-family makes gains
A decline in multifamily starts pushed overall housing production down 7.0 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.24 million units,...
HUD and Census Bureau report residential construction activity in February 2018
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Census Bureau jointly announced the following new residential construction statistics for February...
Next week’s interest-rate decision: How could the Federal Reserve act—and why?
Dwight Johnston, chief economist for the California Credit Union League, made the following comments on next week’s Federal Reserve announcement of short-term monetary policy...
Regulatory horror story highlights need to reform permitting process
Illustrating how the federal regulatory system has run amok and the need for Congress to pass legislation to fix a broken permitting process, a...
Builder confidence remains on solid footing in March
Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes edged down one point to a level of 70 in March from a downwardly revised...
New research confirms apartments outperform across time, geography and market conditions
Apartments outperform other commercial real estate property types, on both a risk-adjusted and unadjusted basis, regardless of holding period, geographic region, metro size, and...
HUD and city of Houston reach fair housing agreement
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the City of Houston today announced a joint agreement designed to expand housing choice...
