Things to watch, what to know, in your apartment operation
Tag: Apartment Watch
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...
Secretary Ben Carson’s open letter to HUD Employees
Dear Colleagues, By now, many of you may have read media accounts indicating that we’ve changed HUD’s mission statement and that these changes signal some...
Credit card debt sets all-time record after $92 billion increase in 2017
U.S. consumers racked up $92.2 billion in credit card debt during 2017, pushing outstanding balances past $1 trillion for the first time ever, according...
Professional property managers have selected BlueInk’s revolutionary eSigning platform to execute HR and legal...
The National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM®) and BlueInk announced their partnership with the goal of expediting and better securing the workflow of...
Statement from NAHB Chairman Randy Noel on Senate Banking Bill
Randy Noel, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a custom home builder from LaPlace, La., today issued the following statement...
