Things to watch, what to know, in your apartment operation
Tag: Apartment Watch
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...
First Command Reports: Financial readiness key challenge for military families
Financial readiness is a key challenge for career service member families, particularly among the military spouses who bear primary responsibility for managing household finances,...
FHA extends foreclosure moratorium for Hurricane Maria victims
For the second time since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) today announced that the...
2018’s best & worst cities at money management
With 43 percent of U.S. adults grading their knowledge of personal finance a C or lower, the free credit score website WalletHub today released...
CA Ventures plans $500 million investment in European housing
Chicago-based CA Ventures today announced plans to invest $500 million over the next five years in the European housing market, specifically across the purpose-built student housing and multifamily apartment sectors. A vertically integrated owner, developer and operator of...
