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Apartmentalize roundup: Maintenance as cost saver, operations help close deals
The quest for savings at multifamily properties kicked up a notch at June’s National Apartment Association’s Apartmentalize conference in Philadelphia. Managing expectations: maintenance Maintenance, an essential...
Building permits for apartments declined nearly 30 percent since pandemic
Persistently high interest rates are restricting the ability of businesses to borrow money to invest in real estate construction. Fewer builders are seeking building permits...
The sticky combination of heat and high humidity
Extreme weather alerts in a community communications program is an operational baseline. Extreme weather warnings can help residents understand their risk and protect themselves,...
Office to apartments
download pdf Hybrid work is likely here to stay. This shift isn’t just changing lifestyles—it’s also affecting commercial spaces. Office vacancy rates post-COVID shot up...
Seven trends reshaping the workplace
Where and how we work has changed a lot in the past several years. Collectively, we’ve experienced some of the most significant and far-reaching changes...
Rents fall behind inflation
Tracking rents is important for understanding the dynamics of the housing market. For example, the sharp increase in rents helped me deduce that there...
Market demand sets stage for few rent hikes
While asking rents for new leases nationally are running nearly flat over the past 12 months, those figures are heavily influenced by the Sunbelt,...
Economics and the hidden order
The “real world” is calling. But the real world is a real mess. So how do we clean up the mess? That’s a massive...
Creating habits in an age of distraction
There’s no doubt that we are more distracted than ever in our age of screens. Everything from the latest news on social media to...
Major U.S. Supreme Court decisions coming down the track MAJOR UPDATE
June 28, 2024 Update: The Supreme Court in an unprecedented victory for multifamily and other businesses, has today reversed its 40-year-old decision in Chevron...
Lawyers take big government to the Supreme Court
“We all get to vote, but the ability to make legislation is no longer in the hands of the people we elect,” Columbia law...
Bozzuto acquires Gables property
Over the last decade and a half, it has made much more sense for Bozzuto to build rather than buy apartments. However, as it...
The incredible disappearing Starwood CRE investor
The $10 billion fund from Starwood Capital Group has been trying to preserve its available cash and credit by limiting investor redemptions. In the...
Investors circle overleveraged apartments
Rescue capital is available for apartment borrowers that need it, but relatively few owners of over-leveraged apartment properties are willing to pay the price—so...
How to assess a resident’s request for an emotional support animal
Multifamily housing providers are faced with increasing requests from residents with disabilities for emotional support animals (ESA). Requests for ESAs are generating more enforcement...
