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The nation’s best
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) defines excellence in the multifamily home industry. For over two decades this recognition has noted the “significant...
The weary world rejoices
And in despair I bowed my head: There is no peace on earth, I said, For hate is strong, and mocks the song Of peace on earth,...
The world didn’t end—developers keep building
Developers aren’t waiting for a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. They have been busy planning projects to build new apartments, even as doctors diagnose...
Risky business
The digital world has created a paradigm shift for the apartment industry, allowing resident-facing tasks like property tours and unit inspections, lease signings and...
Preventing a looming crisis
Missed rent payments are stacking up across the country, threatening an unthinkable crisis when eviction moratoriums currently in place expire. To make matters worse,...
NAHB: reduced rent control means more housing
A recently completed study from NAHB found that—even after accounting for employment growth, density, rent growth and local place-specific factors—the supply of housing grew...
The fight over rental control is not over
Voters in California rejected a measure on November 3, 2020, that would have overturned a hard-fought compromise over rent control in one of the...
The time is right for whole-building intelligence
The timing is right for multihousing to adopt smart building technology and services. Ironically, by coming later to the party than commercial real estate,...
Multifamily resilience
With such an eventful year coming to end, it’s difficult to know where to begin. The knock-on effects of the global pandemic we still...
Follow the renter
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, multifamily occupancy is up. Memphis, Tennessee, is seeing rising rents, and cap rates for apartment assets in Detroit have spiked. Months...
Digital: the key to success
In the world of property management, localization is essential. COVID-19 has pushed the property management industry to move to digital and local, and that change...
Modernizing the parking experience
Due to the pandemic, the world has rapidly changed and industries are looking for ways to adapt their revenue strategies to meet the evolving...
Why Biden’s plan to help make housing affordable will make it more expensive
Because the 2020 election was largely a referendum on President Donald Trump, many of Joe Biden’s policy proposals have been overlooked until now. The...
Suburban rise
Desperate landlords now offer as much as three months free rent to potential renters at new, Manhattan apartment towers. “There is a considerable amount of...
That upon which you focus, becomes your reality
A ship once found itself lost at sea. After a time, the crew’s drinking water ran seriously low. The parched sailors were certain they...
