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A walk in the park
The public/private landscaped garden and courtyard occupies a strip of land separating the South Group's 13-story, 176-unit Elleven and the newly completed 23-story, 311-unit...
High fiber
But one amenity everyone covets is technology, according to the Apartment Renter Technology Survey conducted early last year by the National Multi Housing Council...
Against the tide
Streets were lit only by starlight, and that was in short supply through threatening cloud cover. I could not get to the front door...
Obama’s family-friendly agenda will hurt job growth
But these are tough times. The unemployment rate, now 6.5 percent, will likely rise further as plunging retail sales lead to cutbacks in production...
The big chill
Multihousing brokers are certainly feeling the pinch. During a panel discussion at the Apartments 2008 conference in Los Angeles, hosted by Real Estate Southern...
That which defines us
I can, in no way, trivialize what's happening in the financial markets or certain segments of our economy, but it is all relative. And...
Secrets to building a happy team
Every year multifamily operators spend thousands of dollars hiring and training new staff. According to the 2007 National Apartment Survey of Compensation and Benefits...
Talking trash
The one-stop waste management and sustainability company that now takes out the trash at more than 200,000 units across the country, was founded in...
Lessons learned
Today's financial crisis is hardly that grim, though it does share some similarities with the economic collapse of the 1930s -- both were preceded...
Tin can plant gets new life as apartments
But for the past several months, neighbors have watched as workers in hard hats cleared decades worth of trash from the 80,000-square-foot building, which...
Some REITs like small
Even in the throes of what some are calling the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, some real estate investment trusts -- those...
Holding the line
Expanded to 400 pages from the three-page version that was drafted by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and rejected by the House on September 30,...
Lemons to lemonade
Such value-added plays spell success for KWMF, even in these turbulent times. A case in point is Summer House, a rental community in Alameda,...
Vacancies rise as job loss impacts renters
Job losses outweighed the increase in demand for apartments from former or would-be home owners, said Sam Chandan, chief economist of real estate research...
An inside job
Companies might be better off investing in training fresh recruits with little experience in an industry so the companies can have more control over...
